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 4 publications

1. Briefing note COVID-19 survey: health and caring

   Michaela Benzeval, Cara L. Booker, Jonathan Burton, et al.

   Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2020-11 - 09 Jun 2020 - download  
   1. Psychology
   2. Demography
   3. Public Policy
   4. Well Being
   5. Health
   6. Social Stratification
   7. Caregiving
   8. Covid 19

2. Understanding Society Innovation Panel Wave 7: Results from Methodological Experiments

   Annelies G. Blom, Jonathan Burton, Cara L. Booker, et al.

   Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2015-03 - 09 Jun 2015 - download  

3. Understanding Society Innovation Panel Wave 6: results from methodological experiments

   Nick Allum, Katrin Auspurg, Margaret Blake, et al.

   Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2014-04 - 16 Jul 2014 - download  

4. Implementing the biosocial component of Understanding Society – nurse collection of biomeasures

   Stephanie L. McFall, Cara L. Booker, Jonathan Burton, et al.

   Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2012-04 - 27 Jun 2012 - download  
   1. Survey Methodology
   2. Health
   3. Biology

Media

Displaying media publications 31 - 41 of 41 in total

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