Heidi Ing

Research Interests

Economic History Demography Migration History of empires, imperialism and colonialism

Dr Heidi Ing

Research Fellow

School of Economics

College of Business and Law

Heidi Ing researches intergenerational social and geographic mobility in settler-colonial societies. She is currently utilising historical microdata and family reconstitution to investigate the collective life courses of immigrants and their descendants.

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
2025 Award South Australian Historian of the Year 2025 History Council of South Australia Australia -

Year Citation
2025 Harris, E., Ing, H., & La Croix, S. (2025). Did Different Rules for Establishing Property Rights in Land Impact Development? Evidence from Colonial South Australia, 1837–1910. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 181(2), 298-342.
DOI
2021 Ing, H. (2021). "Occupational class mobility among the sons and daughters of South Australia's first expedition of 1836". Journal of Australian Colonial History, 23, 129-158.
2021 Ing, H. (2021). Exploring South Australia’s Migration Museum. History Australia, 18(1), 172-173.
DOI
2011 Ing, H. (2011). Germans: Travellers, Settlers and Their Descendants in South Australia. TRANSNATIONAL LITERATURE, 4(1), 3 pages.
2011 Ing, H. (2011). Migration and Cultural Contact: Germany and Australia. TRANSNATIONAL LITERATURE, 3(2), 3 pages.

Year Citation
2025 Ing, H. (2025). Libraries, Museums and Organisations: Who are the Friends of South Australia's Archives?. In Y. Cartledge, & B. Jolly (Eds.), Nooks and Crannies Stories of South Australia. Adelaide: Wakefield Press.
2024 Ing, H. (2024). Colonising Expeditions. In K. Round, S. Kearney, W. Prest, & B. O'Neill (Eds.), The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History (2nd ed.). Adelaide: Wakefield Press.
2019 Ing, H. (2019). Emigrant Choices: Following Emigrant Labourers on the Cusp of the Age of Mass Migration. In P. Payton, & A. Varnava (Eds.), AUSTRALIA, MIGRATION AND EMPIRE: IMMIGRANTS IN A GLOBALISED WORLD (pp. 45-68). PALGRAVE.
DOI

Year Citation
2026 Ing, H. (2026). Fidelia Savage Thornton Hill (1794-1854). People Australia.
2026 Ing, H. (2026). John Samuel August (c1773-1839). People Australia.
2026 Ing, H., ingrams, C., & Laidlaw, Z. (2026). ‘Sir Henry Edward Fox Young (1808-1870)’. People Australia.
2026 Ing, H. (2026). ‘Mary Bell Campbell (1812-1897)’. People Australia.

Date Office Name Institution Country
2024 - 2026 Vice President Professional Historian Association (SA) Australia

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