Areas of expertise: screen time; public health; behaviour; physical activity; youth health
Phone: +61 2 9465 9826
Email: bridget.booker@acu.edu.au
Location: ACU North Sydney Campus
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8815-7314
Dr Bridget Booker is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education. With a background in public health and exercise science, her research examines children's and adolescent's health behaviours, with particular interests in screen use and physical activity. She is especially interested in how these behaviours are measured, and how different approaches to measurement influence the evidence available to inform practice and policy.
Bridget completed her PhD at IPPE in 2024 under the supervision of Associate Professor Taren Sanders and Professor Chris Lonsdale. Her doctoral research developed and validated a coding framework for assessing children's screen use through automated wearable cameras. This framework captures both the type and context of screen use, addressing long-standing limitations of traditional survey-based methods.
Select publications
- Teychenne, M., Sousa G. M., Baker, T., Liddelow, C., Babic, M., Chauntry, A. J., France-Ratcliffe, M., Guagliano, J., Christie, H. E., Tremaine, E., Booker, B., Gargiolo, D., Bannel, D. J., Bao, R., Brooks, C., Lubans, D. R., Swann, C., Vella, S. A., Lonsdale, C., Bergamo dos Santos, A., & White, R. L. (2025). Domain-specific physical activity and mental health: an updated systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis in a combined sample of 3.3 million people. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2025-109806
- Noetel, M., Sanders, T., Tracey, D., Lubans, D. R., Temple, V. A., Bennie, A., Conigrave, C., Babic, M., Booker, B., Pagano, R., Boyer, J., Lonsdale, C. (2025). Effects of a school-based physical activity intervention on children with intellectual disability: a cluster randomized trial. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity,103, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-025-01798-5
- Vasconcellos, R. P., Sanders, T., Lonsdale, C., Parker, P., Conigrave, J., Tang, S., Del Pozo Cruz, B., Biddle, S.J.H., Taylor, R., Innes-Hughes, C., Salmela-Aro, K., Vasconcellos, D., Wilhite, K., Tremaine, E., Booker, B., & Noetel, M. (2025). Electronic screen use and children's socioemotional problems: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies. Psychological Bulletin, 151(5), 513-543. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000468
- Wilhite, K., Booker, B., Huang, B., Antczak, D., Corbett, L., & Parker, P., Noetel, M., Rissel, C., Lonsdale, C., del Pozo Cruz, B., & Sanders, T. (2023). Combinations of physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep and their associations with physical, psychological, and educational outcomes in children and adolescents: A systematic review. American Journal of Epidemiology. 192(4). 665-679. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwac212
- Owen, K. Foley, B. Wilhite, K., Booker, B., Lonsdale, C., & Lindsey, R. (2022). Sport Participation and Academic Performance in Children and Adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 54(2). 299-306. https://doi.org/10.1249/MSS.0000000000002786
