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

  • 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 Publications

A glossary for social-to-biological research

  1. Tony Robertson
  2. Michaela Benzeval
  3. Martin Betzer
  4. Cara Booker
  5. Raphaële Castagné
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  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology
  3. Health
  4. Biology
  5. Social Sciences
  6. Interdisciplinarity: Social Sciences
  7. Social Behaviour
  8. Medicine
  9. General Reference Works

Vaccination invitations sent by warm and competent medical professionals disclosing risks and benefits increase trust and booking intention and reduce inequalities between ethnic groups

  1. Marie Juanchich
  2. Claire M. Oakley
  3. Hazel Sayer
  4. Dawn Liu Holford
  5. Wändi Bruine de Bruin
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  1. Psychology
  2. Information And Communication Technologies
  3. Health
  4. Social Behaviour
  5. Ethnic Groups
  6. Medicine
  7. Social Psychology

Are protected characteristics associated with mental health care inequalities in the adult UK general population? a cross-sectional study

  1. Claire Wicks
  2. Cara Booker
  3. Meena Kumari
  4. Antonella Trotta
  5. Susan McPherson
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  1. Labour Market
  2. Older People
  3. Life Course Analysis
  4. Psychology
  5. Health
  6. Demography
  7. Well Being
  8. Education
  9. Social Groups
  10. Young People
  11. Ethnic Groups
  12. Disability

Mental health research insights: University of Essex mental health research report 2021-2024

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  1. Psychology
  2. Health
  3. Covid-19
  4. Well Being
  5. Research

Residence in coastal communities in adolescence and health in young adulthood: an 11-year follow-up of English UKHLS youth questionnaire respondents.

  1. Emily T. Murray
  2. Avril Keating
  3. Claire Cameron
  4. Rachel Benchekroun
  5. Sam Whewall
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  1. Life Course Analysis
  2. Psychology
  3. Health
  4. Poverty
  5. Area Effects
  6. Well Being
  7. Geography
  8. Young People

Allostatic load and chronic pain: a prospective finding from the national survey of midlife development in the United States, 2004–2014

  1. Yunlong Liang
  2. Cara Booker
  1. Life Course Analysis
  2. Health
  3. Biology

Flexible working and the division of housework and childcare: examining divisions across arrangement and occupational lines

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

Sexual orientation and the incidence of COVID-19: evidence from Understanding Society in the UK Longitudinal Household Study

  1. Cara Booker
  2. Catherine Meads
  1. Psychology
  2. Health
  3. Covid-19
  4. Social Groups
  5. Social Behaviour

Archival and secondary data

  1. Tarani Chandola
  2. Cara Booker
  1. Surveys
  2. Statistical Analysis
  3. Research
  4. Higher Education

Impacts of long-standing illness and chronic illness on working hours and household income in a longitudinal UK study

  1. Cara Booker
  2. Leanne Andrews
  3. Gillian Green
  4. Meena Kumari
  1. Labour Market
  2. Households
  3. Income Dynamics
  4. Life Course Analysis
  5. Health
  6. Welfare Benefits
  7. Demography
  8. Disability
  9. Caregiving

Latest Media

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

Britons with life-threatening conditions denied care during pandemic

  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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