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

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Duties & Responsibilities

Assist the project leader in research on autobiographical memory and personal narratives in Mandarin-speaking children with and without autism.
Support studies investigating language processing in Cantonese- or Mandarin-speaking children with normal and atypical language development.
Conduct subject recruitment, data collection, transcription, and data coding/annotation and analysis.
Co-supervise student assistants in data collection and management tasks.
Perform other duties as assigned by the project leader or delegates.

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