Fiona Finn

Fiona Finn is the Program Manager of the Advertising degree in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Australia. She is a highly skilled Art Director with over 20 years industry experience in advertising, design and publishing. She is a creative all-rounder. Over her career she has produced creative, custom and digital advertising, corporate identity, newspapers, magazines, books & websites.

Fiona is a dedicated and accomplished lecturer. She is able to create, coordinate and deliver highly relevant advertising courses. She teaches across a wide range of subjects including; Art Direction, Industry Practice, Creative Advertising, Campaign Strategy, Advanced Creative Advertising and Advertising Capstone. She is driving change in advertising pedagogy to incorporate a gender transformative perspective. Her pedagogy places a strong emphasis on experiential learning, enabling students to engage with complex real world problems facing the advertising industry particularly as it relates to gender representations. 

She has a Masters by Research (High Distinction) from the The School of Graduate Research (EFM). Her thesis is a critical feminist interrogation of the creative practice of femvertising. She is an active researcher in the field of marketing and advertising. 

Areas of interest: Advertising, Marketing, Gender and Social marketing.