Bronwyn Hayward
Position
Senior Lecturer
Qualifications
BA Hons
MA
PhD (Otago)
Contact Details
607, Locke Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987
Internal Phone: 6096
bronwyn.hayward@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal address:
School of Social and Political Sciences,
University of Canterbury,
Private Bag 4800,
Christchurch,
New Zealand
Research
Today’s 1.2 billion teenagers are growing up in a world very different from their parents and their grandparents. My research focuses on understanding children and young people’s political aspirations, participation and experiences in a rapidly changing physical and socio-economic environment.
I am a co-investigator with my colleagues Professor Karen O’Brien (PI) and Dr Elin Selboe of the University of Oslo on project titled Voices of the Future: Values and Visions of Norwegian Youth on Responses to Climate Change http://www.sv.uio.no/iss/english/research/projects/voices/index.html this is a NORKLIMA funded research grant (NZ $1.18 Million)
The study examines young people’s political agency or sense of responsibility and engagement to understand the beliefs, values and world views of young people growing up in Norway and how these vary across different ethnic/minority, religious, class and gender backgrounds. The overall objective is to help governments understand the fundamental social, cultural and institutional prerequisites that have to be in place to develop effective responses to dangerous environmental change
I am also a Visiting Fellow at the University of Surrey, UK researching two related young people and environment projects with colleague Prof Tim Jackson (PI) with RESOLVE the ESRC funded research group on environmental lifestyles and values and the ESRC/DEFRA and Scottish government funded: Sustainable Lifestyles Research group.
Between Feb 2008-2001 I was also a fellow with the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia With colleagues Prof Kate Brown at the Tyndall Centre Bronwyn is currently researching governments' changing responsibilities for social contracts and coastal planning in response to climate change.
My next book examines children’s citizenship and attitudes to democracy in a changing environment published by Earthscan/Taylor Francis, London. (May 2012)
Background
Bronwyn's training is in both political science and geography. She specialises in environmental politics and deliberative theory, public participation and issues related to youth citizenship and environmental understanding. She has also worked in production and advocacy for children's television and radio, and in communication for national parks, museums, and forests in New Zealand, the UK and the United States. In 2000-2002 Bronwyn also served as the Ministerial representative to the New Zealand Broadcasting Standards Authority.
Teaching
Bronwyn teaches the NZ political science honours class: Pols 406 (New Zealand politics), Pols 216 Local Government and Pols 304 Environmental policy and politics
Thesis Supervision
From 20011 prospective graduate students are encouraged to discuss their research interests. Bronwyn particularly encourages interdisciplinary research as in the areas of youth /civic political participation; deliberative theory; environmental policy and climate change; and social capital /social resilience to environmental change.
University of Canterbury student supervision 2006-2008
- Holly Donald , Toby Nicholls 2008 : Youth Citizen Juries – a post graduate summer scholarship for Local Government New Zealand to A youth jury about water and the Central Plains Water scheme producing a DVD and training workshop on 'Growing Active Citizens'
- Milne, Tim: Youth Civic Engagement and Political Participation: An Annotated Bibliography (Summer Research Scholarship UC POLS-COM 2005)
- Buck, Jess 2008 Young Asian Voters: An NZ-USA Cross national comparison (Wallace Scholarship) (Current)
- Kirk, Nick 2008 MA Children's attitudes to climate change: The Impact of neoliberalism (Awarded with Distinction)
- Sheerin, Celia: 2007 Youth Non Voting MA (UC Scholarship). (Awarded with Distinction, Highly Commended NZ Wallace Electoral Commission Awards 2008 )
- Dalton Wakaiti (co-supervisor) Maori Political Efficacy and Bilingual Education (Wallace Scholarship) (Awarded First Class Hons)
- Wilson-Kelly Nicola 2007: Young women voters - what makes them tick? BA(Hons) (Wallace Scholarship). (Awarded First Class Hons)