Section: Staff Profiles
Tim Hayward
- Name
- Professor Tim Hayward
- Title
- Professor of Environmental Political Theory; Director of Just World Institute; Programme Director of MSc International Political Theory
- Organisation
- Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh - Address
- 4.09 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
- Telephone
- +44 (0)131 650 4238
- tim.hayward@ed.ac.uk
- URL
- http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/staff_profiles/hayward_tim
Office Hours:
Meetings by appointment only, as I am currently on sabbatical leave.
Research Interests
Tim's current research examines the relation between human rights and global justice, with a particular focus on natural resource issues and the concept of ecological debt.
He is Director of the Just World Institute, Convenor of the Political Theory Research Group, and Programme Director of the MSc in International Political Theory.
PhD Supervision
Tim can offer PhD supervision in most areas of contemporary political theory. Especially welcome are applications in the field of international political theory and/or environmental and/or rights theory.
Publications
Books
Constitutional Environmental Rights (Oxford University Press, 2005)
Political Theory and Ecological Values (Polity Press, 1998)
Ecological Thought: An Introduction (Polity Press, 1995)
Recent articles
‘On the Nature of Our Debt to the Global Poor’, Journal of Social Philosophy 39.1 (2008)
'Global Justice and the Distribution of Natural Resources', Political Studies 54.2 (2006)
'Ecological Citizenship: a rejoinder [to Andrew Dobson]', Environmental Politics 15.3 (2006)
Earlier articles, book chapters, and other publications can be found here.
Topics interested in supervising
global justice; human rights; environmental rights; rights theory; ecological debt; environmental security; dialectical theory; ethics and international affairs
This page was published on 2 January 2012