Personal profile
Research
My research explores developmental dynamics and person-environment relations. I am particularly interested in the meaning of the environment in relation to creating and facilitating developmental dynamics for people in various institutional settings, such as high schools, social-psychiatric living facilities, and psychiatric hospitals. I explore the invitational character of the environment (material surroundings, social others, societal meaning and standards) and how this plays into people’s self-understanding and experience of agency and action possibilities.
In my work, I combine ecological psychology with cultural-historical psychology, and focus on the transaction between – and interplay of – individual and environment, with an emphasis on material aspects, the built and the social environment, and how developmental possibilities and constraints are offered, created, and negotiated in people’s everyday lives.
Keywords
- Psychology
- Social psychology of everyday life
- social-psychiatry
- community psychology
- recovery
- person-environment relations
- developmental dynamics
- General psychology
- practice research
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being -
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SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities -
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
Collaborations and research areas
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Becoming Myself Anew – With Others: An Argument for the Necessity of Community in Mental Illness Recovery
Pedersen, S., 2025, Dialectic Special Pedagogy: Supporting the Transitions of People with Disabilities and Atypical Development. Bøttcher, L. & Mathiassen, C. (eds.). Bloomsbury Academic, p. 167-188 22 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Fablabs and the Maker Movement: Learning through Making
Høbye, M., Haldrup, M., Daugbjerg, S., Pedersen, S., Borch, M. M., Padfield, N., Lindemann, S., Møbius, N. & Thorning, B., 2025, Creative Pragmatics for Active Learning in STEM Education. Svabo, C., Shanks, M., Zhou, C. & Carleton, T. (eds.). Springer, p. 149-173 25 p. (Contributions from Science Education Research, Vol. 14).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Enabling spaces: moving with and beyond psycho-social-material crisis
Pedersen, S., 2024.Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference abstract for conference › Research › peer-review
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Enabling spaces for (varied) co-existence
Pedersen, S. & Nielsen, E., 23 Sept 2024, In: PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES B-CONTAINING PAPERS OF A BIOLOGICAL CHARACTER. 379, 1910, p. 20230293 1 p., 20230293.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Conceiving the environment from a developmental perspective: Revisiting Roger G. Barker's comparison of Bobby Bryant and Raymond Birch
Bang, J. & Pedersen, S., 2023, Places, Sociality, and Ecological Psychology: Essays in Honor of Harry Heft. Segundo-Ortin, M., Heras-Escribano, M. & Raja, V. (eds.). Routledge, 13 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Activities
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Learning as practice engagement
Schmidt, C. (Speaker) & Pedersen, S. (Speaker)
24 Jun 2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Lecture and oral contribution
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What a difference a day... or radical embodiment...makes (keynote)
Pedersen, S. (Speaker)
19 Jun 2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Lecture and oral contribution
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Aktivismens etik i medforskning med unge
Tybjerg, G. M. (Speaker) & Pedersen, S. (Speaker)
15 May 2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Lecture and oral contribution
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Kvalekonferencen 2025
Pultz, S. (Participant) & Pedersen, S. (Participant)
15 May 2025 → 16 May 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organisation and participation in conference
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Enabling spaces: (co)creating meaningful spaces for becoming
Pedersen, S. (Speaker)
27 Mar 2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Lecture and oral contribution
Press/Media
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For 13 år siden kunne Sofie ikke forestille sig selv i jobbet: Nu får hun en pris af dronningen
23/09/2024
1 item of Media coverage
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Vinder af national undervisningspris: ”Undervisning var det mest angst-provokerende, jeg kunne forestille mig”
23/09/2024
1 item of Media coverage
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Prizes
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Carlsbergsfondets konferencemidler
Pedersen, S. (Recipient), 2021
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions
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Uddannelses- og Forskningsministeriets Undervisningspris 2024
Pedersen, S. (Recipient), 23 Sept 2024
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions