] Sarah Pink (born 12 April 1966) is a British-born social scientist, Ethnography, ethnographer and

social anthropologist Social anthropology is the study of patterns of behaviour in human societies and cultures. It is the dominant constituent of anthropology throughout the United Kingdom and much of Europe, where it is distinguished from cultural anthropology. In t ...

, 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. 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. She has designed or undertaken ethnographic research in UK, Spain, Australia, Sweden, Brazil and Indonesia.

Education and career

Pink holds a Master of Arts (M.A.) in visual anthropology from the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univ ...

(1990) and a PhD, awarded 1996, in social anthropology, on women and bullfighting in Southern Spain, from the

University of Kent , motto_lang = , mottoeng = Literal translation: 'Whom to serve is to reign'(Book of Common Prayer translation: 'whose service is perfect freedom')Graham Martin, ''From Vision to Reality: the Making of the University of Kent at Canterbury'' ...

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 Monash University () is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Named for prominent World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. The university h ...

in Melbourne, Australia where is she is director of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab and chief investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. She also holds visiting professorships in Loughborough University, UK and Halmstad University, Sweden. 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.'' 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. Pink was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2019.

Research interests

Pink's work focuses on visual methods in ethnographic field research, digital media, everyday life, consumption,

autonomous driving A self-driving car, also known as an autonomous car, driver-less car, or robotic car (robo-car), is a car that is capable of traveling without human input.Xie, S.; Hu, J.; Bhowmick, P.; Ding, Z.; Arvin, F.,Distributed Motion Planning for Sa ...

and sustainability. She has developed new design anthropology techniques, including design ethnographic videomaking and she works on interdisciplinary projects across design, engineering and creative practice disciplines. She is part of the Future Anthropologists Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA). As well as her textbooks on visual ethnography she has published a textbook on sensory ethnography which looks at the ways that smell, taste, touch and vision can be interconnected and interrelated within research. Her current and recent projects use visual, sensory and design ethnographic techniques to investigate emerging intelligent technologies,

automation Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, namely by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machines ...

, data, digital futures, safety and design for wellbeing including autonomous driving vehicles, Mobility as a Service, digital energy futures, self tracking and wearable technologies, smart phone and personal technology futures, digital technology use in everyday life, and health care.

Selected publications

Pink, S. (2021) ''Doing Visual Ethnography.'' Revised and expanded 4th edition, London: Sage, ISBN 9781529743975 Akama, Y., S. Pink and S. Sumartojo (2018) ''Uncertainty and Possibility: new approaches to future making.'' London: Bloomsbury. Pink, S., K. Leder Mackley, R. Morosanu, V. Mitchell and T. Bhamra (2017) ''Making Homes: ethnographies and designs.'' Oxford: Bloomsbury Pink, S. (2015) Doing Sensory Ethnography, 2nd edition, London: Sage, ISBN 9781446287590 Pink, S. (2012) ''Situating Everyday Life: Practices and Places,'' London: Sage. Documentary
Laundry lives: Everyday Life & Environmental Sustainability in Indonesia

References

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