Prof Fergus Lyon

Director of CEEDR

  • School Faculty of Business and Law

  • Department Centre for Enterprise, Environment and Development Research

  • Location London

Research activities

Social Enterprise and Social Entrepreneurship 

Sustainable Business Models

Natural capital and payment for ecosystem services

SMEs, Entrepreneurship and Business Support

Trust, Networks and Clustering of Enterprises

Markets and Entrepreneurship in Delivery of Public Services

Market Institutions and Poverty in Less Developed Countries

Relationships between SMEs and the Scientific Community


Current Teaching

Joanna Paulynn Kitchen (ongoing); Numbers, negotiations and networks:  Exploring the role of calculative practice in the transition towards sustainability.

Ambrose Massaquoi (ongoing); Faith at work in social entrepreneurship.

Adeyemi Adelekan(Completed - Director of Studies); Exploring the circular economy strategies of social enterprises: A case study of organisations in Nigeria's solid waste recycling sector.

Maria Irurita  (Completed - Director of Studies); Innovation and Learning in social enterprises. 

Abdullah Al-Faruq (Completed - Director of Studies);  Social enterprises in Bangladesh. 

Anthony Ayakwah (Completed - Director of Studies); Internationalisation and SME clusters in Ghana.

Isaac Amoako (Completed - Director of Studies); SME Exporting Determinants: The Power of Institutions on Networking and Performance in a developing country.

Bianca Stumbitz  (Completed - Director of Studies); Older Social Entrepreneurs and the life course.

Mark McPherson (Completed - Director of Studies); Inter-generational Differences within Ethnic Minority Enterprises: A Comparison of Sikh and Pakistani Muslim Businesses.

Vitor Braga (Completed- Second Supervisor); Networking in Portuguese SMEs: Evidence from Large Event Organisers and Furniture Industries.

Teaching and Pedagogic interests:

Social enterprise and social entrepreneurship

Natural capital and payment for ecosystem services

Entrepreneurship, business support and regeneration

Business, international development and conflict

Qualitative research methods and analysis

Research project design

Participatory research methodologies for social and natural/biological scientists

Learning through participatory workshops and field research

Outputs- manual of research methods, briefing notes and published handouts for research students


Biography

Fergus Lyon is a Professor of Enterprise and Organisations in the Centre for Enterprise, Environment and Development Research, Middlesex University in London and Deputy Director of the ESRC Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity. His research interests include social and sustainable enterprises, agri-food, sustainable fashion, clustering and networks of enterprises, ethnic minority enterprise, and enterprise support policy. Recent funders include the Economic and Social Research Council, Natural Environment Research Council, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Research England, Dept of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Food Farming and Countryside Commission, European Commission, International Labour Organisation, and a number of charities.  He was the social enterprise lead on the £10m Third Sector Research Centre funded over five years by ESRC and Office for Civil Society. Previously he has carried out research in Bhutan, Ghana, India, Nepal, Nigeria, and Pakistan. He has been a trustee/director of a number social enterprises related to preschool education, conservation and farming.  Fergus has over 150 publications including 50 substantial reports for policy makers funded by UK and international donors, 30 papers in established international journals, 25 book chapters, a number of shorter policy briefings and two books on social research methodologies.

Publications

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