On 24 November 2017, Finn presented her first annual Presidential address as President of the Royal Historical Society, discussing the subject of 'Loot' in her series on 'Material Turns in Modern British History'.
In July 2019, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
Professor Finn has supervised a number of PhD students that have gone on to employment at other universities and in the public research and philanthropy sectors. These include:
* [https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/about/reznick_bio.html Dr Jeffrey Reznick, Senior Historian, US National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health]
* [https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/humanities/departments/history/people/sascha.auerbach Dr Sascha Auerbach, Associate Professor in Modern British and Colonial History, University of Nottingham (and former Fulbright Scholar)]
* [https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/individual-scholar-page/?pdb=3369 Dr Katherine Foxhall, Lecturer in Modern History, University of Leicester (and former Wellcome Trust Research Fellow)]