Below you will find a list of publications which I have authored and/or co-authored. Where possible I have provided the PDF, or a direct link to the document. You can find my Google Scholar Profile here and Scopus Profile here.
Refereed Journals.
AI for Defence: Readiness, Resilience and Mental Health
Stuart E. Middleton, Alec Banks, Daniel Leightley, Patrick Hinton. S Ashbridge, Dan Adler. Maria Liakata, Ana Basiri and Brant Chee. RUSI Journal, 2024.
The relationship between wearable-derived sleep features and relapse in Major Depressive Disorder
F. Matcham, E. Carr, N. Meyer, K.M. White, C. Oetzmann, D. Leightley, F. Lamers, S. Siddi, N. Cummins, P. Annas, G. de Girolamo, J.M. Haro, G. Lavelle, Q. Li, F. Lombardini, D.C. Mohr, V.A. Narayan, B.W.H.J. Penninx, M. Coromina, G. Riquelme Alaci, S.K. Simblett, R. Nica, T. Wykes, J.C. Brasen, I. Myin-Germeys, R.J.B. Dobson, A.A. Folarin, Y. Ranjan, Z. Rashid, J. Dineley, S. Vairavan, M. Hotopf, on behalf of the RADAR-CNS consortium. Journal of Affective Disorders, 2024.
Using passive and active data to predict Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder symptoms and cannabis use in recently discharged UK veterans: A Protocol for the MAVERICK feasibility study
Grace Williamson, Nora Trompeter, Dominic Murphy, Shaddy Saba, Eric R. Pedersen, Jordan P. Davis and Daniel Leightley. Mental Health Science, 2024.
Cohort profile: The Social media, Smartphone use and Self-harm in Young People (3S-YP) study – a prospective, observational cohort study of young people in contact with mental health services
Amanda Bye, Ben Carter, Daniel Leightley, Kylee Trevillion, Maria Liakata, Stella Branthonne-Foster, Samantha Cross, Zohra Zenasni, Ewan Carr, Grace Williamson, Alba Vega Viyuela and Rina Dutta. PLoS One, 2024.
Restore and Rebuild (R&R): a protocol for a phase 2, randomised control trial to compare R&R as a treatment for moral injury-related mental health difficulties in UK military veterans to treatment as usual
Victoria Williamson, Dominic Murphy, Amanda Bonson, Natasha Biscoe, Daniel Leightley, Vicky Aldridge and Neil Greenberg. BMJ Open, 2024.
Exploring the impact of a brief smartphone-based alcohol intervention app (DrinksRation) on the quality of life of UK military veterans
Nora Trompeter, Charlotte Williamson, Roberto J. Rona, Ewan Carr, Amos Simms, Joan Agwuna, Nicola T. Fear, Laura Goodwin, Dominic Murphy, James Shearer and Daniel Leightley. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 2024.
Associations between paternal PTSD or depression, adolescent mental health, and family functioning: A cross-sectional study of UK military families
Alice Wickersham, Daniel Leightley, Benjamin Baig, Melanie Chesnokov, Alan Stein, Paul Ramchandani, Johnny Downs, Nathan Parnell, Kristy Rye, Anna Verey and Nicola T. Fear. Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health, 2024.
Health and Wellbeing Cohort Study of Serving and Ex-Serving UK Armed Forces Personnel: Phase 4 Protocol
Marie-Louise Sharp, Margaret Jones, Ray Leal, Lisa Hull, Sofia Franchini, Niamh Molloy, Howard Burdett, Amos Simms, Steven Parkes, Daniel Leightley, Neil Greenberg, Dominic Murphy, Deirdre MacManus, Simon Wessely, Sharon A.M. Stevelink and Nicola T Fear. BMJ Open, 2023.
The effectiveness of digital health technologies for reducing substance use among young people: a systematic review & meta-analysis
Jessica O’Logbon, Alice Wickersham, Charlotte Williamson and Daniel Leightley. Journal of Mental Health, 2023. PDF
Loneliness Among UK Treatment-Seeking Veterans: Associations with Quality of Life, Alcohol Misuse and Perceptions of Partner Drinking
Charlotte Williamson, Alice Wickersham, Marie-Louise Sharp, Danielle Dryden, Amos Simms, Nicola Fear, Dominic Murphy, Laura Goodwin and Daniel Leightley. Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health, 2023.
Multilingual markers of depression in remotely collected speech samples: A preliminary analysis
Nicholas Cummins, Judith Dineley, Pauline Conde, Faith Matcham, Sara Siddi, Femke Lamers, Ewan Carr, Grace Lavelle, Daniel Leightley, Katie M. White, Carolin Oetzmann, Edward L. Campbell, Sara Simblett, Stuart Bruce, Josep Maria Haro, Brenda W.J.H. Penninx, Yatharth Ranjan, Zulqarnain Rashid, Callum Stewart, Amos A. Folarin, Raquel Bailón, Björn W. Schuller, Til Wykes, Srinivasan Vairavan, Richard J.B. Dobson, Vaibhav A. Narayan, Matthew Hotopf, The RADAR-CNS Consortium. Journal of Affective Disorders, 2023. PDF
Digital Therapeutic Intervention for Women in the UK Armed Forces Who Consume Alcohol at a Hazardous or Harmful Level: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial
Grace Williamson, Ewan Carr, Nicola T. Fear, Simon Dymond, Kate King, Amos Simms, Laura Goodwin, Dominic Murphy and Daniel Leightley. JMIR Research Protocols, 2023.
The DrinksRation Smartphone Application for Modifying Alcohol Use Behaviours in UK Military Service Personnel at Risk of Alcohol-Related Harm: A Protocol for a Randomised Controlled Trial
Kate King, Daniel Leightley, Neil Greenberg and Nicola T. Fear. JMIR Research Protocols, 2023.
Caring for the carers: an evaluation of the recovery, readjustment and reintegration programme (R3P)
Amos Simms, Daniel Leightley, Di Lamb. BMJ Military Health, 2023.
Engagement with a Remote Symptom-Tracking Platform Among Participants with Major Depressive Disorder (RADAR-Engage): A Randomized Controlled Trial
Katie M White, Ewan Carr, Daniel Leightley, Faith Matcham, Pauline Conde, Yatharth Ranjan, Sara Simblett, Erin Dawe-Lane, Laura Williams, Claire Henderson and Matthew Hotopf. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 2023.
Evaluating a Smartphone App to Support the Mental Health of UK Armed Forces Veterans (MeT4VeT): A Randomised Controlled Feasibility Trial
Steven Parkes, Beth Croak, Sam Brooks, Sharon Stevelink, Daniel Leightley, Nicola T. Fear, Laura Rafferty and Neil Greenberg. JMIR Mental Health, 2023. Accepted.
Challenges in using mobile health data from smartphones and wearable devices to predict depression symptom severity: retrospective analysis
Shaoxiong Sun, Amos A. Folarin, Yuezhou Zhang, Nicholas Cummins, Rafael Garcia Dias, Callum Stewart, Yatharth Ranjan, Zulqarnain Rashid, Pauline Conde, Petroula Laiou, Heet Sankesara, Faith Matcham, Daniel Leightley, Katie M. White, Carolin Oetzmann, Alina Ivan, Femke Lamers, Sara Siddi, Sara Simblett, Raluca Nica, Aki Rintala, David C. Mohr, Inez Myin-Germeys, Til Wykes, Josep Maria Haro, Brenda W. J. H. Penninx, Srinivasan Vairavan, Vaibhav A. Narayan, Peter Annas, Matthew Hotopf and Richard J. B. Dobson (for the RADAR-CNS consortium). Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2023.
The usability of daytime and night-time heart rate dynamics as digital biomarkers of depression severity
S. Siddi, R. Bailon, I. Giné-Vázquez, F. Matcham, F. Lamers, S. Kontaxis, E. Laporta, E. Garcia, F. Lombardini, P. Annas, M. Hotopf, B. W. J. H. Penninx, A. Ivan, K. M. White, S. Difrancesco, P. Locatelli, J. Aguiló, M. T. Peñarrubia-Maria, V. A. Narayan, A. Folarin, Daniel Leightley, N. Cummins, S. Vairavan, Y. Ranjan, A. Rintala, G. de Girolamo, S. K. Simblett, T. Wykes, I. Myin-Germeys, R. Dobson, and J. M. Haro. Psychological Medicine, 2023.
