Doctor Isaac Lyne

Doctor Isaac Lyne

Postgraduate Research Fellow,
Institute for Culture and Society

Biography

Isaac Lyne is a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) working on a 5-year project "Building the evidence base on the impacts of mobile financial services for women and men in farming households in Laos and Cambodia", commissioned by Australia Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), due to end in May 2026. In a previous Fellowship role at ICS, funded by the SeedBox International Environmental Humanities, Isaac engaged with water distribution in eastern Cambodia using a "business at the bottom of the economic pyramid approach", through environmental humanities and his prior interests in community economies research. Isaac graduated from the Institute with a PhD in 2017 for a thesis titled "Social Enterprise and Community Development: Theory into Practice in Two Cambodian Villages; his fieldwork entailed action research harnessing Asset Based Community Development (ABCD).

Between 2009 and 2012 Isaac coordinated "Social Enterprise in Cambodia: Capacity building for inclusive business", commissioned by the British Council’s Development Partnerships in Higher Education (DelPHE) programme and delivered in partnership between the Royal University of Phnom Penh in Cambodia, University of Bradford Centre for International Development in the United Kingdom, and an award winning social enterprise called "Friends International."

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Qualifications

  • PhD Western Sydney University
  • PGDipResMeth(SoSc) University of Bradford
  • MA(IntDevMan) University of Bradford
  • BA(SocPolAdmin) Leeds Metropolitan University

Awards

  • International Postgraduate Research Student scholarship 2012-03-26

Interests

  • Community Development
  • Food security

Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Institute for Culture and Society

Contact

Email: I.Lyne@westernsydney.edu.au
Phone:
0296859770
0296859770
Mobile:
Location: EM.G.16
ParramattaEM.G.16
Parramatta

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Teaching

Previous Teaching Areas

  • 101331 Issues in World Development: Rich World, Poor World, 2018
  • 101331 Issues in World Development: Rich World, Poor World, 2019
  • 101571 Peace & Development Project, 2018
  • 101571 Peace & Development Project, 2019
  • 101900 Working with Communities, 2019

Publications

Chapters in Books

  • Lyne, I. and Rado, I. (2024), 'Dynamics of power and participation : lessons from Cambodia and Thailand', Entanglements of Designing Social Innovation in the Asia-Pacific, Routledge 9781032140643.
  • Lyne, I. (2023), 'Social enterprise', Elgar Encyclopedia of Development, Edward Elgar Publishing .
  • Lyne, I., Hill, A., Barron, E., Guzman, A. and Krell, I. (2023), 'Resilience', Elgar Encyclopedia of Development, Edward Elgar Publishing 9781800372115.
  • Alhojarvi, T., Lyne, I., Placino, P., McKinnon, K. and Community Economies Collective, .. (2023), 'Postcapitalism', Elgar Encyclopedia of Development, Edward Elgar Publishing 9781800372115.
  • Cameron, J. and Lyne, I. (2022), 'Community economies', The Routledge Handbook of Global Development, Routledge 9780367862022.
  • Amos, C., Lyne, I. and Rahman, A. (2021), 'Harvested rainwater as a solution for marine pollution and contaminated groundwater', Life Below Water, Springer 9783319710648.
  • Lyne, I. and Madden, A. (2020), 'Enterprising new worlds : social enterprise and the value of repair', Handbook of Diverse Economies, Edward Elgar Publishing 9781788119955.
  • Lyne, I., Ryu, J., Teh, Y. and Morita, T. (2019), 'Religious influences on social enterprise in Asia : observations in Cambodia, Malaysia and South Korea', Social Enterprise in Asia: Theory, Models and Practice, Routledge 9780367211592.
  • Khieng, S. and Lyne, I. (2019), 'Social enterprise in Cambodia : typology and institutionalisation', Social Enterprise in Asia: Theory, Models and Practice, Routledge 9780367211592.
  • Lyne, I. (2017), 'Social enterprise and the everydayness of precarious Indigenous Cambodian villagers : challenging ethnocentric epistemologies', Critical Perspectives on Entrepreneurship: Challenging Dominant Discourses, Routledge 9781138938878.

