Bronwyn Hayward’s research while affiliated with University of Canterbury and other places

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Publications (11)


Lessons for Democracy from a Decade of Disasters
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February 2022

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Bronwyn Hayward

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This chapter reflects on the impacts of significant disasters in Ōtautahi Christchurch between 2010 and 2020, particularly impacts for young citizens who have faced an unprecedented series of disasters including earthquakes, fires, floods, drought, terror attacks and a pandemic. Youth have mobilised in response to these events and yet government responses have at times been deeply disempowering, supressing rather than encouraging youthful agency. This chapter considers the way Christchurch’s experiences shed light on broader challenges facing liberal democracies. In an increasingly chaotic and uncertain climate future, characterised by frequent and cascading crises, the question of how we maintain democratic practises during disruption is an urgent one. We highlight the importance of youthful participation in disaster recovery and the wider struggle to ensure democratic practices are inclusive, equitable and accountable particularly for children, youth and future generations.KeywordsCanterbury earthquake sequenceDemocracyDisaster recoveryStudent Volunteer ArmyYouth agencyYouth participation


Conversations on Citizenship, Critical Hope, and Climate Change: An Interview with Bronwyn Hayward
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January 2022

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Bronwyn Hayward is a professor of political science at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. Bronwyn’s scholarship focuses on the intersections of youth, sustainability, and climate change. She is director of the University of Canterbury Hei Puāwaitanga Sustainable Citizenship and Civic Imagination research group and co-principal investigator for the University of Surrey’s Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP). She is lead author on two reports for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Her most recent publication is Children, Citizenship, and Environment #SchoolStrikeEdition . In this interview, Bronwyn and Sara discuss the complexities of educating for uncertain futures, specifically around climate change. We explore Bronwyn’s work with the IPCC, the Children and Youth Sustainable Lifestyles in Cities (CYCLES) project, and her foundational scholarship on ecological citizenship. This interview took place via Zoom in September 2020, in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand.

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FIGURE 1 | Response distribution of young people's reported motivations to strike and their sense of agency (N 314).
FIGURE 2 | Comparing young protesters reported motivations for taking part in a climate protest across cities. Kruskal-Wallis tests with pairwise comparisons adjusted for the Bonferroni correction for multiple tests. Two-tailed significance levels are reported for pairwise comparisons with Christchurch as the reference *p < 0.05, **p < 0.05.
FIGURE 3 | Comparing young protesters reported sense of agency across cities. Kruskal-Wallis H tests with pairwise comparisons adjusted for the Bonferroni correction for multiple tests. Two-tailed significance levels are reported for pairwise comparisons with Christchurch as the reference *p < 0.05, **p < 0.05.
Descriptive analysis of independent variables.
Descriptive comparison of protesters and non-protesters across independent variables.
Youth Attitudes and Participation in Climate Protest: An International Cities Comparison Frontiers in Political Science Special Issue: Youth Activism in Environmental Politics

September 2021

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Frontiers in Political Science

This article examines youth participation the school climate strikes of 2018 and 2019 (also known as #Fridays4Future), through an exploratory study conducted in seven diverse cities. Despite the international nature of the climate strikes, we know little about the factors that influenced youth participation in these protests beyond the global North. This matters because youth of the global South are disproportionately impacted by climate change and there is growing concern that the climate movement is dominated by narratives that marginalize the voices and priorities of Indigenous communities and people of color. In this context, the exploratory research reported here aimed to compare the attitudes of climate protesters ( n = 314) and their non-protester peers ( n = 1,217), in diverse city samples drawn from a wider study of children and youth aged 12–24 years, living in Christchurch (New Zealand); Dhaka (Bangladesh); Lambeth, London (United Kingdom); Makhanda (South Africa); New Delhi (India); São Paulo (Brazil); and Yokohama (Japan). Using cross-sectional data ( N = 1,531) and binary logistic regression models, researchers examined three common explanations for youth participation in protest: availability (biographical and structural), political engagement (reported individual and collective efficacy of strikers and non-strikers), and self-reported biospheric values amongst participants. Results indicate that even in diverse city samples, structural availability (civic skills and organizational membership) predicted strike participation across city samples, but not political engagement (self-efficacy and collective efficacy). Youth who reported that ‘living in harmony with nature and animals’ was important for their wellbeing, were also more likely to strike than their peers. Descriptive statistics indicated that the majority (85 percent) of all protestors in this study agreed climate change was a serious issue and a startling 65 percent said that they think about climate change “all the time”. Reported rates of youth climate protest participation varied across city samples as did the extent to which participants reported having friends take part or expecting climate change to have a personal impact. While the study is exploratory, it points to the need for more extensive research to understand the diversity of youth participation in ‘global climate strikes’.


