Bronwyn Mary Hayward is a New Zealand political scientist. Her areas of research are democracy, sustainability and young people. She was a lead author on a United Nations'

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Special Report.

Biography

Hayward was born and raised in

Christchurch Christchurch (; ) is the largest city in the South Island and the List of cities in New Zealand, second-largest city by urban area population in New Zealand. Christchurch has an urban population of , and a metropolitan population of over hal ...

, New Zealand. She attended

Christchurch Girls' High School Christchurch Girls' High School () in Christchurch, New Zealand, was established in 1877 and is the second oldest girls-only secondary school in the country, after Otago Girls' High School. History Christchurch Girls' High School was establishe ...

and then moved to

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to study at the

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. She completed bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in political science and geography at Otago. Hayward has been Senior Visiting Fellow with the Sustainable Lives Research Group (

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) and from 2008 to 2011 was a visiting fellow at the

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for climate change research in East Anglia. She was a co-researcher at the

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on the Voices of the Future project, a study of young people growing up in a changing climate. She is also a Co-Primary Investigator for the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, University of Surrey, UK (2016-2020). Hayward is a professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the

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. She is also director of the university's Sustainable Citizenship and Civic Imagination: Hei Puāwaitanga research group. Kim Hill panel discussion 005

Hayward is considered a world expert on sustainability and youth politics. She was a lead author on UN's

Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C. In the

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, Hayward was appointed a

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, for services to political science, particularly sustainability, climate change and youth. She was elected a

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in 2022.

Bibliography

* Hayward BM. (2017) ''Sea Change: Climate Politics and New Zealand.'' BWB Bridget Williams Books. 120. http://dx.doi.org/10.7810/9781988533285. * Hayward B. (2012) ''Children, citizenship and environment: Nurturing a democratic imagination in a changing world.''1–190. 10.4324/9780203106839. * Hayward BM., Collins R. and Nissen SE. (2017) Children and Environment. In Demeritt D; Castree N; Richardson D (Ed.), ''International Encyclopaedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology'': 7. London: Wiley. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0371. * Hayward B., Collins R. and Nissen S. (2016) Children and Environment. In Demeritt D; Castree N; Richardson D (Ed.), ''The International Encyclopaedia of Geography'': forthcoming. London: Wiley. * Nissen SE. and Hayward BM. (2016) Student associations: The New Zealand experience. In Brooks R (Ed.), ''Student Politics and Protest: International perspectives'': 129–142. Routledge.

References

External links

University of Canterbury Research Profile for Bronwyn HaywardCentre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hayward, Bronwyn Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Politicians from Christchurch Academic staff of the University of Canterbury University of Otago alumni People educated at Riccarton High School New Zealand political scientists New Zealand women political scientists Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit New Zealand Women of Influence Award recipients Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand