The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies
Global Search for Professor / Associate Professor / Assistant Professor / Research Assistant Professor
Institution Type: | College / University |
Location: | Hong Kong |
Position: | Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Full Professor |
Global Search for Professor / Associate Professor / Assistant Professor / Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies
THE INSTITUTION
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University is a government-funded tertiary institution in Hong Kong. It offers programmes at various levels including Doctorate, Master’s, and Bachelor’s degrees. It has a full-time academic staff strength of around 1,200. The total consolidated expenditure budget of the University is close to HK$5.5 billion (US$705 million) per year.
THE DEPARTMENT
The Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies is one of the constituent departments of the Faculty of Humanities. One of the missions of the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies is to promote and develop studies of Chinese in multilingual contexts and studies of multilingualism in Chinese contexts. It has built a reputation in Applied Chinese Language Studies, and seeks to extend its strength in areas like Bilingualism (including Translation and Interpreting), Cross-Cultural Communication and East Asian Studies. Another mission of the Department is to offer profession-based programmes that meet the career aspirations of young adults in Hong Kong and Greater China. It offers bachelor, master, and doctoral programmes in Bilingual Corporate Communication, Chinese Linguistics, Chinese Language Teaching, Speech Therapy, Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, Translating and Interpreting. It also offers programmes in Korean/Japanese Business Communication at bachelor and master levels. Within the Department, there is a Centre for Translation Studies, a PolyU-Peking U Research Centre in Chinese Linguistics, a Speech Therapy Unit, and a Chinese Language Centre which provides training in Chinese language and Putonghua for the whole university. The Department has over 90 full-time academic staff members. Please visit the website at http://www.cbs.polyu.edu.hk for more information about the Department.
The Department is looking for enthusiastic, established and suitably qualified persons with PhD degree to join the Department to take part in a number of teaching and research activities. Openings now available can be found in our Career Opportunities at http://www.polyu.edu.hk/hro/job/en/index.php. You are welcome to send in your curriculum vitae with an application form indicating your research interest and the level of position applied for.
For details of the research areas of the Department, please visit the website at http://www.cbs.polyu.edu.hk or contact Professor Shi Dingxu, the Head of the Department at dingxu.shi@polyu.edu.hk.
For more information about PolyU, please visit PolyU’s website at www.polyu.edu.hk
Contact: |
Please send in a detailed curriculum vitae together with an application form downloaded from http://www.polyu.edu.hk/hro/job/en/guide_forms/forms.php to Human Resources Office, 13/F, Li Ka Shing Tower, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong; via email hrstaff@polyu.edu.hk; or by fax at (852) 2764 3374. Applicants may contact hrstaff@polyu.edu.hk for general enquiries. The University’s Personal Information Collection Statement for recruitment can be found at http://www.polyu.edu.hk/hro/job/en/guide_forms/pics.php. |
Website: | http://www.polyu.edu.hk |
Primary Category: | Linguistics |
Secondary Categories: | Area Studies Languages Literature |
Posting Date: | 04/16/2015 |
Closing Date | 12/31/2015 |