Journal Articles

  • Lyne, I. (2023), 'Does thinking and working politically improve support for social business? : evidence from a water business in Cambodia', Development Policy Review, vol 41, no 6 .
  • Lyne, I. (2020), 'Bottling water differently, and sustaining the water commons? : social innovation through water service franchising in Cambodia', Water Alternatives, vol 13, no 3 , pp 248 - 265.
  • Gibson, K., Astuti, R., Carnegie, M., Chalernphon, A., Dombroski, K., Haryani, A., Hill, A., Kehi, B., Law, L., Lyne, I., McGregor, A., McKinnon, K., McWilliam, A., Miller, F., Ngin, C., Occena-Gutierrez, D., Palmer, L., Placino, P., Rampengan, M., Than, W., Wianti, N. and Wright, S. (2018), 'Community economies in Monsoon Asia : keywords and key reflections', Asia Pacific Viewpoint, vol 59, no 1 , pp 3 - 16.
  • Lyne, I., Ngin, C. and Santoyo-Rio, E. (2018), 'Understanding social enterprise, social entrepreneurship and the social economy in rural Cambodia', Journal of Enterprising Communities, vol 12, no 3 , pp 278 - 298.
  • Khieng, S. and Lyne, I. (2016), 'L'entreprise sociale au Cambodge : typologie et institutionnalisation', Revue Internationale de l'Economie Sociale, vol 4, no 342 , pp 36 - 53.
  • Lyne, I., Khieng, S. and Ngin, C. (2015), 'Social enterprise in Cambodia : an overview', ICSEM Working Papers, vol 5 .
  • Lyne, I. (2012), 'Social Enterprise and Social Entrepreneurship as Models of Sustainability for Local NGO's: Learning from Cambodia', International Journal for Management Research, vol 2, no 1 , pp 1 - 6.
  • Toner, A., Lyne, I. and Ryan, P. (2008), 'Reaching the promised land : can social enterprise reduce social exclusion and empower communities?', Education, Knowledge and Economy, vol 2, no 1 , pp 1 - 13.
  • Ryan, P. and Lyne, I. (2008), 'Social enterprise and the measurement of social value : methodological issues with the calculation and application of the social return on investment', Education, Knowledge and Economy, vol 2, no 3 , pp 223 - 237.
  • Mdee, A., Lyne, I. and Cornelius, N. (2008), 'Social enterprise : governance, impact and measurement', Education, Knowledge and Economy, vol 2, no 3 , pp 149 - 153.
  • Lyne, I. (2008), 'How can social enterprise really tackle social exclusion? : a comparative study of children's welfare in the United Kingdom and Cambodia', Education, Knowledge and Economy, vol 2, no 3 , pp 175 - 190.

Conference Papers

  • Succarie, A., Lyne, I. and Lyne, I. (2022), 'Blended pedagogy : perspectives on social entrepreneurship teaching and practice', Social Enterprise Academic Symposium, Brisbane, Qld..
  • Lyne, I. (2014), 'A community economic analysis of social enterprise : contextual factors in Cambodian village life', Knowledge/Culture/Economy International Conference, Parramatta, N.S.W..
  • Lyne, I., Ngin, C. and Santoyo-Rio, E. (2013), 'Understanding social enterprise, social economy and local social entrepreneurship in the context of rural Cambodia', EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise, Liege, Belgium.

Other Publications

  • 2009, 'Projects for Regeneration: Making them Work', Report

Previous Projects

Title: Workshop for Project "Building the evidence base on the impacts of mobile financial services for women and men in farming households"
Funder:
  • Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACRG)
Western Researchers: Heather Horst and Isaac Lyne
Years: 2022-11-21 - 2023-02-28
ID: P00028389
Title: The Seed Box: A Mistra-Formas Environmental Humanities Collaboratory (EHC) [via Linkoping University]
Funder:
  • Mistra and Formas
Western Researchers: Denis Byrne and Isaac Lyne
Years: 2017-08-28 - 2022-07-31
ID: P00023745

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