Quote Originally Posted by Loki View Post
Wait, what? Whether the person is a Ph.D. student or not (the job ad suggests the person should already have the Ph.D.), they're not a student at Oxford. Oxford is getting an employee. The job is a fixed-term lectureship. Research is a key part of being a lecturer. Each university in Britain gets judged on the quantity of its research. This has a major impact on funding decisions.
The job is getting posted as a part-time 6 hour a week for 24 weeks post not a full time permanent post.
Yeah, it's not like I actually do things or anything. Or work in the same field.
Yeah its not like you're the first person in a field to think that he and his colleagues deserve more money. Funny how everyone thinks they're undervalued and nobody ever says how overpaid they are.

We'll see if they're unable to find someone to fill the vacancy. Something tells me they will be able to which means the free market thinks it isn't underpaid.
You seem to have no idea what research is. Do you actually think research means writing a dissertation and then chilling for the rest of your career?
No I think its not part of the job description, because its not.
Ok, let's start with 24 weeks for teaching. Add 2-3 weeks for giving and grading exams. Another 3-4 for admissions. Another few weeks for preparing syllabi. Closer to 32 weeks now. And you're fully expected to do research the rest of the time. If you don't, you don't get retained and you don't get hired elsewhere.
So you can maybe shift that £93.16 per hour based on the universities job description down to say £70 an hour. Good look finding a McDonalds burger flipper on 50% more than that like you claimed!