Mr Nicholas Herriot
School of Humanities
College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities
I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Historical and Classical Studies. My dissertation researches links between the labour and environmental movements in Australia since 1975. The thesis combines archival and oral history research to explore how political activists have sought to align working-class and environmental concerns.Previously, my history honours thesis, for which I was awarded both the Lynda Tapp Prize and the Tinline Scholarship, documented student radicalism at Flinders University during the ‘long 1960s’. I have published on this subject in Labour History and Studies in Oral History.In 2023, I participated in a collaborative research project on working-class environmentalism in Scotland, based at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. This research illuminated how working people and their communities have been impacted by and responded to environmental injustice.I work broadly in the field of Australian history, with a particular interest in labour and environmental history, social movements, political radicalism and oral history.
| Date | Position | Institution name |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 - 2023 | Research Fellow | University of Strathclyde |
| 2022 - 2023 | Research Assistant | University of Adelaide |
| Date | Type | Title | Institution Name | Country | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Award | Tom Sheridan Scholarship | Labour History Society of South Australia | Australia | - |
| 2021 | Award | The Lynda Tapp Prize in Honours History | The University of Adelaide | Australia | - |
| 2021 | Award | The Tinline Scholarship in History | The University of Adelaide | Australia | - |
| Date | Institution name | Country | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 - 2025 | University of Adelaide | Australia | Doctor of Philosophy |
| 2021 - 2021 | University of Adelaide | Australia | Honours Degree of Bachelor of Arts |
| 2019 - 2019 | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | Bachelor of Arts (Exchange) |
| 2018 - 2020 | University of Adelaide | Australia | Bachelor of Arts (Advanced) |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Herriot, N. (2025). From “Modern Midas Mineral” to “Satanic Substance”: Uranium, Unions, and the Atomic Age. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 71(4), 735-752. |
| 2024 | Herriot, N. (2024). The emergence of Global Maoism: China's Red Evangelism and the Cambodian Communist Movement, 1949-1979. Journal of the Society for Asian Humanities, 55, 162-164. |
| 2024 | Herriot, N. (2024). Unsettling Certainties: Emotions Exhibited. Emotions: History, Culture, Society, 8(1), 165-167. |
| 2024 | Herriot, N., & Sendziuk, P. (2024). Introduction: Oral History and Working Lives. Studies in Oral History, (46), 7-20. |
| 2023 | Herriot, N., & Sendziuk, P. (2023). “The Best Way to Help Vietnam is to Make Revolution in Your Own Country”: Student Radicalism at Flinders University in the Long 1960s. Labour History, 124(1), 163-189. |
| 2023 | Herriot, N., & Sendziuk, P. (2023). Becoming Activists: 1960s Student Radicalism at Flinders University. Radical Currents, Labour Histories, (3), 23-25. |
| 2023 | Herriot, N. (2023). The ‘People’s Registry’ and the Long Afterlife of Student Radicalism. Studies in Oral History, (45), 27-50. |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Herriot, N. (2025). Keeping it in the ground: pasts, presents and futures of Australian uranium. Overland. |
Course Convenor
HIST 1109 Revolutions that Changed the World (S2 2025)
Tutor
HIST 2051 Australia and the World (S2 2024)
| Date | Role | Committee | Institution | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 - ongoing | Member | State Executive | Labour History Society of South Australia | Australia |
| Date | Role | Membership | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 - ongoing | Member | Oral History Australia SA/NT | Australia |
| 2023 - ongoing | Member | Australian Historical Association | Australia |
| 2021 - ongoing | Member | Labour History Society of South Australia | Australia |
| Date | Title | Engagement Type | Institution | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 - ongoing | 'Stories from the Archives, from Foundation to Federation', South Australia's History Festival | Public Community Engagement | State Records of South Australia, Barr Smith Library and History Trust of South Australia | - |
| Date | Role | Editorial Board Name | Institution | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 - 2024 | Consulting Editor | Studies in Oral History | Oral History Australia | Australia |
| Date | Topic | Presented at | Institution | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 - 2024 | The heyday of student radicalism: Historic significance of the 1974 student occupation of Flinders University Registry | Labour History Society (South Australia) | Labour History Society (South Australia) | Australia |
| 2023 - ongoing | 'The environmentalists need your support, and it’s time you were turning out!’: An exploration of labour-environmentalism in Scotland, c. 1975-2020 | Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities Global Connects | Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities | United Kingdom |
| 2023 - ongoing | The history of Scottish working-class environmentalism | Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities | Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities | United Kingdom |
| 2021 - ongoing | ‘The Best Way to Help Vietnam is to Make Revolution in your own Country’: South Australian Student Radicalism in the Long 1960s | Australasian Conference of Undergraduate Research | Australian National University | Australia |
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