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Research Interests
Centring on Ireland, north and south: Cross-border conflict and cooperation; EU integration (inc. ‘Brexit’ and its impact on Ireland); Peace and conflict processes; Political sociology; Political discourses, protest and violence.
Research Statement
Katy Hayward is Professor of Political Sociology at Queen’s University Belfast and a Senior Fellow of the UK in a Changing Europe thinktank, where she leads a major ESRC-funded project on the topic of the future and status of Northern Ireland after Brexit. She is an Eisenhower Fellow (2019) and a Fellow in the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen's University.
Professor Hayward is an internationally recognised expert on Brexit and Northern Ireland/Ireland, particularly with respect to the Irish border. She was appointed to the technical expert panel of the UK government’s Alternative Arrangements Advisory Group on Brexit (2019) and has given written and oral evidence before several parliamentary committees in the UK, Ireland and EU.
The author of over 300 publications, including academic articles in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Common Market Studies, Geopolitics, and Regional & Federal Studies. She has (co)authored several books including What do we know and what should we do about...? The Irish Border (Sage, forthcoming), Dynamics of Political Change in Ireland (Routledge, 2017) and Northern Ireland a Generation after Good Friday (MUP, forthcoming).
She has also published many research reports, including one (with Prof David Phinnemore) for the European Parliament’s Constitutional Affairs Committee and three on the impact of Brexit in the Irish border region for the Irish Central Border Area Network. Katy was lead author on a report on Anticipating and Meeting New Multilevel Governance Challenges for Northern Ireland After Brexit (2020) focusing specifically on ways that governance, scrutiny and accountability might be managed under the NI/Ireland Protocol.
Professor Hayward has written and presented widely on the topic of Brexit to media, policy, civic and academic audiences. In recognition of her use of Twitter [@hayward_katy] as a means of sharing publically-accessible analysis on Brexit, Katy was given a special award from the Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize (2020) and the title of ‘Political Communicator of the Year’ from the Political Studies Association (UK, 2019).
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R1259PAI: HANDHOLD; Science, Security and Power in Action
Bourne, M., Degenhardt, T., Hayward, K., Johnson, H., Linton, D., Lisle, D. & Spence, I.
01/08/2012 → 30/09/2014
Project: Research
Research output
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A practical guide on Brexit for people living in Northern Ireland
Hayward, K., 01 Jan 2021, Belfast Telegraph.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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A touch of Frost to a heated atmosphere: Weeks 6-12 of implementing the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland
Komarova, M., Hayward, K. & Rosher, B., 02 Apr 2021Research output: Other contribution
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Brexit and the NI Protocol: changing constitutional relations?
Hayward, K., 30 Mar 2021, (Accepted) The Writ – The Journal of the Law Society of Northern Ireland.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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Predictable uncertainty: The first six weeks under the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland
Komarova, M., Hayward, K. & Rosher, B., 26 Feb 2021Research output: Other contribution
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The Irish border as sign and source of British-Irish tensions
Hayward, K., Leary, P. & Komarova, M., 25 Feb 2021, Handbook on Human Security, Borders and Migration. Ribas-Mateos, N. & Dunn, T. (eds.). Edward Elgar, p. 357-372Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Open AccessFile14 Downloads (Pure)
Prizes
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Political Communicator of the Year
Hayward, Katy (Recipient), 13 Dec 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
Hayward, Katy (Recipient), Sep 2005
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Research Fellowship: International Research Initiative in Irish Studies
Hayward, Katy (Recipient), Oct 2007
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Activities
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Is the UK Stronger or Weaker after 20 Years of Devolution?
Paula Devine (Organiser), Ann Marie Gray (Organiser), Katy Hayward (Invited speaker) & John Curtice (Invited speaker)
19 Feb 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Brexit & Northern Ireland
Katy Hayward (Keynote speaker)
Jan 2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited or keynote talk at national or international conference
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Brexit & Northern Ireland
Katy Hayward (Speaker)
Jan 2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Attitudes towards Irish unification in Northern Ireland after Brexit
Paula Devine (Organiser), Katy Hayward (Speaker), Milena Komarova (Speaker) & Ben Rosher (Speaker)
17 Jun 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Northern Ireland's Changed Political Landscape
Katy Hayward (Speaker)
01 Dec 2019Activity: Other activity types › Other
Press / Media
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Now Stormont is back, Northern Ireland has hope once again
14/01/2020
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Compromise needed to finally 'fix' boundary issue
23/03/2018
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Home Office’s lack of action on post-Brexit Border ‘is shocking’
28/07/2017
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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A frictionless Border is impossible, an invisible one undesirable
15/07/2017
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment