Dr Bronwyn Hayward

Bronwyn is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Politics at the University of Canterbury. Between 2008-2011 Bronwyn's work with the SLRG team began when she was based in the UK on a 3 year special study leave as visiting fellow with the RESOLVE centre for research on sustainable lifestyles, Values and Environment at Surrey and the Tyndall Centre for climate change research, University of East Anglia. She is also a research associate at the University of Oslo on the Voices of the Future project about youth and climate change.

Today's 1.2 billion teenagers are growing up in a world very different from their parents and their grandparents. Bronwyn's research focuses on understanding children and young people’s political aspirations, participation and experiences in a rapidly changing physical and socio-economic environment.