Dr Cara Booker is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Essex and a researcher in NIHR ARC East of England’s Mental Health and Wellbeing theme.
Cara is a social epidemiologist whose research interest is on the drivers of social inequalities in adolescent mental health, well-being and health related behaviours. She has published several papers on digital technology and adolescent mental health. Another avenue of research is on health inequalities of sexual minorities. She has extensive experience using and analysing large cross-sectional and longitudinal survey data including Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study and its predecessor the British Household Panel Survey, both of which are housed and managed by researchers at ISER. Cara has worked with the Government Equalities Office to analyse their National LGBT Survey and with the Colchester Borough Council to develop a report on the drivers of inequalities in North Essex.