Identifying Military Service Status in Electronic Healthcare Records from Psychiatric Secondary Healthcare Services: A Validation Exercise Using the Military Service Identification Tool
Daniel Leightley, Laura Palmer, Charlotte Williamson, Ray Leal, Dave Chandran, Dominic Murphy, Nicola T. Fear and Sharon A. M. Stevelink. MDPI Healthcare, 2023.
Observational prospective study of social media, smartphone use and self-harm in a clinical sample of young people: Study protocol
Amanda Bye, Ben Carter, Daniel Leightley, Kylee Trevillion, Maria Liakata, Stella Branthonne-Foster, Grace Williamson, Zhora Zenasni and Rina Dutta. BMJ Open, 2023.
Mental health problems and admissions to hospital for accidents and injuries in the UK military: A data linkage study
Zoe Chui, Daniel Leightley, Margaret Jones, Sabine Landau, Paul McCrone, Richard D. Hayes, Simon Wessely, Nicola T. Fear and Laura Goodwin. PLoS One, 2023.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Co-Occurring Gambling Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Veterans: A Narrative Review
Catherine Hitch, Daniel Leightley, Dominic Murphy, Nora Trompeter and Simon Dymond.European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2022.
Military Veterans and Civilians’ Mental Health Diagnoses: An Analysis of Secondary Mental Health Services Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Charlotte Williamson, Laura Palmer, Daniel Leightley, David Pernet, David Chandran, Ray Leal, Dominic Murphy, Nicola T. Fear and Sharon A. M. Stevelink. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiolog, 2022.
Biopsychosocial response to the COVID-19 lockdown in people with major depressive disorder and multiple sclerosis
Sara Siddi, Iago Giné-Vázquez, Raquel Bailon, Faith Matcham, Femke Lamers, Spyridon Kontaxis, Estela Laporta, Esther Garcia, Belen Arranz, Gloria Dalla Costa, Anna Isabel Guerrero, Ana Zabalza, Mathias Due Buron, Giancarlo Comi, Letizia Leocani, Peter Annas, Matthew Hotopf, Brenda W. J. H. Penninx, Melinda Magyari, Per Soerensen, Xavier Montalban, Grace Lavelle, Alina Ivan, Carolin Oetzmann, Katie White, Sonia Difrancesco, Patrick Locatelli, David C Mohr, Jordi Aguiló, Vaibhav Narayan, Amos Folarin, Richard JB Dobson, Judith Dineley, Daniel Leightley, Nicholas Cummins, Yatharth Ranjan, Zulqarnain Rashid, Srinivasan Vairavan, Aki Rintala Giovanni De Girolamo, Antonio Preti, Sara Simblett, Til Wykes, Inez Germeys, Josep Maria Haro. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2022.
The association between persistent cognitive difficulties and depression and functional outcomes in people with Major Depressive Disorder
Faith Matcham, Sara Simblett, Daniel Leightley, Dalby, M., Siddi, S., Haro, J.M., Lamers, F., Penninx, B.W.H.J., Bruce, S, Nica, R, Zormpas, S, Gilpin, G., Katie White, Carolin Oetzmann, Annas, P., Brasen, J.C, Narayan, V. A, Hotopf, M, Wykes, T, for the RADAR-CNS consortium. Psychological Medicine, 2022.
An Expert and Veteran User Assessment of the Usability of an Alcohol Reduction App for Military Veterans - Drinks:Ration: A Mixed-Methods Pilot Study
Charlotte Williamson, Danielle Dryden, Laura Palmer, Roberto Rona, Amos Simms, Nicola T. Fear, Laura Goodwin, Dominic Murphy and Daniel Leightley. Journal of Military Behavioral Health, 2022.
Lessons learned from recruiting into a longitudinal remote measurement study in Major Depressive Disorder.
Carolin Oetzmann, Katie White, Alina Ivan, Jessica Julie, Daniel Leightley, Grace Lavelle, Femke Lamers, Sara Siddi, Peter Annas, Sara Garcia, Josep Maria Haro, David Mohr, Brenda Penninx, Sara Simblett, Til Wykes, Vaibhav Narayan, Matthew Hotopf, Faith Matcham, and RADAR-CNS Consortium. npj Digital Medicine, 2022.
Indicators of recent COVID-19 infection status: Findings from a large occupational cohort of staff and postgraduate research students from a UK university.
Katrina A. S. Davis, Ewan Carr, Daniel Leightley, Valentina Vitiello, Gabriella Bergin-Cartwright, Grace Lavelle, Alice Wickersham, Michael H. Malim, Carolin Oetzmann, Catherine Polling, Sharon A.M Stevelink, Reza Razavi, Matthew Hotopf, On behalf of the KCL CHECK research team. BMC Public Health, 2022.
Associations Between Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Quality of Life and Alcohol Misuse Among UK veterans.
Daniel Leightley, Charlotte Williamson, Major Amos Simms, Nicola T. Fear, Laura Goodwin and Dominic Murphy. Journal of Military Behavioral Health, 2022. [PDF]
Evaluating the efficacy of a mobile app (Drinks:Ration) to reduce alcohol consumption in a help-seeking military veteran population: Randomised Controlled Trial.
Daniel Leightley, Charlotte Williamson, Roberto Rona, Ewan Carr, James Shearer, Jordan D. Davis, Amos Simms, Nicola T. Fear, Laura Goodwin and Dominic Murphy. Journal of Internet Medical Research: mHealth & uHealth, 2022.
Predictors of engagement with remote sensing technologies for symptom measurement in Major Depressive Disorder.
Faith Matcham, Ewan Carr, Daniel Leightley, Femke Lamers, Sara Siddi, Peter Annas, Giovanni de Girolamo, Josep Maria Haro, Melany Horsfall, Alina Ivan, Grace Lavelle, Qingqin Li, Federica Lombardini, David C. Mohr, Vaibhav Narayan, Brenda W. Penninx, Carolin Oetzmann, Sara Simblett, Til Wykes, Jens Christian Brasen, Inez Myin-Germeys, Pauline Conde, Richard Dobson, Amos Folarin, Yatharth Ranjan, Zulqarnain Rashid, Nicholas Cummins, Srinivasan Vairavan and Matthew Hotopf, on behalf of the RADAR-CNS consortium, Journal of Affective Disorders, 2022.
Recruiting Military Veterans into Alcohol Misuse Research: The Role of Social Media and Facebook Advertising.
Charlotte Williamson, Roberto J. Rona, Amos Simms, Nicola T. Fear, Laura Goodwin, Dominic Murphy and Daniel Leightley, Telemedicine and e-Health, 2022 [PDF]
Childhood adversity, combat experiences, and military sexual trauma: a test and extension of the stress sensitization hypothesis.
Jordan Davis, John Prindle, Shaddy Saba, Daniel Lee, Daniel Leightley, Denise Tran, Angeles Sedano, Reagan Fitzke, Eric Pedersen and Carl Castro. Psychological Medicine, 2022.
Trajectories of mental health among UK university staff and postgraduate students during the pandemic.
Ewan Carr, Carolin Oetzmann, Katrina Davis, Gabriella Bergin-Cartwright, Sarah Dorrington, Grace Lavelle, Daniel Leightley, Catherine Polling, Sharon Stevelink, Alice Wickersham, Valentina Vitiello, Reza Razavi and Matthew Hotopf. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2022.
Remote Assessment of Disease and Relapse in Major Depressive Disorder (RADAR-MDD): Recruitment, retention, and data availability in a longitudinal remote measurement study.
Faith Matcham, Daniel Leightley, Sara Siddi, Femke Lamers, Katie White, Peter Annas, Giovanni de Girolamo, Sonia Difrancesco, Josep Maria Haro, Melany Horsfall, Alina Ivan, Grace Lavelle, Qingqin Li, Federica Lombardini, David C. Mohr, Vaibhav Narayan, Carolin Oetzmann, Brenda W. Penninx, Stuart Bruce, Raluca Nica Sara Simblett, Til Wykes, Jens Christian Brasen, Inez Myin-Germeys, Aki Rintala, Pauline Conde, Richard Dobson, Amos Folarin, Callum Stewart, Yatharth Ranjan, Zulqarnain Rashid, Nicholas Cummins, Nikolay V Manyakov, Srinivasan Vairavan and Matthew Hotopf, BMC Psychiatry, 2022.
Smartphone-Based Alcohol Interventions: A Systematic Review on the Role of Notifications in Changing Behaviours Towards Alcohol.
Charlotte Williamson, Katie White, Roberto J. Rona, Amos Simms, Nicola T Fear, Laura Goodwin, Dominic Murphy and Daniel Leightley, Journal of Substance Abuse, 2022.
Digital Health Tools for the Passive Monitoring of Depression: A Systematic Review of Methods.
Valeria de Angel, Serena Lewis, Katie White, Carolin Oetzmann, Daniel Leightley, Emanuela Oprea, Grace Lavelle, Faith Matcham, Alice Pace, David C Mohr, Richard Dobson and Matthew Hotopf, npj Digital Medicine, 2022.
RADAR-Engage: Protocol for a two-armed randomized controlled trial exploring the effects of in-app components on engagement with a symptom tracking platform among participants with major depressive disorder.
Katie M White, Faith Matcham, Daniel Leightley, Ewan Carr, Pauline Conde, Erin Dawe-Lane, Yatharth Ranjan, Sara Simblett, Claire Henderson and Matthew Hotopf, JMIR Research Protocols, 2021.
Mental health among UK university staff and postgraduate students in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ewan Carr, Katrina Davis, Gabriella Bergin-Cartwright, Grace Lavelle, Daniel Leightley, Carolin Oetzmann, Catherine Polling, Sharon A. M. Stevelink, Alice Wickersham, Reza Razavi and Matthew Hotopf. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2021.
Investigating the impact of COVID-19 lockdown on adults with a recent history of recurrent major depressive disorder: a multi-Centre study using remote measurement technology.
Daniel Leightley, Grace Lavelle, Katie M White, Shaoxiong Sun, Faith Matcham, Alina Ivan, Carolin Oetzmann, Brenda WJH Penninx, Femke Lamers, Sara Siddi, Josep Mario Haro, Inez Myin-Germeys, Stuart Bruce, Raluca Nica, Alice Wickersham, Peter Annas, David C. Mohr, Sara Simblett, Til Wykes, Nicholas Cummins, Amos Akinola Folarin, Pauline Conde, Yatharth Ranjan, Richard JB Dobson, Viabhav A Narayan, Mathew Hotopf, on behalf of the RADAR-CNS Consortium. BMC Psychiatry, 2021.
The psychosocial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on 4,378 UK healthcare workers and ancillary staff: initial baseline data from a cohort study collected during the first wave of the pandemic.
Danielle Lamb, Sam Gnanapragasam, Neil Greenberg, Rupa Bhundia, Ewan Carr, Matthew Hotopf, Reza Razavi, Rosalind Raine, Sean Cross, Amy Dewar, Mary Docherty, Sarah Dorrington, Stephani L Hatch, Charlotte Wilson-Jones, Daniel Leightley, Ira Madan, Sally Marlow, Isabel McMullen, Anne Marie Rafferty, Martin Parsons, Catherine Polling, Danai Serfioti, Peter Aitken, Veronica French, Helen Gaunt, Joanna Morris-Bone, Rachel Harris, Chloe Simela, Sharon A M Stevelink, Simon Wessely. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2021.
Changes in physical activity among United Kingdom university students following the implementation of coronavirus lock-down measures.
Alice Wickersham, Ewan Carr, Ryan Hunt, Jordan P. Davis, Matthew Hotopf, Nicola T. Fear, Johnny Downs and Daniel Leightley. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021.
Evaluating the Efficacy of a Mobile App (Drinks:Ration) and Personalized Text and Push Messaging to Reduce Alcohol Consumption in a Veteran Population: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.
Daniel Leightley, Roberto J Rona, James Shearer, Charlotte Williamson, Cerisse Gunasinghe, Amos Simms, Nicola T. Fear, Laura Goodwin and Dominic Murphy. JMIR Research Protocols, 2020.
Hospital admissions for non-communicable disease in the UK military and associations with alcohol use and mental health: A data linkage study.
