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Biographical Sketch
Dr Joel Hayward taught strategy and operational art at the Joint Services Command and Staff College before becoming, in November 2005, the Head of the Air Power Studies Division created by the Royal Air Force and King's College London. He and the department of academics he created are based at the historic and prestigious Royal Air Force College, Cranwell, of which he was appointed the Dean in April 2007. Four months later he was also appointed a Director of the Royal Air Force Centre for Air Power Studies (RAF CAPS), a national think-tank. Dr Hayward is additionally a member of the CAS Air Power Workshop, a small working group of scholars and other theorists convened by the Chief of Air Staff. He is also the academic lead, and conceptual designer, of the RAF’s new MA degree, Air Power in the Modern World (taught by King’s), as well as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Global War Studies, the Baltic Defence and Security Review and the Air Power Review.
A former Senior Lecturer in Defence and Strategic Studies at the Centre for Defence Studies in New Zealand, his birth country, Dr Hayward has taught in, or lectured to, many officer cadet colleges and command and staff colleges around the world. He continues to teach or advise on air power matters at military academies and colleges throughout Europe and beyond and is frequently invited abroad as a keynote speaker at major air power and defence conferences. He also speaks as an on-camera analyst on television documentaries, most recently a German ZDF historical documentary on air power. Additionally, he provides ’’expert’’ advice in media interviews on defence and especially air power topics.
He has written or edited eight books (including fiction and poetry) and dozens of peer-reviewed academic articles and book chapters, as well as countless newspaper pieces. He is widely considered to be an expert on air-land integration. While retaining his primary focus on operational air power, Dr Hayward has a wide-ranging intellectual curiosity and nowadays gains greatest pleasure from researching and writing on the ethics of air power and the complex relationship between air power and ecology. Some of his works have been translated into German, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish and Serbian. In May 2007 three of Dr Hayward's earlier articles on air power strategy and operational art were considered sufficiently meritorious to be republished by eminent English historian Professor Jeremy Black in a volume of ’’seminal articles’’ on the Second World War. Dr Hayward is currently under contract with Cambridge University Press to author what he hopes will be a pioneering new study: An Ecological History of War: The Environment Consequences of Warfare from Antiquity to the Present.
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