The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (HSUHK) is a non-profit private liberal-arts-oriented university with six Schools (Business, Communication, Decision Sciences, Humanities and Social Science, Translation and Foreign Languages, and Transdisciplinary Studies), and over 7,000 full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students. With its unique “Liberal + Professional” education model, HSUHK nurtures young talent with critical thinking, innovative minds, caring attitudes, moral values and social responsibility.

Aspiring to be a leading private university in the region, HSUHK prioritises stellar undergraduate education, top-quality faculty members, award-winning green campus facilities, innovative degree programmes, a unique residential college system that combines living and learning, interactive small-class teaching, close student-teacher relationships, impactful research, and excellent student development and support services.

HSUHK also ranked 7th (overall) in the ASEAN+ region, the 1st in the Greater China region, the 1st in Employability, the 3rd in Research and the 5th in Community Engagement as per the 2023 AppliedHE ASEAN+ private university ranking by the Singapore-based AppliedHE. Additionally, HSUHK was ranked among the top 200 worldwide on “Quality Education” and “Decent Work and Economic Growth” in the Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings 2021.

HSUHK was recognised in the 2025 Top Universities and Top Scientists Rankings conducted by international academic platform, Research.com, and was ranked 22nd in Social Sciences and Humanities, and 33rd in Economics and Finance among the top universities in China. The University’s MSc in Global Supply Chain Management programme was ranked 84th globally in the QS International Trade Rankings 2025 announced by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). The programme was also ranked 7th in the Greater China region and 4th in Hong Kong. The School of Business obtained AACSB International accreditation, a distinction achieved by only 6% of the world’s leading business schools.

The University now invites applications for the following position:

Part-time Research Assistant – Department of English (Ref: PTRA (ENG) 2025-11-28)

Responsibilities:

• conduct comprehensive literature reviews on Shakespearean adaptations, corpus linguistics, and discourse analysis;

• source and collect a wide range of data, including digitized texts of children’s and young adult books;

• process collected data and compile a structured digital corpus for analysis;

• assist with both qualitative (e.g., close reading, thematic coding) and quantitative (e.g., corpus-assisted discourse analysis) data analysis; and

• coordinate with project team members and assist with project-related logistics

Applicants should:

• possess a recognised bachelor’s degree in Linguistics, English Literature, Digital Humanities, Computer Science, or a related field;

• have received formal training or demonstrated experience in corpus linguistics and/or discourse analysis;

• possess programming skills (e.g., in Python or R) for data crawling, processing, and analysis;

• be proficient in written and spoken English;

• have a good working knowledge of qualitative and quantitative research methods, statistical software and/or qualitative data analysis tools, particularly for working with textual data; and

• have a genuine interest in children’s and young adult literature, Shakespeare, and themes of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The employment is on a 5 to 9-month contract.  Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Interested applicant should visit this link https://recruit.hsu.edu.hk/ and apply on or before 14 December 2025.  The University reserves the right not to fill the position in this exercise.

Applicants who are not invited to an interview within three months may consider their applications unsuccessful.  All information received will be treated in strict confidence, and the data collected will be used for recruitment purposes only.  The Personal Information Collection Statement will be provided upon request.

The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, incorporated in Hong Kong with limited liability by guarantee, is an equal opportunity employer.

The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (HSUHK) is a non-profit private liberal-arts-oriented university with five Schools (Business,\nCommunication, Decision Sciences, Humanities and Social Science, and Translation and Foreign Languages) and over 6,000 full-time students. Adopting the unique “Liberal + Professional” education model, HSUHK aims to nurture young talents with critical thinking,\ninnovative minds, caring attitudes, moral values and social responsibility.\nAspiring to be a leading private university in the region, HSUHK features a primary focus on undergraduate education, top-quality faculty members, award-winning green campus facilities, innovative degree programmes, unique residential college system combining\nliving and learning, interactive small class teaching, very close student-teacher relationship, RGC-funded impactful research, and excellent student development/support services. HSUHK is listed the 7th (overall) in the ASEAN+ region, the 1st in the Greater\nChina region, and the 1st in Employability as per the 2023 AppliedHE ASEAN+ private university assessment by the Singapore-based AppliedHE. It is also listed among the top 200 worldwide on “Quality Education” and “Decent Work and Economic Growth” in the Times\nHigher Education University Impact Rankings 2021.\nThe University now invites application for the following position: