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 publications 31 - 35 of 35 in total

1. Chronic illness and subjective well-being of family members -conference paper abstract-

   Cara L. Booker and Amanda Sacker

   Journal Article, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health - 2011
   1. Well Being
   2. Health

2. Maximising the return from cohort studies

   Alistair Leyland, I. White, S. Harding, et al.

   Journal Article, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health - 2011
   1. Survey Methodology
   2. Health

3. A systematic review of the effect of retention methods in population-based cohort studies

   Cara L. Booker, Seeromanie Harding, and Michaela Benzeval

   Journal Article, BMC Public Health - 2011
   1. Survey Methodology
   2. Health

4. Health and biomeasure data in Understanding Society

   Cara L. Booker and Stephanie L. McFall

   Conference Paper, British Sociological Association Conference - Apr 2011

5. Young People and Well-being

   Heather Laurie, Cara L. Booker, Alexandra J. Skew, et al.

   Conference Paper, Young People and Well-being -

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