Katy Hayward

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Katy Hayward

Professor

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7229-2653

Phone+44 (0)28 9097 3189
Emailk.hayward@qub.ac.uk
Room 02.011 - Sociology and Social Work

United Kingdom

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Research Interests

Centring on Ireland, north and south: Border management; Cross-border conflict and cooperation; EU integration (inc. ‘Brexit’ and the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland); Peace and conflict processes; Political sociology; Political discourses, protest and violence.

Research Statement

Katy Hayward is Professor of Political Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work at Queen’s University Belfast, where she is also co-Director of the Centre for International Borders Research. She was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2023 and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2020. She is a Europe’s Futures Fellow (the Institute for Human Sciences-IWM and ERSTE Foundation) for 2023/24. She is a Fellow of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice and an Eisenhower Fellow (through the 2019 Global Ireland programme). In 2019-22 she was a UK in a Changing Europe Senior Fellow, leading a project on ‘The post-Brexit status and future of Northern Ireland’.

The author of over 300 publications, she has (co)authored several books including Dynamics of Political Change in Ireland(Routledge, 2017) and Northern Ireland a Generation after Good Friday (MUP, 2021). Her most recent monograph is What do we know and what should we do about… the Irish border (Sage, 2021). She has co-authored many research reports, including recently on the impact of Brexit on Irish regions (European Parliament REGI Committee, 2023) and Scotland’s borders after independence (UK in a Changing Europe, 2022). Katy has presented written and oral evidence before numerous parliamentary committees in the UK, Ireland and EU. She was appointed to the technical expert panel of the UK government’s Alternative Arrangements Advisory Group on Brexit (2019) and is an adviser to the Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee of the Scottish Parliament (2021-).

Katy has given invited lectures/presentations in many distinguished academic institutions including Humboldt University, Central European University, Scuola Normale Superiore, New York, Notre Dame, Georgetown, Cambridge and Oxford Universities, as well as in such forums as the European Forum at Alpbach, Debate Europe (S. Fischer Stiftung), and Keele World Affairs. She has given private briefings to Ministers, Ambassadors and senior diplomats and officials from around the world, including all EU27.

Professor Hayward has written and presented widely on the topics of Brexit, the 1998 Agreement and the Irish border to media, policy, civic and academic audiences worldwide. She was awarded a special biennial Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize (2018/19) for her work raising public awareness of the implications of Brexit for Ireland’s peace process. The recipient of the ‘Political Communicator of the Year’ award (2019), she has had opinion pieces published in such as Politico, Huffington Post, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, and the Irish Times and has been interviewed by outlets around the world including CNN, NBC, BBC, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Le Monde, Taggespiegel, Radio France, Deutsche Welle, and Al Jazeera.

Outside the University, Katy is a trustee of the British Irish Association and sits on the Council of the Economic and Social Research Institute (Dublin). She sits on the Advisory Board of the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy and is a member of the UK Constitution Monitoring Group, which monitors developments in the UK constitution, including government accountability, the rule of law and individual rights.

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Twitter: @hayward_katy

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Keywords

HM Sociology
Brexit
Border management
Northern Ireland
Ireland
Governance
1998 Agreement
Peace/Conflict

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Projects

2 Finished
R1072SES: The Post-Brexit status and future of N.Ireland

Hayward, K. (PI)

10/06/2019 → 30/06/2023

Project: Research - ### R1061SES: The Irish/UK Criminal Justice Cooperation Network

Hayward, K. (PI)

01/05/2019 → 31/03/2020

Project: Research - ### R1259PAI: HANDHOLD; Science, Security and Power in Action

Bourne, M. (PI), Degenhardt, T. (CoI), Hayward, K. (CoI), Johnson, H. (CoI), Linton, D. (CoI), Lisle, D. (CoI) & Spence, I. (CoI)

01/08/2012 → 30/09/2014

Project: Research

Technology Development
Economic and Social Development
shape context
Science and Society
Policy Making

Research output

105 Other contribution
49 Article
24 Chapter
20 Other report
42 More
15 Book/Film/Article review
13 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
9 Commissioned report
8 Book
6 Working paper
4 Paper
3 Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
3 Special issue
3 Discussion paper
2 Foreword/postscript
2 Comment/debate
1 Featured article
1 Digital or Visual Products
Democracy and discernment: The public purpose of the University in a world of ‘AI everywhere’

Hayward, K., 20 Feb 2026, (Accepted) In: Journal of the British Academy.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Democracy
Artificial Intelligence
Human Intelligence
Political Power
Neoliberalism
All set for the UK-EU reset?

Hayward, K., 01 Jul 2025, Fortnight, 498, p. 2-4.

Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article - ### Attitudes to climate change in Northern Ireland

Hayward, K. & Hanson, J., May 2025, Queen’s University Belfast and Ulster University. 6 p.

Research output: Book/Report › Other report

Open Access

File

32 Downloads (Pure) - ### Bordering on a poll? Attitudes in Northern Ireland on the constitutional question

Hayward, K. & Rosher, B., 15 Sept 2025, Access Research Knowledge (ARK). 6 p. (ARK Research Update; no. 165)

Research output: Book/Report › Other report

Open Access

File

7 Downloads (Pure) - ### Brexit and Northern Ireland

Hayward, K., 28 Jan 2025, The Brexit files: from referendum to reset. UK in a Changing Europe Initiative (UKICE), p. 126-128

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Open Access

File

265 Downloads (Pure)

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Prizes

Doctoral Research Scholarship

Hayward, K. (Recipient), Sept 1999

Prize: Other distinction - ### Eisenhower Fellowship

Hayward, K. (Recipient), 01 Jan 2019

Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively

Fellowships
Lifespan
Process
USA
Application
Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize (special award)

Hayward, K. (Recipient), 15 Oct 2020

Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

Hayward, K. (Recipient), 2020

Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively - ### Political Communicator of the Year

Hayward, K. (Recipient), 13 Dec 2019

Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

Association Study

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Activities

40 Participation in conference
27 Invited talk
14 Participation in workshop, seminar, course
13 Work on advisory panel to industry or government or non-government organisation
37 More
18 Public lecture/debate/seminar
13 Other
11 Invited or keynote talk at national or international conference
5 Membership of peer review panel or committee
3 Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups
3 Editorial activity
3 Oral presentation
3 Research and Teaching at External Organisation
1 KTP & Consultancy in kind
1 Hosting an academic visitor
1 Membership of network
A climate of trust? Society and climate change in Northern Ireland

Devine, P. (Chair), Hayward, K. (Speaker), Hanson, J. (Speaker), Doherty, S. (Speaker) & Clifford, K. (Speaker)

27 May 2025

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course - ### Political priorities, attitudes and identities since the Agreement

Devine, P. (Chair), Hayward, K. (Speaker), Rosher, B. (Speaker) & Liu, M. (Organiser)

01 Jun 2023

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course - ### Public opinion and Northern Ireland's constitutional future

Rutter, J. (Chair), Curtice, J. (Speaker), Hayward, K. (Speaker), Rosher, B. (Speaker) & Devine, P. (Speaker)

26 May 2022

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public lecture/debate/seminar - ### Scottish National Party Meeting

McLoughlin, P. (Advisor) & Hayward, K. (Advisor)

25 Aug 2021

Activity: Consultancy types › Work on advisory panel to industry or government or non-government organisation - ### The Protocol and the Environment

Gravey, V. (Speaker), Whitten, L. (Chair), Dobbs, M. (Speaker), Phinnemore, D. (Speaker) & Hayward, K. (Speaker)

15 Feb 2021

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public lecture/debate/seminar

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