Katy Hayward is a Northern Irish academic and writer based at Queens University, Belfast.[1]
Hayward is a professor of Political Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work at Queens in Belfast, with a specialism in the politics of Brexit, conflict resolution and borders.[2] She completed her undergraduate degree in Peace and Conflict Studies at Magee College in 1999.[1] She was awarded a PhD in 2002 by University College, Dublin on the impact of European integration on cross-border relations in Ireland.[1]
She has fellowships including at ‘’UK in a Changing Europe’’, an ESRC-funded initiative, as well as at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queens. In 2019, she became an Eisenhower Fellow.[1]
In 2023 she was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy.[3]
In addition to her academic writing, Hayward writes regularly for The Guardian,[4] Belfast Telegraph,[5] and the Irish Times.[6]
Hayward is a trustee of Conciliation Resources,[7] an independent organisation working with people in conflict to prevent violence and build peace.
