Professor Heidi Norman is a leading researcher in the field of Australian Aboriginal political history.
Prof Norman has published widely on histories of Aboriginal land rights, Aboriginal participation in Rugby League, studies of media representation, history of Aboriginal working life in cities and political history of Aboriginal affairs administration.
She was awarded the UTS research excellence medal for collaboration (2015), National Teaching Excellence Award for her work in Indigenous studies (2016), awarded the inaugural Gough Whitlam Research Fellowship (2017-18) and in 2018 she was announced as a 'Top 5' ABC humanities researcher.
She has family connections to Gomeroi lands in north western NSW.