tenure and other issues for country-hopping professionals

[biascut]

Hiya. I'm in my fourth year of my PhD at a UK university, which means I don't get any more funding and I have to hand in by September. (I could theoretically enter the job market now, but the advice I've been getting from my supervisor and my peers who are a few years ahead of me is to get the damn thing written and handed in, and then go on the

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[nesf]

There is no such thing as tenure per se in Ireland anyway. You are either offered a permanent contract or temporary contract (a year or whatever). There is no tenure track or time limit in which to prove yourself (well, formally at least). But then there are salary caps and such within the permanent job structure that you need to "get over". You might be stuck for years at the same wage level until you get made statutory etc.

UCC Academic Vacancies: http://www.ucc.ie/en/hr/EmploymentOpportunities/AcademicVacancies/

[biascut]

Thanks - I'm living in Dublin at the moment with my Irish girlfriend (who's also completing her PhD), so I'm fairly familiar with the Irish system, although I'm much more into knowing the precise details of the salary structure, pensions and union situation than she is!

Lots of the Irish vacancies come up on jobs.ac.uk actually, and I would seriously love to get something here and be able to stay in Dublin. But academia is not exactly the best profession in the world for being able to pick and choose where you want to live, especially in the early stages.

[nesf]

Tell me about it. My partner is finishing her PhD in Irish and looking to work as a lecturer, I'm further down the studies ladder and the odds of the two of us getting work in the same university in this country are small. Throw in a baby and us owning a place in Cork, and wanting to stay here, and I've got to look at working outside of academia unless I get really lucky.

[nesf]

Oh and read the file here: http://www.ucc.ie/en/hr/EmploymentOpportunities/AcademicVacancies/LecturerinEnglishOldEnglish/

It has a nice run down of the salary scale. I believe that to progress beyond 81K you must apply and get statutory, and then that tops out somewhere in the 90s from what I remember from conversations with senior lecturers. After that you must either get Associate or Full Professor and they have their own salary scales but honestly I don't remember them.

[biascut]

Oh, thank you! That's really useful.

[nesf]

You're welcome. I don't know if that's a UCC only thing or the NUI colleges in general.