Part-time Research Assistant – Department of English

5 days ago


Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong SAR China The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong Full time

Part-time Research Assistant – Department of English The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (HSUHK) is a non-profit private liberal-arts-oriented university with six Schools (Business, Communication, Decision Sciences, Humanities and Social Science, Translation and Foreign Languages, and Transdisciplinary Studies), and over 7,000 full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students. With its unique “Liberal + Professional” education model, HSUHK nurtures young talent with critical thinking, innovative minds, caring attitudes, moral values and social responsibility. HSUHK also ranked 7th (overall) in the ASEAN+ region, the 1st in the Greater China region, the 1st in Employability, the 3rd in Research and the 5th in Community Engagement as per the 2023 AppliedHE ASEAN+ private university ranking by the Singapore-based AppliedHE. Additionally, HSUHK was ranked among the top 200 worldwide on “Quality Education” and “Decent Work and Economic Growth” in the Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings 2021. Responsibilities: conduct comprehensive literature reviews on Shakespearean adaptations, corpus linguistics, and discourse analysis; source and collect a wide range of data, including digitized texts of children’s and young adult books; process collected data and compile a structured digital corpus for analysis; assist with both qualitative (e.g., close reading, thematic coding) and quantitative (e.g., corpus-assisted discourse analysis) data analysis; and coordinate with project team members and assist with project-related logistics Qualifications: possess a recognised bachelor’s degree in Linguistics, English Literature, Digital Humanities, Computer Science, or a related field; have received formal training or demonstrated experience in corpus linguistics and/or discourse analysis; possess programming skills (e.g., in Python or R) for data crawling, processing, and analysis; be proficient in written and spoken English; have a good working knowledge of qualitative and quantitative research methods, statistical software and/or qualitative data analysis tools, particularly for working with textual data; and have a genuine interest in children’s and young adult literature, Shakespeare, and themes of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The employment is on a 5 to 9-month contract. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Interested applicant should visit and apply on or before 14 December 2025 . The University reserves the right not to fill the position in this exercise. Applicants who are not invited to an interview within three months may consider their applications unsuccessful. All information received will be treated in strict confidence, and the data collected will be used for recruitment purposes only. The Personal Information Collection Statement will be provided upon request. The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, incorporated in Hong Kong with limited liability by guarantee, is an equal opportunity employer. #J-18808-Ljbffr



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