Rate My Professor Viviane Frings

Viviane Frings is a Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Information Empowered Communities Lab in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University’s Department of Human Centred Computing. She earned her PhD in Political Science from Monash University in 2000, an MA in Southeast Asian Studies from the University of Kent, UK, in 1991, and a Graduate Diploma in Information and Knowledge Management, specializing in Archives and Recordkeeping and Library and Information Science, from Monash University in 2015. With multidisciplinary expertise in archival science, information science, Asian studies, and community informatics, she has held teaching and research positions in the Faculty of Information Technology since 2015. Her research interests encompass archival theory, recordkeeping literacy, information culture, information behaviour, the impact of cultural and linguistic influences on information management and preservation, and analogue and digital preservation for sustainable development, including documentation systems for rural and disadvantaged communities. Viviane leads PROTIC III, an interdisciplinary project on Indigenous Data Sovereignty in the Global South.

Her research centers on the preservation of information and utilizing recordkeeping to empower marginalized communities, advocating for recordkeeping literacy in areas with limited information access. She received an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship (2021-2024) to investigate information access and preservation needs of marginalized rural communities in Bangladesh. Other grants include the 2025 Empowerment Charitable Trust grant ($250,000) for Information Empowered Communities and Indigenous Data Sovereignty in the Global South, and a 2024-2025 Monash University Faculty of Information Technology ECA seed grant ($34,000) for co-designing sovereign information solutions with Indigenous communities in Indonesia. Viviane has authored two books, two monographs, four edited books, 25 journal articles, nine conference papers, and nine chapters, predominantly as sole or lead author, in English and French. Notable publications include “Climate change impacts on the recordkeeping practices of community organizations in Bangladesh: toward an adaptive recordkeeping framework” (2026, Archives and Records), “An exploratory study of electronic medical record implementation and recordkeeping culture: the case of hospitals in Indonesia” (2025, BMC Health Services Research), and “Care Leavers’ records: a case for a repurposed archive continuum model” (2018, Archives and Manuscripts). She serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Records Management Journal from January 2025, was Editor-in-Chief of Archives and Manuscripts (2019-2022), and has guest-edited special issues for Archival Science on “Archives in a Changing Climate” and for Gazette des archives on the Archives of Childhood.