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Recruitment of Research / Project Posts

The following posts are temporary positions. Please click the position to view the post specification.

Qualified appointees who are able to propose an MPhil or PhD research topic in consultation with the project leader will be encouraged to register for a research degree in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

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Department / Unit Position Project Title Closing / Initial Screening Date Ref. No.
Department of Language Science and Technology Part-time Research Assistant Understanding vulnerabilities in narrative performance in Mandarin-speaking children with developmental language disorder 29 December 2025 251219005
Department of Language Science and Technology Research Assistant (Full-time/Part-time) Research on the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying the integration process of speech cues 26 December 2025 251219004
Department of Language Science and Technology Part-time Project Associate / Project Assistant Scaling up C-for-Chinese@JC in kindergarten sector to cultivate culturally responsive education”. The project is funded by The Hong Kong Jockey Club, aiming at supporting ethnic minority children in kindergarten and junior primary sector to learn Chinese under a culturally responsive education framework, as a scale-up extension of a completed project called “C-for-Chinese@JC 22 December 2025 251215008
Department of Language Science and Technology Postdoctoral Fellow Understanding vulnerabilities in narrative performance in Mandarin-speaking children with developmental language disorder and exploring mechanisms underlying novel classifier learning 22 December 2025 251215006
Department of Language Science and Technology Research Assistant (Full-time/Part-time) Lexical tone perception in Hong Kong Cantonese-speaking children with autism: An investigation of age-related differences using behavioural and EEG measures 22 December 2025 251215005
Department of Language Science and Technology Research Assistant (Full-time/Part-time) The neuroanatomy of L3 acquisition: a six-month language booster for beginning learners of Italian 5 December 2025 251128015
Department of Language Science and Technology Research Assistant Enhancing aspect-based sentiment analysis: embracing multilingual and multimodal dimensions with large language models 1 December 2025 251124010
Department of Language Science and Technology Part-time Project Assistant N.A. 28 November 2025 251121017
Department of Language Science and Technology Research Associate / Research Assistant Personalising Cantonese speech decoding in EEG-based brain-computer interfaces through voiceprint integration 29 November 2025 251121015
Department of Language Science and Technology Project Assistant Scaling up C-for-Chinese@JC in kindergarten sector to cultivate culturally responsive education 1 December 2025 251117004
Department of Language Science and Technology Research Assistant Lexical-semantic organisation across development: behavioural and neuroimaging perspectives 24 November 2025 251117003
Department of Language Science and Technology Project Assistant N.A. 10 November 2025 251031006
Department of Language Science and Technology Research Assistant Enhancing EFL writing through an AI-powered corpus platform: issues and challenges 21 October 2025 251014020
Department of Language Science and Technology Research Assistant (Full-time/Part-time) Integrating GenAI into interpreting training: impact on skills acquisition, challenges and ethical considerations 21 October 2025 251014019
Department of Language Science and Technology Part-time Research Assistant Training verification for the elderly: developing a metaliteracy program based on web-track data and large language models 26 September 2025 250919005
Department of Language Science and Technology Research Assistant (Full-time/Part-time) From learning to communication: building AI-powered tools with an adaptive preschool tutor and a multimodal brain-computer interface 26 September 2025 250919004
Department of Language Science and Technology Part-time Project Administrative Assistant Bridging theory and practice: understanding GenAI challenges and opportunities in Hong Kong communication industry for curriculum, subject development, and teaching enhancements 26 September 2025 250919003
Department of Language Science and Technology Research Assistant (Full-time/Part-time) Feasibility and efficacy of a mixed reality-based cognitive stimulation therapy to enhance nonverbal cognition and language ability of people with mild to moderate dementia: an initial study 15 September 2025 250908004
Department of Language Science and Technology Part-time Research Associate / Part-time Research Assistant Attentional dynamics in professional bilingual performance: A mixed-method investigation of translation and interpreting 15 September 2025 250908003
Department of Language Science and Technology Research Associate Implementing hybrid dynamic assessment of Chinese morphological awareness for Chinese-speaking and non-Chinese-speaking grade one children in Hong Kong: A multiphase mixed-method study 8 September 2025 250901004
Department of Language Science and Technology Project Assistant (Full-time/Part-time) Innovating multilingual assessment and intervention in the education of speech therapists: Building capacity in the use of automatic speech recognition technologies for serving Chinese-speaking multilingual children 8 September 2025 250901003
Department of Language Science and Technology Part-time Research Assistant Effects of congenital amusia on afflicted individuals’ statistical learning of music and speech 8 September 2025 250901002
Department of Language Science and Technology Research Associate Morphological decoding or morphological meaning analysis? Unpacking the effects of Chinese morphological interventions on Hong Kong Chinese speaking and non-Chinese speaking students’ literacy development 19 August 2025 250812008
Department of Language Science and Technology Research Assistant (Full-time/Part-time) Modeling generalized event knowledge for noun compound interpretation and prediction with vector spaces and transformers 16 August 2025 250801001
Department of Language Science and Technology Project Assistant (Full-time/Part-time) Enhancing students’ theoretical competence and translation competence through critical engagement with GenAI: A quasi-experiment 1 August 2025 250724004
Department of Language Science and Technology Part-time Research Associate Connecting the dots: examining the impact of risk and protective factors on loneliness types and mental health in Hong Kong's elderly 31 July 2025 250724003
Department of Language Science and Technology Part-time Research Assistant The seductive details effect of danmu on the incidental learning of English vocabulary 1 August 2025 250724002
Department of Language Science and Technology Project Assistant Integrating ChatGPT-based prompt engineering in teaching and learning news trans-editing 30 July 2025 250717010
Department of Language Science and Technology Postdoctoral Fellow Communication strategies for public/ patient engagement 23 July 2025 250717009
Department of Language Science and Technology Research Assistant Effect of specific content themes and communication styles in internal social media messages on employee identification and engagement 2 July 2025 250612002
Department of Language Science and Technology Research Assistant / Project Assistant Setting up and growing TalkBank at PolyU 16 May 2025 250509005
Department of Language Science and Technology Research Assistant / Project Assistant / Part-time Research Assistant / Part-time Project Assistant Autobiographical memory and personal narratives and their association in Mandarin-speaking elementary children and adolescents with and without Autism: a pilot study 26 March 2025 250320002