Hayter served as Head of the School of Nursing and Public Health at the Manchester Metropolitan University (2021-2024).

He is an international expert in qualitative research, and has offered highly-cited guidance on the subject.

[3] Hayter is a regular contributor to The Conversation, arguing that nurses should take the HIV self-test to role-model sexual health behaviors to their patients.

[4] He is also a regular contributor to The Guardian encouraging the National Health Service to support an increase in the number and the quality of the training of nurses.

[11] Hayter has 160 publications listed on Web of Science that have been cited more than 2000 times, giving him an h-index of 27.