Dr. Beryl Pong

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Beryl Pong is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the Centre for the Future of Intelligence. She leads the project titled 'Droned Life: Data, Narrative, Aesthetics Worldmaking.' She is an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge and holds affiliated positions at Trinity College, Cambridge and the National University of Singapore in the areas of English, Linguistics, and Theatre Studies. Previously, she was a Vice-Chancellor's Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Sheffield and held a research fellowship at Jesus College, Cambridge. Additionally, she was awarded the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Toronto. Beryl's research interests lie in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglophone literature, visual culture, sound studies, philosophies of space and time, aesthetics, and science and technology studies. She actively supervises graduate research in these related areas.

Research Interests

Experience

Lecturer

2021-01-01 — Present

University of Cambridge • Cambridge, UK

Teaching and conducting research at the Faculty of English.

Vice-Chancellor's Fellow

2018-01-01 — 2020-12-31

University of Sheffield • Sheffield, UK

Lectured within the School of English and initiated various research projects.

Requirements for University of Cambridge

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.7
IELTS
Listening
Required:7
Reading
Required:7
Writing
Required:7
Speaking
Required:7
Overall
Required:7.5
TOEFL
Listening
Required:25
Reading
Required:25
Writing
Required:25
Speaking
Required:25
Total
Required:110
Prerequisites
UK Bachelor's Degree with good Upper Second Class Honours or international equivalent Background in international relations, politics, law, economics, security or history is a definite asset
Application Checklist
  • Two academic references
  • Official transcripts
  • CV/Resume
  • Personal statement (approx 500 words)
  • Research proposal (1-2 pages/500 words)
  • Application fee (£50)
Specialization Notes

Standard postgraduate requirements for Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and related humanities departments.