Social agency and ecoliteracy: Seeds of change for teacher education in uncertain climate futures

December 2020

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In this article, we discuss the importance of developing the skills of ecological citizenship for teachers and students. In particular we consider how we can support teaching practice to develop the skills of social agency and ecoliteracy. We argue that these skills are essential for building teacher and student capabilities to co-create regenerative futures on a warming planet. In this discussion we reflect on our experiences as educators and researchers invested in place-based education, sustainability, climate justice research, democracy, and citizenship education. We highlight some of the tools and approaches that we have used in supporting both preservice teachers, and children, to learn these skills of ecological citizenship.


Young people and environmental affordances in urban sustainable development: insights into transport and green and public space in seven cities

October 2020

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Sustainable Earth

Background Cities are at the fore of sustainability challenges of the twenty-first century, and many, particularly in Asia and Africa, are predominantly youthful spaces. Understanding young people’s experiences in urban environments is therefore important as we strive to achieve both the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement. Two amenities identified in the urban Sustainable Development Goal 11, transport and public and green space, are specifically recognised as applying to youth. Yet, there is little analysis that explicitly considers how youth experience these amenities across the Global North and South, and no current measures for understanding progress in youth experiences of green space and transport. Results This paper provides a comparative analysis of young people’s experiences with local transport and green space in seven diverse urban communities (Christchurch, New Zealand; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Lambeth/London, UK; Makhanda, South Africa; New Delhi, India; São Paulo, Brazil; and Yokohama, Japan). Our study contributes to a growing body of literature that seeks to listen to child and youth perspectives to understand their environmental experiences. We examine the ‘affordances’ young residents aged 12 to 24 years currently associate with green space and transport amenities. Affordances are defined here as the inter-relationships between what a local environment offers young people and their perceptions and actions. Drawing on focus groups and interviews conducted with 332 young people, we identify five affordances young people associate in relation to transport and public space across these diverse urban settings: (1) social inclusion and belonging; (2) autonomy; (3) physical comfort and security; (4) relaxation and reflection; and (5) health and fitness. Conclusions The paper contributes to growing interdisciplinary research interest in measuring affordances as a way to advance the Sustainable Development Goals in an urban context. In providing a comparative account of young people’s experiences across diverse contexts, our discussion highlights how affordances in relation to transport or public and green space can help understand the multiple interconnections between the well-being of young people and sustainability. In particular, we argue that it is not merely the provision of transport or public and green space that matters, but the nuanced meaning of places and experiences as understood by local communities that needs to be recognised if we are to better support urban youth wellbeing and advance sustainable development goals.


Ethics in context: essential flexibility in an international photo-elicitation project with children and young people

October 2019

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Existing literatures have discussed both ethical issues in visual research with young people, and the problems associated with applying ‘universal’ ethical guidelines across varied cultural contexts. There has been little consideration, however, of specific issues raised in projects where visual research is being conducted with young people simultaneously in multiple national contexts. This paper contributes to knowledge in this area. We reflect on our experiences of planning and conducting the International CYCLES project involving photo elicitation with young people in Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa and the UK. While some issues such as varying access to technology for taking and sharing photos and diverse cultural sensitivities around the use of photography were anticipated in advance, others were more unexpected. Balancing the need for methods to be appropriate, ethical and feasible within each setting with the desire for sufficient consistency across the project is challenging. We argue that an ‘ethics in context’ approach and an attitude of ‘methodological immaturity’ is critical in international visual research projects with young people.


It's not “too late”: Learning from Pacific Small Island Developing States in a warming world

October 2019

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Wiley interdisciplinary reviews: Climate Change

The scale and speed of action required to limit global warming is unprecedented. However, claims that it is “too late” to act or that societal collapse is “inevitable,” must be challenged, particularly in the context of Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS). Here, the serious impacts of sea‐level rise may already be unavoidable, but ongoing global mitigation efforts are essential to avoid further catastrophic impacts. First, narratives of despair reinforce social distancing in ways that make it harder to assert claims of shared responsibility for past climate injustices and mutual obligations in the future. Second, claims that it too late to avoid societal collapse overlook significant adaptation efforts already initiated by PSIDS, particularly those led by women and youth, which are informed by distinctive community values of Vai Nui or Fonofale (interconnected well‐living). These values have sustained PSIDS societies through traumatic histories of colonization, racism, and violence, and are still positioned to support communities suffering now, and when facing future risks. This article is categorized under: Policy and Governance > Governing Climate Change in Communities, Cities, and Regions


Identified effects of student debt on wellbeing.
Student debt and wellbeing: a research agenda

May 2019

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Kōtuitui New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online

With levels of student debt unprecedented and rising in many democracies, growing attention has been given by academics and practitioners to its possible effects for student wellbeing. This article makes three contributions to this debate. First, it offers a critical review of literature that considers the relationship of student debt and wellbeing to open up discussion about the dimensions, limitations and possibilities of the field. Second, the paper points to potential avenues for future research about student debt and wellbeing by considering indicative comments made by New Zealand university students as part of a series of in-depth interviews. Third, the article makes a practical contribution to current debates about the tuition ‘fees free’ policy in New Zealand. We argue that developing a more robust understanding of how student debt affects wellbeing may help to broaden and reinvigorate academic and public debate about student debt.


