WELCOME!

I am a Lecturer in Quantitative Political and Social Research at Birkbeck, University of London. I am also the Director of Birkbeck’s interdiciplinary Postgraduate Social Research Programmes. I am broadly interested in the political economy of local governance and central-local relations in developing nations. Combining different computational, quantitative, and qualitative methods, my research interrogates the institutional and policy foundations of nation-state building and socioeconomic development in multi-ethnic societies. Before coming to Birkbeck, I held fellowship positions at Tsinghua University (Beijing) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Email: c.cheng[at]bbk.ac.uk.