Susanna Hedenborg is a Swedish professor of sports science at Malmö University and an associate professor (docent) in economic and social history. Her research focuses on sports history and sports science, especially equestrian sport; childhood history and demographics, including the conditions of children in 18th-century Stockholm; and work and gender relations in horse racing and equestrian culture, including riding schools, trainers, jockeys and media representations.
She earned her PhD in economic history in 1997 with a dissertation on views of and conditions for children in 18th-century Stockholm and later became professor of sports science in 2009. She has written numerous scholarly works on gender and equestrian sport and has also co-authored widely used history textbooks for upper-secondary school and higher education, for which she received a Swedish national teaching materials award in 2012.