Professor Hayward is an internationally-recognised researcher at the intersection of climate change, sustainability and youth studies. She was the first political scientist appointed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Core Team, preparing a Synthesis Climate Report for UN governments’ approval. She leads a study funded by the UK Economic and Social research Council with Surrey University and five other partner institutions tracking how cities can support young people to flourish in low carbon ways and she is a co-principal-investigator of Mana Rangatahi, a Deep South funded project to support young Māori and Pacific leadership in a changing climate. Recent books include: Sea Change: Climate politics and New Zealand (2017) and Children, Citizenship and Environment #SchoolStrike Edition (2021). She has served as a trustee for the SPARK Foundation and Give A Little and was a Kiwibank Local Hero in 2019, and the “Supreme Winner” and winner of the Environment section in the 2021 Westpac/Stuff Woman of Influence awards.
