Allison Haywood

Allison Joy Haywood (born ) is a planktonologist from New Zealand.

Haywood completed her doctorate degree at the University of Auckland, focusing on molecular systematics. Her thesis project aimed to rapidly identify toxic algae which can cause serious food poisoning.

In 2001, while working at the Cawthron Institute in Nelson, New Zealand, Haywood successfully applied for a fellowship from the L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science. She was the first recipient of such an award or fellowship from the Southern Hemisphere. Haywood used the fellowship to visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in the United States. Her post-doctoral work was at the Florida Marine Institute.