Shanon is interested in disability ethics, health professional ethics, research ethics and critical reflexivity. She is particularly interested in how ethical tensions and ethical decision-making shape and are shaped by health policy and systemic constraints. Her current research areas include negotiating ethical tensions in hospital-based and community-based occupational therapy practice, ethical issues in pediatric rehabilitation, and ethics education in rehabilitation disciplines. Shanon draws upon critical social science approaches and qualitative methodologies to examine disability discourses, health care practices and policies from an ethical perspective.