Dr Nina Di Cara Di Cara
PhD
Current positions
Senior Research Associate
School of Psychological Science
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Research interests
I research the applications of data science to mental health and well-being data. Most recently this has included the use of social media data as a digital phenotype for mental health in birth cohorts, as well as the public acceptability and responsible development of new data science technologies.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Developing recommendations to support the mental well-being of academic mental health researchers
Principal Investigator
Role
Principal Investigator
Description
Surveying UK-wide academic mental health researchers to develop recommendations for mental health support that addresses challenges arising from exposure to distressing research material, such as self-harm and suicide.Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/11/2023 to 31/07/2024
Mood music: using Spotify to infer wellbeing
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Dates
12/12/2019 to 01/07/2020
Publications
Recent publications
01/03/2025Data Hazards: An open-source vocabulary of ethical hazards for data-intensive projects
Journal of Responsible Technology
Data Hazards as An Ethical Toolkit for Neuroscience
Neuroethics
Understanding and supporting the mental health and professional quality of life of academic mental health researchers
BMC Public Health
Development and use of a co-produced short mood survey to collect ground truth in digital footprints research
Data hazards in synthetic biology
Synthetic Biology
Thesis
Mental health data science in rich longitudinal cohort studies
Supervisors
Award date
27/09/2022
Related people
Professor John Macleod
Professor in Clinical Epidemiology and Primary Care & Joint Head of CAPC
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Professor Claire Haworth
Professor of Behavioural Genetics
School of Psychological Science
Dr Oliver Davis
Reader in Biomedical Data Science
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Dr Natalie Zelenka
Honorary Industrial Fellow
Jean Golding Institute