Dr Cara Booker Research Fellow and Graduate Director, University of Essex

Email

cbooker@essex.ac.uk

Telephone

01206 873026

Office

2N2.4.24

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

• Psychosocial determinants and risk factors of health across the life-course
• Social inequalities in health-related behaviours and wellbeing among adolescents
• Social media interaction and adolescent and young adult wellbeing
• Emerging inequalitiees
• Parental relationships and child wellbeing

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Publications

Displaying all 2 publications

1. Happiness and health-related behaviours in adolescence

   Cara L. Booker, Alexandra J. Skew, Amanda Sacker, et al.

   Book Chapter, Understanding Society: findings 2012 - 28 Feb 2012
   1. Young People
   2. Well Being
   3. Health

2. Health over the life course: associations between age, employment status and well-being

   Cara L. Booker and Amanda Sacker

   Book Chapter, Understanding Society: early findings from the first wave of the UK's household longitudinal study, Ch. 9 - 2011
   1. Labour Market
   2. Health
   3. Life Course Analysis

Media

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1. Smoking, drinking teens are the unhappiest of all

   Media - 03 Mar 2012

2. Smoking, drinking teens are the unhappiest of all.... and fruit and veg is the secret to a good life

   Media - 03 Mar 2012

3. Resilience amongst the long term ill

   Media - 12 Jul 2011

4. Resilience amongst the long term ill

   Media - 11 Jul 2011

5. Resilience amongst the long term ill

   Media - 11 Jul 2011

6. Resilience amongst the long term ill

   Media - 11 Jul 2011

7. Resilience amongst the long term ill

   Media - 11 Jul 2011

8. Resilience amongst the long term ill

   Media - 11 Jul 2011

9. Resilience amongst the long term ill

   Media - 11 Jul 2011

10. Resilience amongst the long term ill

    Media - 11 Jul 2011

11. Unemployment may hit some harder than others

    Media - 21 Jun 2011