Prof. Bronwyn Hayward

Bronwyn Hayward is a New Zealander, trained in political science and geography. She is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Political Sciences and International Relations, as well as Director of the Arts Scholars programme, University of Canterbury. Bronwyn is also a Visiting Fellow with UK ESRC funded RESOLVE Centre for environmental values, attitudes and lifestyle change and the Scottish Government/DEFRA funded Sustainable Lives Research Group (University of Surrey). She is co-investigator on Voices of the Future project, University of Oslo and has been a visiting fellow for Tyndall Centre for Climate Change and lead author for UNEP’s Visions for Change 2011. Her research focus is children and youth in economic, social & environmental change. Her book Children, Citizenship and Democracy: Nurturing a democratic imagination in a changing world (Earthscan, London 2012) was selected as a feature book for Litcam; Frankfurt Book Fair 2012.