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Pui May Wong is a PhD candidate on “Changing Environments, Changing Childhoods: A Cross-Environmental Ethnography of Moral Socialization in Three Small-Scale Societies,” a five-year research project (2025–29) investigating the impact of environmental changes on the moral development of children in three Indigenous societies. She will be learning from the Batek People, an Indigenous former hunter-gatherer community in Malaysia. May has 15 years of experience as a conservation practitioner in Peninsular Malaysia; and holds an MPhil in conservation leadership (cohort 2016/17) from the University of Cambridge. She has experience in community outreach and engagement, education, communications, policy and advocacy, law enforcement support, and protected area management. She began engaging with Indigenous communities living adjacent to a newly gazetted protected area in 2018, and worked with the management authority to include local voices in the planning and management process. From 2022 until 2025, May was a member of the national Expert Assessment Group for the Green List (EAGL) in Malaysia. The IUCN Green List is a global standard of good practice for area-based conservation.
Dissertation project: Growing up Batek: How Environmental Changes Impact Moral Socialization Among Batek Children in Peninsular Malaysia