Professor Katy Hayward

Our next Forward Thinking workshop will take place on Wednesday 5th November at 7.00pm in Holywell Trust, with guest contributor Professor Katy Hayward.

Katy is one of the leading political sociologists of the island of Ireland with a high profile in relation to European integration political violence, and the application of discourse analysis.

Katy Hayward is Professor of Political Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work at Queen’s University Belfast, where she is also co-Director of the Centre for International Borders Research. She is a Fellow of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice and an Eisenhower Fellow (through the 2019 Global Ireland programme). In 2019-22 she was a UK in a Changing Europe Senior Fellow, leading a project on ‘The post-Brexit status and future of Northern Ireland’.

Katy will be outlining the research from the Working Group on Unification Referendums on the Island of Ireland - a project examining how any future referendum on the constitutional status of Northern Ireland would be best designed and conducted. Also discussing her work on how Brexit has amplified calls for unification.

About Forward Thinking
The Forward Thinking project is supported by PEACE PLUS, a programme managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB). It is funded through Derry City and Strabane District Council’s PEACEPLUS Local Co-Designed Action Plan, under the theme of Celebrating Cultural Diversity.

Forward Thinking is an adult dialogue project focused around the future of North- South and East-West relationships. It includes exploring constitutional questions and challenges from a diverse range of perspectives, and considers NI in a global context.

To find out more please visit: www.holywelltrust.com/forward-thinking