Rate My Professor Sarah Pink

Professor Sarah Pink holds joint appointments as Professor in the Department of Design, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, and the Department of Human Centred Computing, Faculty of Information Technology, at Monash University. She earned her PhD in Social Anthropology and first-class BA Honours in Social Anthropology from the University of Kent, and an MA in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester. As Director of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab and the FUTURES Hub, she leads interdisciplinary research examining the social, cultural, and experiential aspects of emerging technologies' design, use, and futures. With over 25 years of international collaboration with academic and industry partners, she delivers frequent keynote and public lectures globally. Her research, funded by councils including the Australian Research Council, UK Research and Innovation, Swedish Research Council, and EU programs, as well as industry, addresses contemporary challenges through innovative digital, visual, and sensory methodologies.

Sarah Pink is a world-leading design anthropologist specializing in design and futures anthropologies. Her academic interests encompass automated decision-making, future mobilities, digital energy futures, health and wellbeing design, and net zero transitions. She received the 2023 Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship ($3 million) for investigating human values, practices, and trust in digital and net zero pathways. Other honors include honorary doctorates from Malmö University in Technology and Society and Halmstad University in Information Technology (both 2023), Fellowship of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (2019), Gold Good Design Awards (2023) for 'City Sensing Data Futures' and 'Smart Homes for Seniors', the 2021 Asia Pacific Eldercare Innovation Award and IoT Awards for 'Smart Homes for Seniors', and the 2016 CIOB Best International Paper Award. Key publications include books such as Emerging Technologies / Life at the Edge of the Future (2022), Doing Sensory Ethnography (2015), Doing Visual Ethnography (multiple editions), Digital Materialities: Design and Anthropology (2016), and Design Ethnography: Research, Responsibilities, and Futures (2022). She has directed documentaries including Smart Homes for Seniors and Laundry Lives, amassing over 49,000 Google Scholar citations. Her contributions advance fields like anthropology, design, and technology studies, supporting UN Sustainable Development Goals in energy, cities, and climate action.