School of Social and Political Science

Shannon Branigin

Job Title

PhD Researcher

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Room number

3.12

Building (Address)

27-28 George Square

City (Address)

Edinburgh

Country (Address)

United Kingdom

Post code (Address)

EH8 9LD

Research interests

Research interests

science and technology studies; medicine and policy; environment and sustainability; criminal justice; homelessness and inclusion care; decolonial thought; global mental health

PhD: Incoherent Labours, Anthropochory Subjects: Colonialities, Crime and Homelessness in Scotland's Green Health Inclusion Services

I am a PhD Candidate in medical anthropology investigating emergent Green Health programming in Scotland for folks experiencing intersecting forms of social marginalisation, including homelessness, diagnosis and treatment for mental illness and/or disability, substance-use issues, and/or involvement with the criminal justice system. Funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, I explore ethnographically the ways in which greenspace configures a politics of care proximate to the NHS Scotland and its partner services. I am interested in how Green Health entangles daily experiences of access, violence, and labour in health and social care, complicating what it means for individuals and governance to speculate 'good' and 'better care' in Scotland during UK austerity. 

Teaching in SPS

SCAN08005: Ethnography: Theory and Practice (Semester 2, AY 2025/26)

SCIL11009: Core Quantitative Data Analysis (Semester 1, AY 2025/26)

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