Sarah Pink
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sarah Pink (born 12 April 1966) is a British-born social scientist, ethnographer and social anthropologist, now based in Australia, known for her work using visual research methods such as photography, images, video and other media for ethnographic research in digital media and new technologies.[1][2] She has an international reputation for her work in visual ethnography and her book Doing Visual Ethnography, first published in 2001 and now in its 4th edition, is used in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, photographic studies and media studies.[3][4] She has designed or undertaken ethnographic research in UK, Spain, Australia, Sweden, Brazil and Indonesia.
Pink holds a Master of Arts (M.A.) in visual anthropology from the University of Manchester (1990) and a PhD, awarded 1996, in social anthropology, on women and bullfighting in Southern Spain, from the University of Kent in the United Kingdom. From 2000 she was Professor of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK and from 2010 to 2011 she was visiting professor at the Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain. In 2012 she moved to Melbourne, Australia as Distinguished Professor for Design and Media Ethnography and Director of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Pink currently works at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia where is she is director of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab[5] and chief investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society.[6] She also holds visiting professorships in Loughborough University, UK and Halmstad University, Sweden.[7]
She received the 2016 Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM) CIOB Award for the Best International Paper for the paper Using Participatory Video to Understand Subcontracted Construction Workers’ Safety Rule Violations.[8] The documentary Laundry Lives: Everyday Life & Environmental Sustainability in Indonesia directed by Sarah Pink and Nadia Astari was selected for the 9th Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival (TIEFF) in 2017.[9]
Pink was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2019.[7] She was awarded an Australian Laureate Fellowship in 2023 for her research into the digital economy and net zero carbon transition.[10]
