Sarah Pedersen

Researcher, author on suffrage and women's rights

Professor

Sarah Pedersen

Occupation(s)| Researcher and author
Employer| Robert Gordon University
Known for| Research 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.

## Career

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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

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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]

## References

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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.

## External links

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* Map of Aberdeen suffragette actions [1]

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Women's suffrage in Scotland

Organisations|

* Actresses' Franchise League
* Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage
* Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage
* Northern Men's Federation for Women's Suffrage
* Orcadian Women's Suffrage Society
* Shetland Women's Suffrage Society
* Stornoway Women's Suffrage Society
* United Suffragists
* Women's Freedom League
* Women's Social and Political Union
* Workers' Suffrage Federation

Campaigners|

|  Suffragists|

* Wilhelmina Hay Abbott
* Jane Arthur
* Mary Anne Baikie
* Mary Bell
* Nannie Brown
* Mary Burton
* Mary Bury
* Edward Caird
* Jane Clapperton
* Isabel Cowe
* Jessie Craigen
* Muriel Craigie
* Mary Crudelius
* Margaret C. Davidson
* John McAusland Denny
* Helen Fraser
* Elizabeth Finlayson Gauld
* Edith Hacon
* Mary Henderson
* Elsie Inglis
* Margaret Irwin
* Christina Jamieson
* Jessie Keppie
* Harriet Leisk
* Anna Lindsay
* Thomas Martin Lindsay
* Louisa Lumsden
* Ann Macbeth
* Louisa Macdonald
* Chrystal MacMillan
* Alice McLaren
* Sarah Mair
* Lavinia Malcolm
* Flora Masson
* Lilly Maxwell
* Isabella Fyvie Mayo
* Frances Melville
* Graham Moffat
* Mary Murdoch (Hull)
* Eunice Murray
* Frances Murray
* Sylvia Murray
* Margaret Mylne
* Jessie Newbery
* Grace Paterson
* Elizabeth Pease Nichol
* Elizabeth Margaret Pace
* Emily Rosaline Orme
* Jane Rae
* Marion Kirkland Reid
* Jessie Saxby
* Frances Simson
* Mary Anderson Snodgrass
* Jessie M. Soga
* Mary Somerville
* Catherine Helen Spence
* Flora Stevenson
* Louisa Stevenson
* Charlotte Carmichael Stopes
* Annie S. Swan
* Jane Taylour
* Muriel Thompson
* Isabella Tod
* Eliza Wigham
* Jane Wigham

|

Suffragettes|

* Janie Allan
* Mary Sophia Allen
* Helen Archdale
* Janet Barrowman
* Edith Marian Begbie
* Catherine Hogg Blair
* Jane Esdon Brailsford
* Lucy Burns
* Isabella Carrie
* Dorothea Chalmers Smith
* Lila Clunas
* Catherine Corbett
* Annie Walker Craig
* Helen Crawfurd
* Agnes Dollan
* Marion Wallace Dunlop
* Flora Drummond
* Louise Eates
* Maude Edwards
* Margaret Milne Farquharson
* Ellison Scotland Gibb
* Margaret Skirving Gibb
* Marion Gilchrist
* Frances Graves
* Mary Pollock Grant
* Laura Grey
* Marion Grieve
* Florence Haig
* Edith Hudson
* Agnes Husband
* Maud Joachim
* Mabel Jones
* Alice Stewart Ker
* Isabella Leitch
* Mary Macarthur
* Agnes Syme Macdonald
* Florence Macfarlane
* Margaret Macfarlane
* Jenny McCallum
* Priscilla Bright McLaren
* Frances McPhun
* Margaret McPhun
* Mary Maloney
* Jessie C. Methven
* Lilias Mitchell
* Maggie Moffat
* Ethel Moorhead
* Anna Munro
* Flora Murray
* Helen Ogston
* Adela Pankhurst
* Frances Parker
* Isabella Bream Pearce
* Caroline Phillips
* Mary Phillips
* Annot Robinson
* Amy Sanderson
* Arabella Scott
* Muriel Scott
* Maud Arncliffe Sennett
* Margaret Skinnider
* Georgiana Solomon and her daughter Daisy Solomon
* Barbara Steel
* Jessie Stephen
* Elizabeth and Agnes Thomson
* Bessie Watson
* Mona Chalmers Watson
* Helen Wilkie or Annot Robinson
* Henria Leech Williams

Others|

* Rachel Cook
* Helen Cruickshank
* Margaret Neill Fraser
* Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon
* Frances Ivens
* Jennie Lee
* Agnes McLaren
* Helen Matthews

Anti-suffrage activists|

* Lady Griselda Cheape
* Violet Graham, Duchess of Montrose

Historians and
writers|

* Leah Leneman
* Elspeth King
* Diane Atkinson
* Sarah Pedersen

Art, culture and
commemoration|

* Holloway Jingles
* Hunger Strike Medal
* The Suffrage Oak
* The Suffragette Handkerchief
* WSPU Holloway Prisoners Banner
* War Song Justice for Ever
* Scotland's Suffragette Trumps cards and Scotland's Suffrage History Education Packs, produced by Protests and Suffragettes

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF

National|

* Germany
* Poland
* Israel

Academics|

* ORCID
* Scopus

Other|

* IdRef
* Yale LUX

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