Laura Goodwin, Daniel Leightley, Zoe Chui, Sabine Landau, Paul McCrone, Richard Hayes, Margaret Jones, Simon Wessely and Nicola Fear. BMC Public Health, 2020.
The Development of the Military Service Identification Tool: Identifying Military Veterans in a Clinical Research Database using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.
Daniel Leightley, David Pernet, Sumithra Velupillai, Robert J. Stewart, Katharine M. Mark, Elena Opie, Dominic Murphy, Nicola T. Fear, Sharon A.M. Stevelink. JMIR Medical Informatics, 2020.
The association between paternal psychopathology and adolescent depression and anxiety: A systematic review.
Alice Wickersham, Daniel Leightley, Marc Archer and Nicola T. Fear. Journal of Adolescence.
Identifying veterans using electronic health records in the United Kingdom: A feasibility study.
Daniel Leightley, Katharine M. Mark, David Pernet, Dominic Murphy, Sharon A.M. Stevelink and Nicola T. Fear. MDPI Healthcare, 2019.
Drinking motivations in UK serving and ex-serving military personnel.
Patricia Irizar, Daniel Leightley, Sharon Stevelink, Roberto Rona, Norman Jones, Katerina Gouni, Jo-Anne Puddephatt, Nicola Fear, Simon Wessely and Laura Goodwin. Occupational Medicine, 2019.
Predictors of adolescents' first-episode of homelessness following substance use treatment.
Graham DiGuiseppi, Jordan P. Davis, Daniel Leightley and Eric Rice. Journal of Adolescent Health, 2019.
Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity in biomedical literature search.
Peter Brown, RELISH Consortium and Yaoqi Zhou. Databases, 2019.
A Qualitative Evaluation of the Acceptability of a Tailored Smartphone Alcohol Intervention for a Military Population: Information About Drinking for Ex-Serving Personnel (InDEx) App.
Jo-Anne Puddephatt, Daniel Leightley, Laura Palmer, Norman Jones, Toktam Mahmoodi, Colin Drummond, Roberto Rona, Nicola T Fear, Matt Field and Laura Goodwin. Journal of Internet Medical Research: mHealth & uHealth, 2019.
Efficacy of mobile application interventions for the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A systematic review.
Alice Wickersham, Petros Minas Petrides, Victoria Williamson and Daniel Leightley. Digital Health, 2019.
Risk Assessment Tools and Data-driven Approaches for Predicting and Preventing Suicidal Behaviour.
Sumithra Velupillai, Gergö Hadlaczky, Enrique Baca-Garcia, Genevieve M Gorrell, Nomi Werbeloff, Dong Nguyen, Rashmi Patel, Daniel Leightley, Johnny Downs, Matthew Hotopf and Rina Dutta. Frontiers in Psychiatry, section Psychopathology, 2019.
Identifying probable Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Applying supervised machine learning to data from a UK military cohort.
Daniel Leightley, Victoria Williamson, John Darby and Nicola T. Fear, Journal of Mental Health, 2018. PDF
A Smartphone App and Personalized Text Messaging Framework (InDEx) to Monitor and Reduce Alcohol Use in Ex-Serving Personnel: Development and Feasibility Study.
Daniel Leightley, Jo-Anne Puddephatt, Norman Jones, Toktam Mahmoodi, Zoe Chui, Matt Field, Colin Drummond, Roberto J. Rona, Nicola T Fear and Laura Goodwin. Journal of Internet Medical Research: mHealth & uHealth, 2018.
InDEx: Open source iOS and Android software for self-reporting and monitoring of alcohol consumption.
Daniel Leightley, Jo-Anne Puddephatt, Laura Goodwin, Roberto Rona, Nicola T. Fear. Journal of Open Research Software, 2018.
Digital Analysis of Sit-to-Stand in Master Athletes, Healthy Old and Young Adults using a Depth Sensor.
Daniel Leightley and Moi Hoon Yap. MDPI Healthcare, 2018.
Integrating Electronic Healthcare Records of Armed Forces Personnel: Developing a framework for evaluating health outcomes in England, Scotland and Wales.
Daniel Leightley, Zoe Chui, Margaret Jones, Sabine Landau, Paul McCrone, Richard D. Hayes, Simon Wessely, Nicola T. Fear and Laura Goodwin. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2018. (PDF) [524kb]
Postural stability during standing balance and sit-to-stand in master athlete runners compared with non-athletic old and young adults.
