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Recording Available to View: Professor Bronwyn Hayward Presentation
Posted 29 04 2024
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On April 4th, Prof Bronwyn Hayward (MNZM, FRSNZ) spoke to members of the Canterbury Westcoast Branch at Beca's offices in Christchurch. With thanks to Firth's sponsorship, a recording of the Event is now available. We would like to thank Professor Hayward for her insightful presentation, as well the NZILA members who were able to attend.
There are three recordings (segmented), all of which can be found on the NZILA Youtube page.
Full Recording: 55minutes
Prof Hayward Presentation: 25minutes
Q&A Session: 27minutes
Also, a special thank-you to Bernice Cummings, Architectural Consultant at Firth, for joining us on the evening, and to Jesse Byrne, Canterbury Westcoast Branch Chair, for his assistance with organising the event.
For those who aren't familiar with Professor Hayward's work, she is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Canterbury University and Director of The Sustainable Citizenship and Civic Imagination Research group. Her research sits at the intersection of sustainability, youth, climate change and democracy.
Bronwyn was a member of the Core writing team of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change AR6 (Synthesis report 2023) and co-lead author of Cities & infrastructure (2022) and lead author of the IPCC Special Report on 1.5 Degrees C (2018). She is co-primary investigator with University of Surrey's ESRC funded CUSP: Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity, where she leads the CYCLES Children and Youth in Cities lifestyle Evaluation study in 7 world cities. She is a Co-PI of the national Science Challenge Mana Rangatahi, supporting Indigenous young people facing climate change.
She was an Erskine Fellow with University College, Oxford, UK 2017.
Recent books: Children, Citizenship and Environment (Routledge, 2012) and a significantly revised second; #SchoolStrike edition, Routledge London, 2021; and Sea Change: Climate Politics and New Zealand (BWB, 2017).
She has served on the International Social Sciences Council steering committee - Transformative Research, as a co-researcher with University of Oslo, Voices of the Future project, a lead author on UNEP's global survey of 18-35 year olds lifestyles and sustainability & as a trustee for the UK Foundation for Democracy and Sustainability. Outside academia Bronwyn worked for children's TV, as a Ministerial appointment to the NZ Broadcasting Standards Authority & as a trustee for the SPARK Foundation & Give A Little. She was inaugural joint winner of UC Arts Conscience & Critic of Society Research Award 2014, Kiwibank Local Hero 2019, winner in 2021 of Westpac/Stuff media Supreme Woman of Influence & Environment categories.
This was the first of our Climate Discussion Series Talks that we are planning to bring to the membership during 2024/2025.