Historian, History Trust of South Australia
Heidi Ing is a social historian with a research interest in intergeneration occupational mobility, networks, and institutions. After a career as an educator and librarian, Heidi Ing completed her PhD with Flinders University in 2020. Her doctoral thesis was on the occupational and geographic mobility of the individuals who arrived with South Australia’s ‘First Expedition’ in 1836. In 2022, under a Fellowship with the History Council of South Australia, she investigated the life course of those who claimed land in Adelaide in March 1837. She is currently researching the experiences of South Australia’s early arriving settler-colonists, with a focus on land purchase, occupations, and social structure. Heidi Ing has worked as a consultant and research assistant with the History Trust of South Australia on projects such as The South Australian Stories Survey Initiative (SASSi), The House of History at Ayers House, and Australian Legacies of Slavery: Capital, Land and Labour.