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Raymond Hyma is a Joint PhD Candidate (Monash-¹û¶³´«Ã½ Alliance) at ¹û¶³´«Ã½â€™s Politics and International Studies Department and Monash’s Global Peace and Security Centre. With a 20-year background in peacebuilding and development across academic, policy, and civil society sectors, his work strives to bridge academic knowledge to practical application for change.

His PhD research focuses on participatory and action-oriented methodologies in conflict contexts and the potential for shifting power in research, transformative changes in perceptions towards ‘the other’ or ‘enemies’, and the inclusion of knowledge generated by those who are directly impacted by the topic of inquiry. He is conducting a case study using a participatory method he co-developed with participant-researchers from Cambodia and Thailand to better understand and act upon growing online hate speech between youth from both countries.

• Artful Integrators Award 2026 for Facilitative Listening Design, Participatory Design Conference 2026 (Italy)
• Development Studies Association of Australia Higher Degree by Research 2025 Prize for Best Paper (Australia)   
• Western Sydney University, Institute for Culture and Society Visiting Fellowship (Australia)
• Monash Graduate Scholarship/Monash International Tuition Scholarship (Australia)
• Salzburg Global Seminar Fellowship, Asia Peace Innovators (Austria)
• University of Hawai’i, Matsunaga Institute for Peace Affiliate Scholarship (Hawai’i)
• Rei Foundation Doctoral Scholarship (New Zealand)
• East-West Center Asia Pacific Leadership Fellowship (Hawai’i)
• Rotary Peace Fellowship - Graduate Certificate (Thailand)
• Rotary World Peace Fellowship - master’s degree (Argentina)

• Hyma, R. & García Martínez, J. (2026) Still in the thick of it: A duoethnographic account navigating and challenging the institutional PhD through participatory and action-oriented research. ​Action Research.
• Hyma, R. (2026) Queering participation: Reimagining the researcher-researched nexus. Journal of Homosexuality.
• Hyma, R., Thanasin, P., & Kry, S. (2026) New trenches of battle: Cambodian–Thai culture clashes in the digital age of nationalism. Media, War & Conflict.
• Hyma, R. & Pratley, EML. (2026) Dining in the dialogical, listening through the relational: 'Withness-thinking' for development scholarship and praxis. Globalizations 23(3), 557-576,
• Hyma, R., Jones, B., Kry, S., Sen, L., Loek, S., Tath, N., & Kuy, T. (2025) The power in re-telling research: A Cambodian community-based approach generating knowledge by subjects of study. Development in Practice, 35(8), 1246-1258,
• Hyma, R. (2025) Listening across borders: Participatory and action-oriented research for inclusive social change in Southeast Asia. HADRI Global Development Working Paper Series, No.2. Sydney: Humanitarian & Development Research Initiative (HADRI), Western Sydney University,
• Thanasin, P., Kry, S., Chhun, C., Hyma, R., Tatiyawongwiwat, R., Khorn, V., Man, F., Srira-Udom, S., Kong, S., & Marasin, W. (2025). Between likes and loathing: A cross-border inquiry into the online conflict between Thailand and Cambodia. Women Peace Makers and Wocation Ltd.
• Hyma, R. (2024) Participatising statelessness research: Towards more inclusive scholarship. The Statelessness & Citizenship Review, 6(1), 130-136,
• Hyma, R. (2024). Conducting community-led research on women facing violence as one herself: An interview with Suyheang Kry of Women Peace Makers. Peace Review, 36(4), 785-789,
• Hyma, R., & Kry, S. (2023). Listening through community research: Start a dialogue by understanding first. In S. B. Martin (Ed.), Peacebuilding practice: A textbook for practitioners,106–112, Women Peace Makers.
• Hyma, R., & Sen, L. (2022). Inquiry as Practice: Building relationships through listening in participatory action peace research. Peace Review, 34(3), 343–351,