Professor Sarah Pink

Professor Sarah Pink is a design anthropologist, author and documentary filmmaker.

She is Director of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab in the Department of Human Centred Computing in the Faculty of Information Technology, and the Department of Design in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Monash University.

She is also an Associate Director of Monash Energy Institute and a Chief Investigator in both the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society and the Algorand Centre of Excellence for Sustainability Informatics in the Pacific, and a member of the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia.

Professor Pink began her academic career in the United Kingdom, where she studied a Bachelor of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology at the University of Kent, and a Master of Arts in Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester.

Professor Pink’s research focuses on the question of how humans and technologies will live together in future sustainable worlds, and she has collaborated with many academic and industry partners across the world to deliver new insights and foresights. She is known internationally for her interdisciplinary research.

She is currently Guest Professor in the School of Information Technology at Halmstad University in Sweden, and Visiting Professor in the School of Design at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom, and has held permanent or honorary fellowships in Australia, the United Kingdom Denmark and Germany in faculties as diverse as social sciences, civil and building engineering, media and communications as well as in information technology and design.

Professor Pink’s most recent books include Emerging Technologies / Life at the Edge of the Future (2022), Everyday Automation (2022), Anthropology of Technologies and Futures (2022), Energy Futures (2022) and Design Ethnography (2022). Her latest documentary films are Smart Homes for Seniors (2021) and Digital Energy Futures (2022).