21st December 2006, 12:43 AM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by 1man1desk
Posted by BAJR Host:Quote:quote:Lecturer A (roughly a Project Officer) or G5 are starting on c. £29,300 (G5 = 18450 minimum )Not sure at all about those comparisons. A lecturer, for instance, would normally expect to have a PhD and a number of good published research papers (not limited to excavation reports) before appointment, and how many Project Officers can say that?
Research asst (like a junior supervisor ) or G3/4 are starting on roughly 21k (G4 = 16137 minimum )
Bear in mind as well that a lecturer will normally have been a post-Doctoral Research Fellow (or some similar title), not a research assistant, before appointment to teaching staff. Shifting from the full-time research grades to teaching grades often involves a pay cut - i.e. they may drop down to the scale you indicate.
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Sorry if I am getting bogged down, and maybe I am misreading 1man's intention, but I have to say that while a project officer may not have the same level of publications, there are many other areas of responsibility that a project officer has that a lecturer simply does not. This includes implementing onourous health and safety plans, being responsible for projects worth much more than your average research grant year in and year out, undertaking a high level of client liaison in a high pressure commercial environment to name but a few. I am not saying that a lecturer would not have to explain themselves to a granting committee, or be responsible for the safety of students etc...but the same scaling that 1man applies to a project officers report writing when compared to published research papers can be applied in turn to these other factors that many project officer's deal with, with which many lecturers only do in a limited capacity.
So I would argue that the comparison is in fact justified - though I am of course open to debate on this....
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