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Beth Barker

Dr Beth Barker

BSc MA PhD

  • Position Governing Body Fellow Junior Research Fellow
  • School Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty of Education
  • Email bjb64@cam.ac.uk
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Beth is a Research Associate at the Centre for Research on Play in Education, Development, and Learning (PEDAL) in the Faculty of Education.

Beth Barker

Beth completed her PhD in 2021 at Imperial College London (funded by the President's PhD Scholarship). Her PhD focused on the important role caregivers play in their children’s lives, with close attention paid to children’s behavioural development between the ages of one and five. Beth currently works as a Research Associate on the Helping Little Minds Thrive project (funded by the UKRI) which focuses on working alongside families themselves and services to develop new ways to strengthen mental health in early life (aged 0-4 years).

Beth's research has centred on understanding the links between parenting and child mental health, with a focus on the ways in which we can develop effective programmes of support to be delivered to families in the first few years of children’s lives. Beth is committed to involving children themselves in all stages of research and focused on translating her research group's work to real-world impacts.

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