As Senior Lecturer in Heritage and lead for Museums and Heritage Practice, Morn offers courses and supervises in both Archaeology and History.

Morn worked across the heritage sector in Museums Education at Sheffield Museums and Galleries Trust, contributing to major gallery and exhibitions teams at the British Museum and Birmingham Museums Trust, acting as specialist curatorial advisor to the ‘Staffordshire Hoard’ gallery at Birmingham Museums, 2011-2014. She undertakes curatorial consultancy, heritage research and public engagement work and is keen to develop sustainable heritage partnerships linking universities, museums, professionals, students and communities.

Morn is an active researcher exploring relations of power and identity, past and present. Her research explores the development of Anglo-Saxon Mercia, its lordship and leadership, frontiers, and relations (political, cultural, social and economic). Her interdisciplinary Heritage research analyses how archaeological discoveries and relics are preserved and impact on modern people, places and communities via heritage preservation.

Morn is passionate about research projects and outreach promoting sustainable heritage management, community engagement, learning and volunteering, most recently:
• Female Medieval leadership: Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians: travelling exhibition, public conference, book and gallery contribution at Tamworth Castle Museum, with the Universities of Tamworth and Keele.
• Shrewsbury Castle Project excavation and preservation with Dr Nigel Baker, funded by Castle Studies Trust
• Churches Conservation Trust: St Mary’s Church Shrewsbury: Stained Glass Conservation Project: site research and steering group.
•She also contributed to Leverhulme funded ‘Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain’, led by Prof. Jo Story: a cross-disciplinary analysis exploring migration and identity through the movement of objects and DNA in the first Millennium and modern impacts.