Sarah Pink is an international and interdisciplinary scholar who combines theoretical and methodological research with applied practice. She has expertise and experience in themes including digital media, energy, consumption, everyday life, sustainability, activism, tacit and sensory ways of knowing and occupational safety and health. She researches across urban, domestic and workplace environments. Sarah is also global authority on digital visual and sensory ethnography methodologies. To view one of her recent keynote lectures in this area follow this link
http://in-visio.org/2012/10/24/launching-invisio-inspire-sarah-pink-keynote-speech/
Originally trained as an anthropologist she now works and collaborates across design, engineering and arts disciplines to which she brings social and cultural research expertise. She simultaneously pursues her own theoretical and methodological agenda to develop ways of understanding change and intervention.
At RMIT Sarah is co-located in the Design Research Institute and connects with the Digital Ethnography Research Centre in the School of Media and Communication. She joined RMIT in 2012 from Loughborough University (UK), where she now holds a part time Professorship of Social Sciences.
Experience
2000–present
Professor of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK
2011–present
Honorary Professor, Griffith University, Australia
2013–present
Professor of Applied Social and Cultural Analysis, Halmstad University, Sweden
2012–present
Professor of Design and Media Ethnography, RMIT University, Australia
Education
1996
University of Kent, UK, PhD in Social Anthropology
1990
University of Manchester, UK, MA in Visual Anthropology
Publications
2013
Doing Visual Ethnography, Sage: London
2013
Ethnographic Research in the Construction Industry, Routledge: Oxford
2012
Situating Everyday Life, Sage: London
2012
Advances in Visual Methodology, Sage: London
2009
Doing Sensory Ethnography, Sage: London
2007
Visual Interventions, Berghahn: Oxford
2006
The Future of Visual Anthropology, Routledge: Oxford
2005
Applications of Anthropology, Berghahn: Oxford
2004
Home Truths, Berg: Oxford
1997
Women and Bullfighting, Berg: Oxford
Grants and Contracts
2013
Locating the Mobile:intergenerational locative media practices in Tokyo, Melbourne and Shanghai
Role:
CI
Funding Source:
ARC Linkage, Australia
2013
SMEs and micro organisations engagement with occupational safety and health
Role:
Partner Investigator
Funding Source:
IOSH, UK
2013
Complex, Clever, Cool: understanding and imagining smart, sustainable, laundry
Role:
CI
Funding Source:
Unilever
2011
Management of OSH in Networked Systems of Production or Service Delivery: Comparisons between Healthcare, Construction and Logistics