Research Assistant

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Duties & Responsibilities

Assist the project leader in conducting research on healthy lifestyles and youth development in digital society.
Prepare research instruments including interview protocols and questionnaires.
Conduct literature reviews and collect both quantitative and qualitative data.
Liaise with organizations to recruit research participants.
Assist in programme development, evaluation, report writing, and manuscript preparation.

Hold an honours degree in Psychology, Social Work, Public Health, Education, Computational Social Science, or related discipline.
Demonstrate fluency in written and spoken English and Chinese, including Cantonese and Putonghua.
Possess strong statistical knowledge and data analysis skills with research experience in data collection.
Have expertise in intensive longitudinal data analysis and machine learning techniques for numerical and textual data.
Be proficient in quantitative, qualitative, and computational methods using software such as Mplus, Stata, or R.
Be proficient in Python for data processing, text mining, thematic analysis, and interview coding.