Nina Di Cara

Hello! I am Research Associate in Mental Health Data Science working with Professor Claire Haworth and Dr Oliver Davis. My broad interests are in the mental health of children and parents, data science, data ethics and citizen science.

In 2022 I finished my PhD on understanding whether digital footprints are an effective way to track mental health. I was supervised by Professor Claire Haworth, Dr Oliver Davis and Professor Luke Sloan, and based at the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit. My work was funded by a Data Science and AI PhD studentship from the GW4 MRC BioMed DTP. Before I started my PhD I was a safeguarding social worker, working with children and families.

Alongside my PhD I co-organise Data Ethics Club, which hosts fortnightly conversations about data ethics (join us!).

selected publications

Data Hazards v1.0: an open-source vocabulary of ethical hazards for data-intensive projects

Zelenka, Natalie, Di Cara, Nina, Bennet, Euan, Hanschke, Vanessa Aisyahsari, Kuwertz, Emma, Kherroubi Garcia, Ismael, and Roman Garcia, Susana

Preprint 2023

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Methodologies for monitoring mental health on Twitter: systematic review

Di Cara, Nina, Maggio, Valerio, Davis, Oliver SP, and Haworth, Claire MA

Journal of Medical Internet Research 2023

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Data Ethics Club: creating a collaborative space to discuss data ethics

Di Cara, Nina, Zelenka, Natalie, Day, Huw, Bennet, Euan D. S., Hanschke, Vanessa, Maggio, Valerio, Michalec, Ola, Radclyffe, Charles, Shkunov, Roman, Tonkin, Emma, Turner, Zoe, and Wells, Kamilla

Patterns 2022

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  title = {Data Ethics Club: creating a collaborative space to discuss data ethics},
  author = {Di Cara, Nina and Zelenka, Natalie and Day, Huw and Bennet, Euan D. S. and Hanschke, Vanessa and Maggio, Valerio and Michalec, Ola and Radclyffe, Charles and Shkunov, Roman and Tonkin, Emma and Turner, Zoe and Wells, Kamilla},
  year = {2022},
  journal = {Patterns},
  publisher = {Cell Press},
  abbr = {Patterns},
  html = {https://www.cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S2666-3899(22)00134-9},
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  volume = {3},
  issue = {7}
}

The mental health and well-being profile of young adults using social media

Di Cara, Nina, Winstone, Lizzy, Sloan, Luke, Davis, Oliver SP, and Haworth, Claire MA

npj Mental Health Research 2022

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@article{dicara2022mental,
  title = {The mental health and well-being profile of young adults using social media},
  author = {Di Cara, Nina and Winstone, Lizzy and Sloan, Luke and Davis, Oliver SP and Haworth, Claire MA},
  year = {2022},
  journal = {npj Mental Health Research},
  publisher = {Springer Nature},
  abbr = {npj Mental Health Res},
  bibtex_show = {true},
  html = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s44184-022-00011-w},
  selected = {true},
  volume = {1},
  issue = {11}
}