Founded in 1967 as the first sociology department in Hong Kong, the department sits within the Faculty of Social Sciences and encompasses sociology, demography, criminology and anthropology, with strong traditions in qualitative, ethnographic and participatory research alongside expanding quantitative, social statistics and demography expertise, and it offers undergraduate major and minor programmes in Sociology, Criminology and Media & Cultural Studies as well as research and taught postgraduate degrees. The appointee is expected to teach at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, supervise students, conduct and publish high-quality research and assume high-level service and administrative responsibilities. Applicants should hold a PhD in Sociology, Anthropology or a related discipline with an established record of original, rigorous scholarship and publications in high-quality international journals; the department is particularly interested in expertise in socio-economic inequality, AI and society, and the sociology or anthropology of media and/or culture, with digital methods an advantage. Applications require a cover letter, an up-to-date CV with three referees, graduate transcripts and certificates, a representative research output, a research plan of up to two pages, a teaching statement of up to two pages with evaluations, and outlines of two proposed undergraduate courses. Review of applications starts as soon as possible and continues until November 30, 2026 or until the post is filled, whichever is earlier.
- Career stageAll career stages
- DegreePhD
- Degree requirementApplicants should possess a Ph. D. degree in Sociology, Anthropology, or a related discipline
- StatusOpen
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