Sarah Pink is Professor of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, and during the academic year 2010-11 is Visiting Scholar the IN3 (Internet Interdisciplinary Institute), at the UOC in Barcelona. Her research although rooted in anthropology is interdisciplinary and often makes connections between theoretical and applied scholarship. Her current projects focus on themes of digital media, energy, sustainability and activism in domestic and urban contexts. Her theoretical work investigates questions of place, practice, movement, the image and sensory experience. Most of her work involves the use of visual methods and media. Her books include Home Truths (2004), The Future of Visual Anthropology (2006), Visual Interventions (ed) (2007), Doing Visual Ethnography ([2001] 2007) and Doing Sensory Ethnography (2009). She is currently writing a new book Situating Everyday Life: practices and places, and editing a volume entitled Advances in Visual Methodologies.
In Porto, Sarah Pink's presentation, entitled IMAGES, SENSES AND APPLICATIONS: ENGAGING VISUAL METHODS, will discuss how visual methods are advancing in a contemporary environment where applied, activist, public and interdisciplinary uses of social sciences are increasingly central. It'll first outline some of the ‘hidden’ history of the use of visual methods in applied social research since the middle of the twentieth century. From there it'll continue to discuss how recent theoretical and methodological developments in visual research relating to questions of the senses, movement and digital media are contributing to a new arena of applied and public visual practice in social sciences. This, it'll be suggested, forges new and significant connections between social sciences and other disciplines, inspires theory building and increases the relevance of visual methods in processes of social intervention and public debate.
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