Fiannuala (Finn) Morgan
Lecturer, Publishing & Communications, The University of Melbourne
"I am a Lecturer in Publishing and Communications at the University of Melbourne, with over a decade of experience as a librarian and archivist across cultural institutions. My interdisciplinary research demonstrates how digital collections and computational methods can generate new ways of understanding Australian cultural history, and sits at the intersection of digital humanities, artificial intelligence, and book history. My current research includes studies of the Australian colonial press, where I use computational methods to reconstruct environmental and ecological histories; critical analysis of contemporary metadata standards across industry and cultural institutions; and collaborative research on the use of poetry in Australian parliamentary debate as recorded in Hansard (1901–2016). Across these projects, I develop large-scale datasets that support both historical research and critical analysis."
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

Media
Software & Datasets
Morgan, F. (2021). Historical_Fires_Near_Me (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6622328
Grants & Awards
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Recipient, School of Culture and Communication, Teaching Good Practice Award, awarded for, “Pioneering Ethical and Robust Responses to GenAI in Education,” Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne, 2025.
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Chief Investigator and Inaugural Recipient of Melbourne Public Humanities Initiative for “Historical Fire Records as Community Data: Digitisation, Co-Design, and Climate Research,” Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne
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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
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