Brittany Blankinship

Lecturer in Data Science

Biography

Qualifications

PhD. Multilingualism in Later Life: Natural History and Effects of Language Learning. University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

MSc. Human Cognitive Neuropsychology. University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

BA. Linguistics. The University of California, Berkeley, USA.

BA. History. The University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Responsibilities & affiliations

Programe Director MSc Data Science for Health and Social Care 

Postgraduate teaching

Programme Director - MSc Data Science for Health and Social Care

Deputy Director of Quality for the Usher Institute 

Year 1 Academic Cohort Lead for the MSc Data Science for Health and Social Care

Currently Course Organiser of the following courses: 

  • Introduction to Data Science in Health and Social Care
  • Intermediate R Programming for Data Science
  • Data Types and Structures in Python and R 
  • Foundations of Machine Learning for Health and Social Care 

 

EUSA Teaching Award 2025 - Outstanding Course (CMVM) for Intermediate R Programming for Data Science 

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Current PhD students supervised

Supervision of MSc students in the Usher Institute and in Psychology

Past PhD students supervised

Supervision of MSc students in the Usher Institute, in Psychology, and in Neuroscience

Supervision of undergraduate students in Psychology and in Neuroscience

Research summary

Brittany's research focuses on cognitive ageing, neurodegenerative diseases, language learning across the lifespan, multilingualism, and data science in the health and social care context. She also has a keen interest in the scholarship of teaching and learning, innovative teaching methods, and pedagogy around teaching STEM subjects, coding, and statistics to a variety of learners from various backgrounds. Brittany is a mixed methods researcher with expertise in both qualitative and quantitative methods. 

Current project grants

PTAS (Principal's Teaching Award Scheme) Grant: Developing An Edited Volume and Online Resources for Programming Pedagogy Across Disciplines

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