Sarah Pink

Professor Sarah Pink

Adjunct Professor

Details

  • College: Design and Social Context
  • Department: Design and Social Context
  • Campus: City Campus Australia
  • sarah.pink@rmit.edu.au

About

Sarah Pink is Professor of Design and Emerging Technologies, and founding Director of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University. Prior to this she was a Distinguished Professor and Director of DERC at RMIT.


Sarah Pink is Professor of Design and Emerging Technologies, and founding Director of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University.

Prior to this, she was RMIT Distinguished Professor and Director of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT.

Sarah is known globally for her interdisciplinary research, and methodological innovation. She has over 20 years experience of working with academic and industry research partners internationally in research councils and industry partnership funded projects.

Sarah frequently gives keynote and public lectures in academic and business environments internationally, and has many academic publications.

Research fields

  • 4701 Communication and media studies
  • 4401 Anthropology
  • 4410 Sociology
  • 4406 Human geography
  • 4702 Cultural studies
  • 4405 Gender studies
  • 3303 Design
  • 3605 Screen and digital media
  • 4404 Development studies
  • 4608 Human-centred computing

Supervisor projects

  • Women’s Healing Knowledge and Sacred Plants in Guacamayas, Colombia
  • 1 Aug 2018
  • Intimate Sensing in Climate Research
  • 22 Feb 2016
  • Away From Home: A photographic research project exploring experiences of presence and absence in relation to home through the transnational lives of families from Burma. 
  • 3 Mar 2014

Teaching interests

Digital media in everyday life; Sustainability and energy; Consumer research; Digital, visual and sensory ethnographic methodologies; Ethnography in design, Arts practice, Construction industry and safety research.

Research interests

Communication and Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Design Practice and Management, Sociology, Building
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