Synnøve Aursand Pedersen
PhD fellow at the University of Oslo
Synnøve Aursand Pedersen is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law. She holds a master’s degree in sociology of law from the University of Oslo. In her master’s thesis, she studied the role of law in the fight against rape, through interviews with NGOs and focus group interviews with youth and young adults through the research project 'The Public Sense of Criminal Justice'. Previously, she earned bachelor’s degrees in psychology from NTNU Trondheim and criminology from the University of Oslo.
After completing her education, Pedersen worked with research and analysis at the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training and the Ministry of Education and Research.
Tell us about your project!
My Ph.D. project examines how youth and young adults experience, interpret, and respond to image-based sexual abuse (IBSA), and what this reveals about the relationship between law, digital platforms, and justice. The doctorate is part of the research project 'Digitizing sexual violence,' which investigates new forms of technology-facilitated sexual harms and their consequences. Through digital ethnography, platform analysis, and interviews, I aim to explore what tensions, frictions, or gaps emerge between experiences with IBSA, platform rules, and formal legal categories, and what this reveals about the limits of law in digital contexts.
“The doctorate is part of the research project 'Digitizing sexual violence,' which investigates new forms of technology-facilitated sexual harms and their consequences”
— Synnøve Aursand Pedersen on her PhD project “Image-Based Sexual Abuse: Experiences and the Relationship between Law, Digital Platforms & Justice”