This site is a compilation of Pei Ling’s published work in the press.
She has served as a staff and freelance writer for the foreign, national and local press. She graduated with a first-class journalism degree from Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) in 2010, where she was a recipient of UTAR Top Achiever Scholarship (2007-2010), President’s List (2007 & 2008), Dean’s List (2009) and Book Prize (2010).
In 2013, she was awarded the British Chevening Scholarship to pursue a Master of Arts in Environment and Development at King’s College London. Upon graduating with merit in 2014, she has served as a communication officer with the European Forest Institute (EFI) and a senior researcher with the National Water Services Commission (SPAN) in Malaysia.
In 2020, she won St Catharine’s College Tunku Abdul Rahman Scholarship to join the first cohort of MPhil in Anthropocene Studies students at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. In early 2021, she secured a spot to read the MSc in Water Science, Policy and Management at the University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment and Linacre College.
She carries out freelance and voluntary work for international and Malaysian academic, journalistic institutions and non-profits, occassionally commercial clients. She speaks fluent English, Mandarin, Malay, Cantonese, understands Hokkien, a little Japanese and Korean. Contact her at peilinggan [a] gmail.com or via LinkedIn.