Research Assistant / Project Assistant (Full-time/Part-time)

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Duties & Responsibilities

Assist the project leader in research investigating developmental language disorders in bilingual children.
Conduct subject recruitment, data collection, transcription, and data coding/annotation/analysis.
Co-supervise student assistants in data collection and management tasks.
Support studies on language processing in Cantonese or Mandarin-speaking children with normal and atypical language development.
Perform additional duties as assigned by the project leader or delegates.

Hold a Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Linguistics, Speech Therapy, Psychology, or related discipline.
Be a native speaker of Cantonese with preferred Mandarin proficiency.
Preferably have experience administering experimental studies to school-aged children.
Have background in language acquisition and psycholinguistics.
Ideally intend to pursue further study such as PhD or Master of Speech Therapy.

Full-time/Part-time — Six to twelve months (extensions subject to performance and funding).