Timeline for Job offer for UK Reader
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| Dec 29, 2019 at 0:28 | comment | added | Virgo | I think to write that "You'll have less teaching than the US anyway" is very institution dependent and cannot be stated with any confidence unless you know which are the two institutions. | |
| Dec 28, 2019 at 18:38 | comment | added | GrotesqueSI | Ahh I see. Yes. I'm far, far from finance or the likes. That world is unknown to me. I can see what you mean. I presume the OP isn't in such a field. | |
| Dec 28, 2019 at 18:35 | comment | added | dothyphendot | If your department is in a field where this is normal then you may pay everyone more than the standard scale in such a way that you can still maintain distinctions in rank based on achievement/contribution. But, my impression is that this practice is limited to some institutions and some subjects. | |
| Dec 28, 2019 at 18:32 | comment | added | dothyphendot | jobs.lse.ac.uk/… | |
| Dec 28, 2019 at 18:26 | comment | added | GrotesqueSI | I've never heard of such a thing. Perhaps it is a reflection of my subject. However, I don't understand why someone who is getting professor-level pay wouldn't be made a professor. What's the point of keeping them as Reader but paying them as a professor? | |
| Dec 28, 2019 at 18:19 | comment | added | dothyphendot | It’s not true that they can’t offer more to a reader. In some subjects “market supplements” are common, and these are sometimes large. The reason stated (that they want to avoid a pay anomaly) seems plausible to me. Having one reader being paid twice , say, what all the others make will be costly to morale. | |
| Dec 28, 2019 at 16:08 | comment | added | GrotesqueSI | @NoahSnyder "the UK is barely going to have grants post-Brexit" that's certainly true and is exactly why I'm leaving. | |
| Dec 28, 2019 at 15:19 | comment | added | Noah Snyder | Higher ranks are an advantage when there are fixed salary ranges, but I don’t see why they’re an advantage otherwise. Most of what you list seem obviously like disadvantages (increased administrative responsibilities). The research council point may be relevant in the UK, but in the US assistant professors aren’t at a significant disadvantage for grants, and at any rate the UK is barely going to have grants post-Brexit. | |
| Dec 28, 2019 at 11:47 | history | edited | GrotesqueSI | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 28, 2019 at 9:17 | history | edited | GrotesqueSI | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 28, 2019 at 9:16 | comment | added | GrotesqueSI | Note, if you find that they have offered you something on the low end of the Reader salary range, you can ask to go up a few pay spines. That's certainly an acceptable request. | |
| Dec 28, 2019 at 9:08 | history | answered | GrotesqueSI | CC BY-SA 4.0 |