Katy Hayward

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.{{cite news |title=Three Queen's Academics Admitted to Royal Irish Academy |url=https://www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews/featured/ThreeQueensAcademicsAdmittedtoRoyalIrishAcademy-1.html |access-date=25 August 2023 |publisher=Queen's University Belfast |date=29 May 2023}} She completed her undergraduate degree in Peace and Conflict Studies at Magee College in 1999. She was awarded a PhD in 2002 by University College, Dublin on the impact of European integration on cross-border relations in Ireland.

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.

In 2023 she was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy.{{cite web |title=Admittance Day 2023 |url=https://www.ria.ie/news/membership/admittance-day-2023 |website=www.ria.ie |date=26 May 2023 |publisher=Royal Irish Academy |accessdate=27 May 2023 |archive-date=4 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231204092303/https://www.ria.ie/news/membership/admittance-day-2023 |url-status=dead }}

In addition to her academic writing, Hayward writes regularly for The Guardian,{{cite web |title=Katy Hayward {{!}} The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/katy-hayward |website=the Guardian |accessdate=14 December 2019 |language=en}} Belfast Telegraph,{{cite news |title=Can an 'anti-democratic' Brexit backstop ever aspire to have genuine legitimacy? |url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/news-analysis/can-an-antidemocratic-brexit-backstop-ever-aspire-to-have-genuine-legitimacy-38531833.html |website=BelfastTelegraph.co.uk |date=25 September 2019 |accessdate=14 December 2019}} and the Irish Times.{{cite web |title=Katy Hayward {{!}} The Irish Times |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/topics/topics-7.1213540?article=true&tag_person=Katy+Hayward |website=www.irishtimes.com |accessdate=14 December 2019}}

Hayward is a trustee of Conciliation Resources,{{cite web |title=Our trustees {{!}} Conciliation Resources |url=http://www.c-r.org/our-people/our-trustees |website=www.c-r.org |accessdate=14 December 2019}} an independent organisation working with people in conflict to prevent violence and build peace.

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