David A. Ellis Professor of Behavioural Science

Showing comparable improvements to teeth following different root canal treatments. Error bars illustrate standard error. GW, GentleWave; Non-GW, ultrasonic activation + negative pressure irrigation; PAI, periapical index. Figure from Montero et al., 2025.

Recent Publications


In Press

Baruffati, D., Mackenzie, M., Lindsay, C., Ellis, D., Major, M., O’Donnell, C., Simpson, S., Wong, G. and Williamson, A. (in press). Keeping People Down, In and Out: Structural Stigma and ‘Missingness’ in Healthcare. International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services

2026

Zhou, P., Xu, Y., McElroy, A.N., Osborn, M.J., Dababneh, A., Palraj, R., Moschou, D., Pourzand, C., Ellis, D.A., White, I.H. and Cui, T. (2026). Beyond Diagnosis: Aerosol Viral Monitoring to Transform Epidemic Responses. Research, 9,  1059.

2025 

Mayer, L. W., Bocheva, D., Hinds, J. Brown, O., Piwek, L. and Ellis, D. A. (2025). Optimeet: A computational tool to enhance participant attendance in group research. Behavior Research Methods, 57, 289.

Shaw, H., Brown, O., Hinds, J., Nightingale, S. J., Towse, J. and Ellis, D. A. (2025). The DECIDE Framework: Describing Ethical Choices in Digital-Behavioral-Data Explorations. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 8(3).

Montero, L. Q., Basrani, B., Ellis, D. A. and Cochenca, N. (2025). Healing outcomes following the treatment of molars using different root canal disinfection methods: A prospective cohort study. Journal of Endodontics, 51, (7), 909-919. 

Mackenzie, M., Baruffati, D., Lindsay, C., O’Donnell K., Ellis, D., Simpson, S., Major, M., Wong, G. and Williamson, A.  (2025). Fundamental causation and candidacy: Harnessing explanatory frames to better understand how structural determinants of health inequalities shape disengagement from primary healthcare. Social Science & Medicine, 374, 118034.

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The Rise of Consumer Health Wearables: Promises and Barriers        
Beyond Self-Report: Tools to Compare Estimated and Real-World Smartphone Use        
Morbidity, Mortality and Missed Appointments in Healthcare: A National Retrospective Data Linkage Study        
Predicting Smartphone Operating System from Personality and Individual Differences        
Development of an Offline-Friend Addiction Questionnaire (O-FAQ): Are Most People Really Social Addicts?