Senior Research Assistant/Research Assistant, Academy of Chinese, History, Religion and Philosophy
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Posted on:
22-08-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
FACULTY OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
ACADEMY OF CHINESE HISTORY RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Senior Research Assistant / Research Assistant ()
The Department is seeking a Senior Research Assistant/Research Assistant to join a UGC-funded project on the history of singing history keeping and politics in precolonial and early colonial Mesoamerica. This project will use textual analysis translation and musicological analysis. The project is based in the Department of History.
Responsibilities:
- Conduct library and textual research;
- Perform digital searches;
- Help develop and maintain an online presence;
- Reaching out to libraries and archives to arrange procurement of research materials; and
- Assist in teaching and designing teaching materials
Requirements:
- A bachelors degree in History Musicology Anthropology Latin American studies or a related field;
- Proficiency in conducting manual and digital searches for research materials;
- Previous experience in website maintenance will be an advantage;
- Knowledge of Indigenous languages particularly Nahuatl is not required but an interest in them is encouraged. Knowledge of Spanish is highly desirable but not mandatory. Additionally familiarity with French Portuguese Italian Polish and/or German is considered beneficial;
- Strong English reading and writing skills; and
- Curiosity about the history of Indigenous America precolonial belief systems and expressions early colonial interactions and decolonial theory.
Rank and salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Application Procedure:
Applicants are invited to submit their applications at the HKBU e-Recruitment System. Those who are not invited for interview 8 weeks after the submission of application may consider their applications unsuccessful. Details of the Universitys Personal Information Collection Statement can be found athttps:// University reserves the right not to make an appointment for the post advertised and the appointment will be made according to the terms and conditions applicable at the time of offer.
Review of applications is ongoing until the position is filled.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Laboratory Experience
- Spss
- Data Collection
- DNA Isolation
- Stata
- Biochemistry
- Qualitative Research Interviewing
- Research Experience
- Statistical Software
- Molecular Biology
- Research Laboratory Experience
- Western Blot
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