Fiannuala (Finn) Morgan
Lecturer, Publishing and Communications, The University of Melbourne
Experience
10 years experience in the Information Services Sector as as a Senior Library Officer, Archivist and Metadata specialist. I have over five years experience tutoring and convening subjects across Cultural Studies, Australian Indigenous Studies, Literature and Digital Humanities at The University of Melbourne and The Australian National University.
Skills
Python, Natural Language Processing, web-mapping, QGIS, Github, Metadata standards
Education
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PhD School of Literature Languages and Linguistics, The Australian National University
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Graduate Diploma of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University
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Masters of Arts (Research), The University of Melbourne
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Bachelor of Media and Communications (Honours), The University of Melbourne
Grants & Awards
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Joint recipient of Climate Research Accelerator (CRX), Melbourne Climate Futures (MCF’s) funding scheme 2023 in collaboration with FLARE research group, University of Melbourne
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Graduate Digital Research Fellowship, Queensland University of Technology, 2021
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Postgraduate Research Scholarship, 2019 – 2022
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Australian Government Research Training Program Domestic Scholarship, 2019 - 2023
Select Publications
Books
Morgan, Fiannuala. 'Aboriginal Writers and Popular Fiction: The Literature of Anita Heiss.' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (2021).
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108779579
Morgan, Fiannuala. 'Black Thursday and Other Lost Australian Bushfire Stories.' Canberra: Orbiter Publishing. (2021)
Articles
Dwyer, G., Marjoribanks, T., Morgan, F., & Farmer, J. (2025). 'Bushfire public inquiries: From recommendations to hybrid emergency management arrangements.' Australian Journal of Public Administration, 1–40. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.70007
Lamond, J., Morgan, F. and Burton, S.-J. (2024) ‘Hansard as Literary Reception: The Uses of Poetry in Australian Political Debate, 1901–1950’, Journal of Australian Studies, pp. 1–15.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2024.2413473
Morgan, Fiannuala. "What lies beneath: Reading Melbourne's CBD Through The Another View Walking Trail." PAN: Philosophy Activism Nature 12 (2016): 69. https://doi.org/10.4225/03/5850ad339e860
Morgan, Fiannuala. 'Reading Ecological Decline in Nineteenth Century Bushfire Serials and Reporting.' Overland. June 28, 2023.
Software & Datasets
Morgan, F. (2021). Historical_Fires_Near_Me (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6622328