Professor Dr. Shannon Branigin

Biography

Shannon Branigin is a PhD researcher at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on medical anthropology, particularly investigating the roles of emergent NHS Green Health programming in addressing issues faced by individuals experiencing multiple forms of social marginalization such as homelessness, mental illness, disability, substance use issues, and interactions with the criminal justice system. Funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, her ethnographic work delves into how greenspaces are leveraged within care configurations by NHS Scotland and partner services, examining the landscapes shaped by broader infrastructures of coloniality and exclusion. In addition to her research, she is involved in teaching, specifically coordinating courses such as SCAN08005: Ethnography: Theory and Practice, and SCIL11009: Core Quantitative Data Analysis. She further contributes to the field through work in People Analytics, focusing on data collection and analytics to enhance website functionality and user experience.

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