Daniel Leightley, Moi Hoon Yap, Jessica Coulson, Mathew Piasecki, James Cameron, Yoann Barnouin, Jon Tobias and Jamie S. McPhee. Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, 2017. (PDF) [171kb]
Automated Analysis and Quantification of Human Mobility using a Depth Sensor.
Daniel Leightley, Jamie S. McPhee and Moi-Hoon Yap. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2017. Featured Article
Refereed Conferences.
Remote smartphone-based speech collection: acceptance and barriers in individuals with major depressive disorder.
Judith Dineley, Grace Lavelle, Daniel Leightley, Faith Matcham, Sara Siddi, Maria Teresa Penarrubia-Mariaa, Katie White, Alina Ivan, Carolin Oetzmann, Sara Simblett, Erin Dawe-Lane, Stuart Bruce, Daniel Stahl, Josep Maria Haro, Til Wykes, Vaibhav Narayan, Matthew Hotopf, Bjorn Schuller, Nicholas Cummins and The RADAR-CNS Consortium. InterSpeech, 2021.
Modelling attributes of common mental health disorders in adolescents using audio-visual data.
Daniel Leightley, Alice Wickersham and Nicola T. Fear. Measuring Behaviour, 2018.
A Comparative Study Of The Clinical Use Of Motion Analysis from Kinect Skeleton Data.
Sean Maudsley-Barton, Jamie McPhee, Anthony Bukowski, Daniel Leightley and Moi Hoon Yap. IEEE Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2017. (PDF) [189kb]
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Motion Instability Identification using Kinect.
Daniel Leightley, Subhas C. Mukhopadhyay, Hemant Ghayvat and Moi Hoon Yap. Conference on Machine Vision Applications, 2017. (PDF) [207kb] | (Poster) [565kb]
Sensing Behaviour using the Kinect: Identifying Characteristic Features of Instability and Poor Performance During Challenging Balancing Tasks.
Daniel Leightley, Moi-Hoon Yap, Brett M. Hewitt and Jamie S. McPhee. Measuring Behaviour, 2016. (PDF) [248kb]
Benchmarking Human Motion Analysis Using Kinect One: an open source dataset.
Daniel Leightley, Moi-Hoon Yap, Jessica Coulson, Yoann Barnoouin and Jamie S. McPhee. Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association, 2015. (PDF) [323kb]
Development of Exergame-based Virtual Trainer for Physical Therapy using Kinect.
Baihua Li, Mark Maxwell, Daniel Leightley, Angela Lindsay, Wendy Johnson and Andrew Ruck. Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Games for Health, 2015. (PDF) [251kb]
Exemplar-based Human Action Recognition with Template Matching from a Stream of Motion Capture.
Daniel Leightley, Baihua Li, Jamie S. McPhee, Moi Hoon Yap and John Darby. Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Image Analysis and Recognition, 2015. (PDF) [509kb]
Micro-Facial Movements: An Investigation on Spatio-Temporal Descriptors.
Adrian K. Davison, Moi Hoon Yap, Nicholas Costen, Kevin Tan, Cliff Lansley and Daniel Leightley. European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, 2014. (PDF) [1.1MB]
Human Activity Recognition for Physical Rehabilitation.
Daniel Leightley, John Darby, Baihua Li, Jamie S. McPhee and Moi Hoon Yap. IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2013. (PDF) [250kb]
Refereed Abstracts.
Evaluating the Efficacy of a Mobile App (Drinks:Ration) to Reduce Alcohol Consumption in a Veteran Population: Preliminary results.
Daniel Leightley, Charlotte Williamson, Roberto Rona, Amos Simms, Nicola T. Fear, Laura Goodwin and Dominic Murphy. CIMVHR, 2021.
An Expert and Veteran User Assessment of the Usability of the Alcohol Reduction App, Drinks:Ration: A Pilot Study.
Charlotte Williamson, Roberto Rona, Amos Simms, Nicola T. Fear, Laura Goodwin, Dominic Murphy and Daniel Leightley. CIMVHR, 2021.
