Welcome!

My name is Anne-Marie or Dr. Snider, and I am a medical sociologist. My work focuses on topics of mental health, wellness, recovery and spiritual care.

Originally, I started out as human geographer using large datasets to study wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand, and suicide prevention and postvention in Meanjin Brisbane, Australia.

These days I mainly use qualitative tools, including User Experience (UX) Research to help students/faculty/community members understand the challenges and perspectives of those they serve, particularly when searching for social support and care in digital spaces.

For the past two years, student researchers and I have been working together to make a mental health resource guide of support provided by Chico State. The design of this guide, and the UX research that informs it, was conducted by recent sociology graduate, Hannah Burgard (24’).

Please download the Mental Health Resource Guide for Chico State (Fall 2024) here.

For the 2024-2025 academic year I am teaching Medical Sociology, Public Sociology and Self and Society.