Nai Rui Chng holds a PhD in political science from the London School of Economics and Political Science and is currently a research associate in the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow.

His main research interest is the politics of health and environment, and he specialises in policy and programme evaluation. His cross-disciplinary research spans the fields of public health, social and public policy, comparative politics, political sociology, and international development.

A political ethnographer by background, he is also experienced in other qualitative research methods as well as mixed-method analysis. @nairuichng