Dr. Nicholas Herriot is an early career researcher in labour, environmental, and social movement history. His particular interests include the history of work and workers' movements, political radicalism, oral history, and environmentalism.
 
Nicholas's PhD thesis, which received a Dean's Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence, investigated relations between the labour and environmental movements in Australia during the late twentieth century. Drawing on extensive archival and oral history research, this innovative research explored efforts by activists to align working-class and environmental concerns during a period of economic restructuring, political realignment and environmental conflict.
 
Previously, Nicholas's Honours thesis, awarded both the Lynda Tapp Prize and the Tinline Scholarship, examined student radicalism at Flinders University during the ‘long 1960s’.
 
In 2026, Nicholas was awarded the History Council of South Australia Fellowship for his project, 'Leave it in the Ground: South Australia, Uranium, and the Atomic Age'. The project investigates how South Australians mobilised against uranium mining, with a focus on political controversies during the 1970s and early 1980s.
 
Nicholas has also undertaken international research. In 2023, he was awarded a prestigious British Council EARTH Scholarship at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, where he undertook a research project on working-class environmentalism in Scotland. This project illuminated how working people and their communities have been impacted by and responded to environmental injustice.
 
He is currently an ARC Grant-Funded Researcher on the Project, 'People, Places and Promises: Social Histories of Holden in Australia'.
 
An experienced and engaging teacher, Nicholas has undertaken course coordination and teaching roles at Adelaide University. He writes for general audiences in addition to his numerous academic publications. He also serves on the executive of the Labour History Society (South Australia)