Table 1 . Summary of three types of dissent and their distinguishing factors.
Exploring youth activism on climate change: Dutiful, disruptive, and dangerous dissent

October 2018

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Ecology and Society

The policies and decisions made today will influence climate and sustainability outcomes for the remainder of this century and beyond, and youth today have a large stake in this future. Many youth are expressing dissent toward economic, social, and environmental policies and practices that contribute to climate change in diverse ways, but clearly not all forms of climate activism have the same impact or repercussions. We have presented a typology for understanding youth dissent as expressed through climate activism. Recognizing the complex empirical reality of youth concerns about climate change, this typology has distinguished three types of activism as dutiful, disruptive, and dangerous dissent. By drawing attention to multiple ways for youth to express their political agency both within and outside of traditional political processes, we have highlighted and analyzed the diverse ways that youth are challenging power relationships and political interests to promote climate-resilient futures.


Citations (8)


... The findings were consistent with the research results by Hayward & Johnson (2022), who proposed the significance of the young generation participation in disaster recovery and struggles to ensure an inclusive, just, and accountable democracy practice specifically for future children, adolescents, and young generation (Hayward & Johnson, 2022). ...

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The tidal flood implications for territorial resilience in the coastal area of Sayung, Demak Indonesia
Lessons for Democracy from a Decade of Disasters
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  • February 2022

... This is closely connected to the concept of 'eco-paralysis' which describes the emotional consequences of caring too much which may put people in a state of 'apathy' as a means of psychologcal and social protection [5]. To counter such reactions of withdrawal and apathy, [43,45] have explored the potential of 'hope' as a collective driving force that goes hand in hand with despair. The discussion on children and emotions such as hope is not new, as this has been amply discussed by authors such as [35] in his work on 'childhood hope'. ...

Conversations on Citizenship, Critical Hope, and Climate Change: An Interview with Bronwyn Hayward

... A cluster of articles discussed factors influencing youth participation in protests, such as social, economic, and situational injustices driving participation in Fridays for Future in the "Global South" (Prendergast et al. 2021); youth perspectives of protests (Arnot et al. 2023); and repertoires of actions-such as increased politicization and linking various injustices related to climate change-conducted by youth protesters (Zamponi et al. 2022). Conversely, Howard, Howell, and Jamieson (2021) investigated the role of parenthood in framing and motivation for action toward intergenerational justice. ...

Youth Attitudes and Participation in Climate Protest: An International Cities Comparison Frontiers in Political Science Special Issue: Youth Activism in Environmental Politics

Frontiers in Political Science

... Framed through the lens of developmental affordances, youth described their local environments as affording (or denying) opportunities for interaction, informal and organized play, meeting new people, and retreating and relaxing with close friends and family. These findings align with work on the role of the built environment in fostering both socialisation and restoration [24,33,90,91]. Youth also identified affordances beyond individual-level connection, notably, a sense of community belonging, attachment, and cultural connection. ...

Young people and environmental affordances in urban sustainable development: insights into transport and green and public space in seven cities

Sustainable Earth

... Researchers face ongoing ethical tensions in the field long after receipt of ethics approval (Canosa et al., 2018). Ethical tensions are contextually situated (Burningham et al., 2019), related to power, positionality, beliefs, norms, expectations, fears, outcomes, and responsibilities. In the context of participatory research with children that emphasizes power sharing between children and adults, such tensions may also be provoked by balancing a recognition of children as change agents while simultaneously holding a responsibility to protect their best interests (Bradbury-Jones et al., 2018;Montreuil et al., 2021). ...

Ethics in context: essential flexibility in an international photo-elicitation project with children and young people

... See Farbotko & Lazrus (2012); Bettini (2013); Verhoeven (2021), andHayward et al. (2020) for critiques of the threat of climate refugee migrations from African and Pacific Island countries to the Global North. ...

It's not “too late”: Learning from Pacific Small Island Developing States in a warming world

Wiley interdisciplinary reviews: Climate Change

... En gran medida se debe al hecho de que la educación superior abarca transiciones en la vida de los estudiantes, en particular el paso de la escuela a aprendizaje autodirigido, la salida de "casa" Para una vida independiente, con mayores responsabilidades, la preparación para una vida profesional, el desarrollo de habilidades interpersonales y competencias para la vida adulta (Hewitt, 2019). Estos procesos que conducen al autodesarrollo tienen un impacto directo e indirecto en la salud y el bienestar de los estudiantes (Nissen et al., 2019). ...

Student debt and wellbeing: a research agenda

Kōtuitui New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online

... Their activism exemplifies how freedom is not predetermined but emerges in the openness and unpredictability of public actions. By engaging in the public sphere, youth activists challenge prevailing narratives, advocate for systemic change, and cultivate new understandings of environmental responsibility (see O'Brien et al. 2018;Marquardt 2020). ...

Exploring youth activism on climate change: Dutiful, disruptive, and dangerous dissent

Ecology and Society