Research Assistant

The Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies (HKIAPS) is seeking a Research Assistant with IT skills to support the implementation of the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Hong Kong 2025/26 Main Study. The appointee will play a key role in coordinating study implementation, liaising with participating schools, administering questionnaires, supporting data management and dissemination activities, and facilitating overall project operations. The appointee will also support the development and maintenance of the project webpage, administration of Qualtrics-based surveys, and management of research datasets.

Applicants should have (i) a Bachelor%27s degree or above in Social Sciences, Education, Public Health, Psychology, Information Management, or a related discipline from a recognized university (ii) at least two to four years of post-qualification relevant experience, preferably with substantial experience in: (1) Liaising with schools, teachers, educational organisations, or community stakeholders (2) Coordinating large-scale research projects, surveys, or programme implementation and (3) Working independently while maintaining regular progress reporting and documentation (iii) demonstrated strong analytical, organisational, troubleshooting, interpersonal, and communication skills with a proactive and service-oriented attitude (iv) a good command of spoken Cantonese and written English and Chinese (v) experience in questionnaire administration, research data collection, data management, report preparation, and project coordination will be an advantage and (vi) intermediate IT competency, including experience with online survey platforms, webpage development and maintenance, website content management, and research data management. Familiarity with web/database security, data protection practices and cybersecurity when handling research data, as well as experience in managing research datasets and using statistical software and reporting tools, will be an advantage.

The appointee will be responsible for (a) assisting in drafting the sampling plan and managing the logistics (including the distribution and collection) of the Main Study questionnaires and communication with the participating schools (b) liaising with school teachers regarding paper-based and computer-based assessments (c) administering the distribution and collection of questionnaires (d) debriefing and instructing the administration of the student survey and the related surveys for teachers and school administrators (e) supporting the recruitment of student helpers for packing questionnaires, data entry, data cleaning, scanning, and optical mark recognition (OMR) processing (f) assisting in conducting preliminary analyses and drafting research reports and individual school reports (g) assisting in setting up press releases, school seminars, and workshops on key findings (h) assisting in designing individual school reports for public dissemination in the final seminar for participating schools (i) documenting all HBSC 2026 research and professional development materials, including the most updated dissemination measures, analysis reports, newsletters, related papers, and other relevant materials (j) developing a dedicated project webpage to document all HK-HBSC-related promotional materials, and publications so that researchers, educators, and the general public can access previous findings and updated information on HK-HBSC26 (k) conducting final testing and modification of three sets of Qualtrics questionnaires, and working closely with the research team on e-survey questionnaire distribution, data collection, and report generation and (l) generating codebooks and datasets after data collection, and providing first-level data cleaning and management, including dataset archiving and file conversion for different statistical software packages (e.g. Qualtrics, SPSS, R Studio, and STATA).

Appointment will initially be made on contract basis for nine months commencing as soon as possible, renewable subject to mutual agreement.

The University only accepts and considers applications submitted online for the post above via the CUHK career site. For more information and to apply online, please visit .