Dr Cara Booker
Senior Research Fellow; Graduate Director, University of Essex
Graduate Studies
- Cara is Director, and Janice Webb is Administrator of Graduate Studies
- Please follow this link to find out about PhD study at ISER
Research Interests
- Social inequalities in health-related behaviours and wellbeing among adolescents
- Social media interaction and adolescent and young adult wellbeing
- Psychosocial determinants and risk factors of health across the life-course
- Emerging inequalities
- Parental relationships and child wellbeing
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Outputs
Child of our Time: Do sexual minority teenagers have greater health risks?
In a new blog for Child of our Time, Dr Cara Booker explains her research with Professor Yvonne Kelly of the ESRC International Centre for Lifecourse Studies at UCL, which tracks the health and happiness of the UK's children
Stress levels of working mothers: what could help improve their health?
Dr Cara Booker explains the findings of a pioneering new study using biological markers collected in blood samples alongside socio-economic data, to understand how working patterns exacerbate or alleviate stress in working mothers
Mental health risks to girls who spend more than an hour a day on social media
Dr Cara Booker's blog piece for The Conversation examines the health risks to children and young teens of increasing amounts of time on social media