[1] She holds a chair as Professor of Communication and Media at Robert Gordon University, in Scotland.
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.
Pederson also investigated correspondence from women in the public and private sphere during World War One.
[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.
The protest was designed to confound the processing of data and the use of machines to read the forms .