Dr Cara Booker Senior Research Fellow, University of Essex

Cara Booker
Email
cbooker@essex.ac.uk
Office
2N2.4.24
Curriculum vitae

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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Latest Publications

Social media use and adolescent mental health: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study

  1. Yvonne Kelly
  2. Afshin Zilanawala
  3. Cara Booker
  4. Amanda Sacker
  1. Psychology
  2. Information And Communication Technologies
  3. Health
  4. Well Being
  5. Young People
  6. Social Behaviour
  7. Time Use

Gender differences in the associations between age trends of social media interaction and well-being among 10-15 year olds in the UK

  1. Cara Booker
  2. Yvonne J. Kelly
  3. Amanda Sacker
  1. Life Course Analysis
  2. Psychology
  3. Information And Communication Technologies
  4. Health
  5. Well Being
  6. Social Networks
  7. Young People
  8. Social Behaviour
  9. Time Use

Sexual orientation health inequality: evidence from Understanding Society, the UK Longitudinal Household Study

  1. Cara Booker
  2. Gerulf Rieger
  3. Jennifer B. Unger
  1. Psychology
  2. Health
  3. Well Being
  4. Drug/alcohol Abuse
  5. Disability

Health Committee. Children and young people’s mental health – role of education inquiry. Written evidence from the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex (CMH0111)

  1. Cara Booker
  2. Gundi Knies
  1. Psychology
  2. Health
  3. Well Being
  4. Young People

Work-family life courses and markers of stress and inflammation in mid-life: evidence from the National Child Development Study

  1. Rebecca E. Lacey
  2. Amanda Sacker
  3. Meena Kumari
  4. Diana Worts
  5. Peggy McDonough
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  1. Life Course Analysis
  2. Health
  3. Biology
  4. Medicine

De-standardization and gender convergence in work–family life courses in Great Britain: a multi-channel sequence analysis

  1. Anne McMunn
  2. Rebecca Lacey
  3. Diana Worts
  4. Peggy McDonough
  5. Mai Stafford
    6. , et al
  1. Life Course Analysis
  2. Social Change

Screen time and young people

  1. Cara Booker

Cumulative disadvantage, employment–marriage, and health inequalities among American and British mothers

  1. Peggy McDonough
  2. Diana Worts
  3. Cara Booker
  4. Anne McMunn
  5. Amanda Sacker
    6. , et al
  1. Labour Market
  2. Life Course Analysis
  3. Health
  4. Family Formation And Dissolution

Longitudinal associations between social website use and happiness in young people

  1. Cara Booker
  2. Amanda Sacker
  3. Yvonne Kelly
  1. Information And Communication Technologies
  2. Health
  3. Well Being
  4. Young People

Understanding Society Innovation Panel Wave 7: results from methodological experiments

  1. Annelies G. Blom
  2. Jonathan Burton
  3. Cara Booker
  4. Alexandru Cernat
  5. Malcolm Fairbrother
    6. , et al
  1. Survey Methodology

Latest Media

Young people in England’s coastal towns three times more likely to have a mental health condition

  1. Emily T. Murray
  2. Avril Keating
  3. Cara Booker
  4. Claire Cameron
  5. Sam Whewall
    6. , et al
  1. Life Course Analysis
  2. Psychology
  3. Health
  4. Poverty
  5. Demography
  6. Area Effects
  7. Well Being
  8. Geography
  9. Social Stratification
  10. Young People

New study on division of housework and childcare in heterosexual dual-earning couples nominated for the prestigious Kanter Prize 2024

  1. Heejung Chung
  2. Cara Booker
  1. Labour Market
  2. Social Stratification
  3. Time Use
  4. Sociology Of Households
  5. Caregiving
  6. Unpaid Work

Working from home can lead to fathers doing less childcare and mothers doing more

  1. Heejung Chung
  2. Cara Booker
  1. Labour Market
  2. Social Stratification
  3. Time Use
  4. Sociology Of Households
  5. Caregiving
  6. Unpaid Work

New funding announced for transatlantic research into COVID-19 vaccine engagement in the UK and USA

  1. Marie Juanchich
  2. Wändi Bruine de Bruin
  3. Tim Chadborn
  4. Cara Booker
  1. Health
  2. Covid-19
  3. Finance
  4. Research
  5. Ethnic Groups

The health impact of the pandemic: NHS hospital treatments for long-term health conditions fall by over 60% in April

  1. Michaela Benzeval
  2. Cara Booker
  3. Meena Kumari
  1. Psychology
  2. Health
  3. Covid-19
  4. Public Policy
  5. Demography
  6. Well Being
  7. Social Stratification
  8. Caregiving

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