A Lecturer is a university academic ranking as well as someone who delivers lectures.

see academic staff.

Lecturers are auxiliary faculty whose primary professional responsibility at the University is teaching.

a public lecturer at certain universities

a full-time, non-tenure track, member of the faculty who is committed to teaching, advising, curriculum development and other departmental and university service and administration

an academic staff member who is responsible for delivering the lecture material to students

a teacher who does not have the research or service responsibilities expected of a tenure-track faculty member

Teaches classes or lectures to a larger group of students undertaking the unit

academic staff with responsibility for curriculum design, teaching and assessment.

an academic who presents knowledge on a given topic to a large group of students. Lectures may include the use of handouts, overhead slides and audio-visual presentations

the most common university academic appointment, having both teaching and research obligations.

Lecturer is the name given to university teachers in most of the English-speaking world (but not at most universities in the U.S. or Canada) who do not hold a professorship. The term is used differently in the U.S., Canada, and other countries influenced by their educational systems.