Sarah Pedersen

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Sarah Pedersen
Occupation(s)Researcher and author
EmployerRobert Gordon University
Known forResearch into suffrage and women's rights in Scotland

Sarah Pedersen is an academic researcher and writer. Pedersen's research focuses on women's engagement with the media and politicians. [1] She holds a chair as Professor of Communication and Media at Robert Gordon University, in Scotland.

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Career

Pedersen studied history at York University and did a Masters in Medieval History and drama, before moving into publishing. In her academic career, she joined Robert Gordon's University as professor in publishing, and in her own writing she uses modern and historical sources. [2] She is the author of The Scottish Suffragettes and the Press [3] In 2017 she gained Heritage Lottery funding to write about Aberdeen suffragette and journalist Caroline Phillips. Pederson also investigated correspondence from women in the public and private sphere during World War One. [4] [5]

She was the Director of the Rise Up Quines! festival in Aberdeen in 2018 [6] and established Quinepedia – a digital biographical dictionary and celebration of women, and women's history in North-East Scotland. [7] [8] [9] She has published a web based map of women's suffrage actions in Aberdeen. [10]

Pedersen has written about the politicising of MumsNet [11] [12] and the protests by women against the Scottish Government's proposed reforms of the Gender Recognition Act. [13] Her work also extended to blogging in general [14] and police staff blogging in particular. [15]

She writes about women's participation in higher education and in academia. [16]

Census protests

Pedersen drew connections between the historical protest actions of the suffragettes in relation to the 1911 census and the attempts by organisations such as For Women Scotland, to disrupt the 2022 Scottish census administration.

Protesters used their census returns to register a protest around guidance relating to the Sex question. The protest was designed to confound the processing of data and the use of machines to read the forms . Although protesters hoped their protests would be visible to future history researchers in 100 years’ time data-protection policies mean many of their actions were not recorded. [17]

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References

  1. ↑ Pedersen, Sarah (2018-04-04). "Press response to women politicians". Journalism Studies. 19 (5): 709–725. doi:10.1080/1461670X.2016.1200953. hdl:10059/1553. ISSN   1461-670X. S2CID   148043323.
  2. ↑ Gale, Ellen. "Professor Sarah Pedersen: A view of women in academics". www.rguunion.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-03-31.
  3. ↑ Pedersen, Sarah (2017). The Scottish suffragettes and the press. London, United Kingdom. ISBN   978-1-137-53834-5. OCLC   992988822.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ↑ Pedersen, Sarah (2020-09-01), "'One Who Has Sacrificed': The Use of 'High Diction' in Women's Correspondence to Scottish Newspapers during the First World War", Scottish Literature and World War I, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 81–99, doi:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474454599.003.0004, ISBN   978-1-4744-5459-9, S2CID   239121949 , retrieved 2023-03-31
  5. ↑ Pedersen, Sarah (2018-06-07). "Suffragettes and the Scottish Press during the First World War". Women's History Review. 27 (4): 534–550. doi:10.1080/09612025.2017.1292620. hdl:10059/2187. ISSN   0961-2025. S2CID   151748376.
  6. ↑ Haslam, Dale (2018-09-01). "Aberdeen to host new festival marking 100 years of women's right to vote". Society. Retrieved 2023-03-31.
  7. ↑ "Celebrating North-East women with a call for contributions to Quinepedia | Impactful Research | RGU". www.rgu.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-03-31.
  8. ↑ "Quinepedia". Being Human Festival. 10 November 2022. Retrieved 2023-03-31.
  9. ↑ Drysdale, Neil (14 October 2022). "BIG INTERVIEW: Sarah Pedersen highlights the launch of Quinepedia but worries about women's rights being eroded by Covid". Press and Journal. Retrieved 2023-03-31.
  10. ↑ "The Aberdeen Women's Suffrage Campaign". suffrageaberdeen.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-03-31.
  11. ↑ Pedersen, Sarah (2020). The politicization of Mumsnet (First ed.). Bingley, UK. ISBN   978-1-83909-470-5. OCLC   1199056453.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  12. ↑ Pedersen, Sarah (2022-01-31). ""It's what the suffragettes would have wanted": the construction of the suffragists and suffragettes on Mumsnet". Feminist Media Studies. 23 (4): 1543–1558. doi: 10.1080/14680777.2022.2032788 . ISSN   1468-0777. S2CID   246464598.
  13. ↑ Pedersen, Sarah (2022). "They've got an absolute army of women behind them': The Formation of a Women's Cooperative Constellation in Contemporary Scotland". Scottish Affairs. 31 (1): 1–20. doi:10.3366/scot.2022.0394. S2CID   246762983.
  14. ↑ Pedersen, Sarah (2010). Why blog? : motivations for blogging. Oxford. ISBN   978-1-78063-171-4. OCLC   867050136.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  15. ↑ Burnett, Simon; Pedersen, Sarah; Smith, Robert; O’Neill, Anne (March 2012). "Venting, joining and educating: Motivations for knowledge sharing in the UK police blogosphere". Business Information Review. 29 (1): 57–63. doi:10.1177/0266382112438689. hdl:10059/812. ISSN   0266-3821. S2CID   154660929.
  16. ↑ Gale, Ellen. "Professor Sarah Pedersen: A view of women in academics". www.rguunion.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-03-31.
  17. ↑ Pedersen, Sarah (February 2023). "'Believers in Biology': A Co-ordinated Effort to Disrupt the 2022 Census". Scottish Affairs. 32 (1): 1–18. doi:10.3366/scot.2023.0440. ISSN   0966-0356. S2CID   256881363.
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