diff --git a/djangoldp_notification/factories.py b/djangoldp_notification/factories.py
index a3aa207d17bd9ff18d940a01d1d455c01c251d23..e36dd62da6101d64b08a15805e80e4f08f7557ee 100644
--- a/djangoldp_notification/factories.py
+++ b/djangoldp_notification/factories.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ class NotificationFactory(factory.django.DjangoModelFactory):
 
     type = factory.Faker('text', max_nb_chars=50)
     summary = factory.Faker('paragraph', nb_sentences=3, variable_nb_sentences=True)
-    author_user = factory.Faker('url')
+    author = factory.Faker('url')
     user = factory.Iterator(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL.objects.all())
     date = factory.Faker('past_datetime')
     unread = factory.Faker('boolean')
diff --git a/djangoldp_notification/migrations/0005_auto_20190507_0858.py b/djangoldp_notification/migrations/0005_auto_20190507_0858.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5fcaaa81d04133219b0fbd131e0c6b41300d5548
--- /dev/null
+++ b/djangoldp_notification/migrations/0005_auto_20190507_0858.py
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Generated by Django 1.11 on 2019-05-07 08:58
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+from django.db import migrations
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    dependencies = [
+        ('djangoldp_notification', '0004_auto_20190425_1141'),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.RenameField(
+            model_name='notification',
+            old_name='author_user',
+            new_name='author',
+        ),
+    ]
diff --git a/djangoldp_notification/models.py b/djangoldp_notification/models.py
index aa7a8bce003b207899cde064ac02e26a004941fa..e2da1b27d07ed549b5ac8e30f44867aa204bd155 100644
--- a/djangoldp_notification/models.py
+++ b/djangoldp_notification/models.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ from django.template import loader
 
 class Notification(Model):
     user = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, related_name='inbox', on_delete=models.deletion.CASCADE)
-    author_user = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, on_delete=models.deletion.CASCADE)
+    author = LDPUrlField()
     object = LDPUrlField()
     type = models.CharField(max_length=255)
     summary = models.TextField()