Wolfson College Cambridge: Dr Beth Barker

Position Governing Body Fellow Junior Research Fellow
School Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty of Education
Email bjb64@cam.ac.uk
Department link Education

Beth is a Research Associate at the Centre for Research on Play in Education, Development, and Learning (PEDAL) in the Faculty of Education.

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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Poetry Trail

13/05/2024 at 12.00

Explore our new trail featuring extracts of poetry written by Wolfson staff and students for the forthcoming WolfWords Anthology Wild.

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Graduation Ceremony

17/05/2024 at 09.00

Graduation ceremonies are the culmination of students’ hard work and commitment, and a moment to celebrate the completion of their Cambridge degree.

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Postgraduate Research Soirée

17/05/2024 at 17.45

Join Wolfson postgraduate students as they talk about their research in an informal evening of interesting presentations and friendly discussion – complete with wine and cheese!