Dr Cara Booker Research Fellow and Graduate Director, University of Essex
- cbooker@essex.ac.uk
- Telephone
- 01206 873026
- Office
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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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Latest Blog Posts
Publications
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Chronic illness and subjective well-being of family members -conference paper abstract-
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Maximising the return from cohort studies
Alistair Leyland, I. White, S. Harding, et al.
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A systematic review of the effect of retention methods in population-based cohort studies
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Health and biomeasure data in Understanding Society
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Young People and Well-being
Heather Laurie, Cara L. Booker, Alexandra J. Skew, et al.
Media
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Social media negatively affects teen girls more than boys
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Too much social media at age 10 may make for unhappy teen girls
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Calling time on a life of likes could be key to girls’ happiness
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Social media use at age 10 could reduce wellbeing of adolescent girls
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Out of work again? The psychological impacts of repeated unemployment
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Phones 'need health warnings'
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Smartphones should come with warnings, says report
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Tech companies urged to protect the young from dangers of excessive screen time
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Tech companies urged to protect young from dangers of excessive screen time
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Caring for the elderly
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Drink rethink
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Junk food and fizzy drinks cause children to be TWICE as unhappy as their healthier counterparts
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Suffolk: obesity related health conditions soar
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A healthy teenager is a happy teenager
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Teens junking healthy lifestyle kiss happiness away