School of Hotel and Tourism Management
Research Assistant
(Ref. 260311017)
[Appointment period: six months]
Duties
The appointee will assist the project leader in the research project - “Enhancing mega-region destination development: Uncovering spatial integration through tourist travel patterns”.
Qualifications
Applicants should:
(a) have an honours degree in Geography, Urban Studies, Data Science or a related field or an equivalent qualification, preferably a master’s degree;
(b) be comfortable handling large-scale geo-tagged social media data;
(c) have expertise in spatial-temporal analysis, spatial interaction modelling, and network analysis;
(d) have experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP), topic modelling, or machine learning methods; and
(e) have peer-reviewed publications aligned with tourism behaviour or mobility research.
Applicants are invited to contact Dr Emily Chen at telephone number 3400 2294 or via email at jinyan.chen@polyu.edu.hk for further information.
Conditions of Service
A highly competitive remuneration package will be offered.
Consideration of applications will commence on 18 March 2026 until the position is filled.
Posting date: 11 March 2026