The phrase "junior lecturer" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a person who holds a lower or entry-level position in a university or college as a teacher or researcher but has not yet achieved the rank of full lecturer. Example: "The university is seeking to hire a junior lecturer for their Sociology department, with expertise in gender studies."
To put this in context, their average salaries are around £320,000 a year; a junior lecturer earns between £31,000 to 36,000.
I saw it when I first went there in 1973 to take up a job – my first paid employment – as a junior lecturer at the Queen's University.
Consider Jim Dixon, the "lucky" junior lecturer at a provincial university who made Amis's fortune and who became his most recognizable alter ego.
His fledgling career as a junior lecturer in history at Magdalen College, Oxford, was cut short after he enjoyed enormous success with the comedy revue Beyond the Fringe in 1960.
Maisie's current assignment finds her working undercover as a junior lecturer in philosophy at a Cambridge college founded on "the concept of peace" by a pacifist who is rudely dispatched by an assassin.
In the earlier film, they played respectively a brilliant, erratic junior lecturer in philosophy at Nanterre who can't complete his dissertation and the neurotic girlfriend of long standing whom he's two-timing.
Some of these schemes are also open to junior lecturers, so that they may buy time away from lecturing and concentrate on putting their research career on track.
Students and junior lecturers loved him.
Some of the junior lecturers queuing earned only £17,000 and were worried about Oxford's future deficit.
"David Cannadine and myself offered support to the New College because higher education in the UK needs more diversity and this enterprise – if it takes off – should create new posts for junior lecturers at a time when they are very badly needed".
There will be more than disappointment among the Irish nurses, teachers, civil servants and junior lecturers who are taking the brunt; but the banks are on the floor and the property developers are desperately fighting off the spectre of bankruptcy as their Brobdingnagian loans are called in.
