Deirdre Heddon (born 1969), is Professor of Contemporary Performance at the University of Glasgow (UK).
She is a practice-based researcher and has published articles in peer-reviewed journals, as well as academic monographs and book-chapters.
[1][2] Her edited collection, Histories and Practices of Live Art, co-edited with Jennie Klein, was published in 2012 by Palgrave Macmillan.
Heddon is co-editing a newly launched series for Palgrave Macmillan, Performing Landscapes, for which she is writing Performing Landscapes: Forests.
Heddon undertakes practice-based research, much of it in relation to walking.