What was Alan Turing's academic position at the University of Manchester?

Alan Turing’s academic position at the University of Manchester was Reader in Mathematics.

Turing joined Manchester in 1948 after working at the National Physical Laboratory, where he had designed the Automatic Computing Engine. At Manchester, he worked with mathematician Max Newman in the Computing Machine Laboratory, contributing to the development of some of Britain’s earliest stored-program computers.

The title “Reader” was a substantial academic rank in the British university system, roughly comparable to a senior associate professorship in some modern systems. Turing was not appointed a Professor of Computing: computer science was not yet an established university discipline in the modern sense. His formal appointment was in the Mathematics Department, even though his research helped lay the foundations of computer science.

In 1949, Turing also became deputy director of the Computing Machine Laboratory. During his Manchester years, he worked on programming, artificial intelligence, and mathematical biology, including the ideas later associated with the Turing test.