Roberta Carol Blackman-Woods (née Woods; 16 August 1957) is a British academic and former Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the City of Durham from 2005 to 2019.

Blackman-Woods is from Northern Ireland and was educated at the University of Ulster, graduating with a BSc degree and later a PhD in social science.

Blackman-Woods had previously been chair of the City of Durham Constituency Labour Party and before that in Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend.

Following Des Brown's retirement to the backbenches she served as PPS to David Lammy MP as Minister of State for Higher Education.

[5] She resigned from the front bench in June 2016, before supporting Owen Smith in the 2016 Labour leadership election.