Brittany Blankinship

Lecturer in Data Science | Deputy Director of Quality (Usher Institute)

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.

Postgraduate teaching

Deputy Director of Quality for the Usher Institute 

Programme organiser for the MSc Data Science for Health and Social Care

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 

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Current PhD students supervised

Supervision of MSc students in the Usher Insitute and in Psychology

Past PhD students supervised

Supervision of MSc students in the Usher Insitute, 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. 

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