2013 Summit Programme - The Centre for Excellence in Media ...

Professor Sarah Pink (RMIT)
Pre-conference event
Sarah will outline how her work is informed by an appreciation
of the digital and sensory environments in which we now normally
research and work. On the one hand she will suggest that we need
to engage with the world as researchers through a recognition
that we are working in an environment in which environments
online/offline are part of the same places and activities in which
we live and research. On the other Sarah will emphasise how as
researchers we need to account for the ways that these online/
offline digital/material environments are experienced through
sensory, embodied ways of knowing and being. She will then draw
on the example of researching digital media use in the home,
through video ethnography, as a method through which we might
attend to such an appreciation.
Thursday 19th
10.30
Cantor 9131
Sarah Pink is Professor of Design (Media Ethnography) at RMIT
University in Melbourne, Australia. A highly regarded expert on
research design, Sarah’s work is concerned with the development
and application of research approaches that attend theoretically
and methodologically to the ways that people and technologies are
situated and active. Her most recent activity is focused on digital
media, energy consumption, workplace knowing, safety and health
and forms of activism.
Sarah also holds a role at Loughborough University as Professor
of Social Sciences, and where she founded LIQUID – a Qualitative
Research Lab. Here Sarah works across the Schools of Social
Sciences, Design and Civil Engineering. She is currently leading
two research projects in this cross-disciplinary field.
Sarah is also an Honorary Professor at the Centre for Public
Culture and Ideas, Griffith University, Australia and in Germany
she teaches Applied Visual Anthropology at the Free University in
Berlin. She has also worked in Barcelona and Sweden.
NB: This presentation and following discussion will be via Skype.
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