Matthew Wengert has worked as a researcher, tutor, and video editor at two Brisbane universities, and as a researcher for independent documentaries. He was the recipient, with Louise Martin-Chew, of the John Oxley Fellowship for 2019, and of the Brisbane City Council’s Lord Mayor’s Helen Taylor History Research Award for 2018: for the latter, he researched Brisbane's experience of the Spanish Flu epidemic, later published as City in Masks (published by AndAlso Books).
Sources include One Page : Brisbane (v1 #1, 34).