Lecturer

Overview

Key skills:

• A Higher Degree(PhD/DPhil/MD) in a relevant field (preferable)
• Higher education teaching qualification such as a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (preferable, some institutions may expect you to undertake one once a role is secured)
• Subject expertise
• Experience teaching, and delivering lectures to undergraduate students and beyond
• Well-developed communication skills, both written and oral, to engage and guide students.
• Able to organise workload and manage competing demands on your time

Typical job titles: Lecturer, Subject Lecturer, Teaching Fellow, Tutor

Being a lecturer is probably what comes to mind for most of the public when asked who works in a university. The key role of a lecturer is to teach their specialist subject to undergraduate and/or postgraduate students, helping them to gain knowledge and inspiring them to be interested in the subject.

In practice, the work of a lecturer, depending on the level, is likely to combine teaching, research and some administration/management. Producing and publishing original research is an important part of the role in many cases.

As the titles above suggest, you can be a lecturer at different levels (ranging from junior to senior or even principal).