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Dr Nina Di Cara
BSc, MSc, 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
10/06/2024Development and use of a co-produced short mood survey to collect ground truth in digital footprints research
Longitudinal reliability of Twitter sentiment for measuring mental health and well-being in a UK birth cohort
Using Data Hazards to support safe and ethical digital footprint research
Epicosm — a framework for linking online social media in epidemiological cohorts
International Journal of Epidemiology
Methodologies for Monitoring Mental Health on Twitter
Journal of Medical Internet Research
Thesis
Mental health data science in rich longitudinal cohort studies
Supervisors
Award date
27/09/2022