Remote Assessment of Disease and Relapse in Major Depressive Disorder: Outline and first results. Consotrium Paper. Society for Ambulatory Assessment Conference, 2021.
Analysis of supportive messaging to reduce alcohol consumption: initial investigation.
Alice Wickersham, Alison McKinlay, Jo-Anne Puddephatt, Margaret Jones, Norman Jones, Roberto J. Rona, Nicola T. Fear, Laura Goodwin and Daniel Leightley. 6th Annual Conference - Behaviour Change for Health: current and emerging science and technologies, London, 2020.
Identifying Military Veterans in a Clinical Research Database using Natural Language Processing.
Daniel Leightley, Katharine M Mark, David Pernet, Dominic Murphy,Nicola T Fear and Sharon AM Stevelink. Conference Proceedings for International Conference on Administrative Data Research 2019, Cardiff, December 2019. (Presentation Slides [2.1MB])
Identifying Military Veterans in a Clinical Research Database: Evaluation of two methods.
Daniel Leightley, Katherine Mark, Elena Opie, David Pernet, Dominic Murphy, Nicola T. Fear and Sharon A. M. Stevelink. CIMVHR Forum 2019, Canada.
Information about Drinking for Ex-serving personnel: Development of a smartphone application (app) for alcohol monitoring.
Daniel Leightley, Jo-Anne Puddephatt and Laura Goodwin. 4th Annual Conference - Behaviour Change for Health: Digital & Beyond, London, 2018. (Presentation Slides [3.9mb])
Information about Drinking for Ex-Serving Personnel (InDEx): Development of a smartphone application (app) for alcohol monitoring.
Daniel Leightley, Jo-Anne Puddephatt and Laura Goodwin. 13th UKSBM Annual Scientific Meeting: Working together for healthy living: Multidisciplinary behavioural medicine, Liverpool, December 2017. (Abstract [431kb])
Can we use Outpatient and Accident & Emergency records from Health Episode Statistics for epidemiological research?.
Daniel Leightley, Zoe Chui and Laura Goodwin. 18th meeting of the Section of Epidemiology and Social Psychiatry of the European Psychiatric Association, Sweden, November 2016. (Poster [850kb])
Understanding NHS hospital admissions in England, Scotland and Wales: data linkage to the King’s Centre for Military Health Research Cohort Study.
Daniel Leightley, Zoe Chui and Laura Goodwin. Conference Proceedings for International Conference on Administrative Data Research 2016, Swansea, August 2016. (Presentation Slides)
Understanding hospital admissions for military personnel in England, Scotland and Wales: a data linkage study.
Daniel Leightley, Zoe Chui and Laura Goodwin. Society for Social Medicine’s 60th Annual Scientific Meeting, York, September 2016. (Poster Presentation [750Kb])
Book Chapters
Sentiment of Armed Forces Social Media Accounts in the United Kingdom: An Initial Analysis of Twitter Content
Daniel Leightley, Marie-Louise Sharp, Victoria Williamson, Nicola T. Fear and Rachael Gribble. 2020. In: Moehlecke de Baseggio E., Schneider O., Szvircsev Tresch T. (eds) Social Media and the Armed Forces. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer, Cham. (PDF [750kb])
Media/Outreach.
Alcohol misuse is more common in the armed forces than post-traumatic stress disorder. The Conversation UK Online.
Increase in PTSD among UK veterans who served in Afghanistan and Iraq – new research. The Conversation UK Online.
Invited Talks.
Managing the Mental Health of the Armed Forces: The role of digital health technologies and personalised healthcare
Daniel Leightley. Virtual Workshop - AI and Defence: Readiness, Resilience and Mental Health, 2023. (Presentation Slides)
Is paternal depression and PTSD associated with adolescent anxiety-related disorders and depression? A study of UK serving and ex-serving military families. 10th ESFR Conference, Online, 2021. (Presentation Slides)
Managing Mental Health by Automation: The role of digital health technologies. NATO RTG: Exploring Personalized Medicine in Mental Health and Performance, London, Uk. 2019.
Identifying probable PTSD using machine learning. AI in Mental Health. London, Uk. 2019. (Presentation Slides)
InDEx: Managing alcohol misuse using automation. DSEI: Medical Innovation - Industry event. London, Uk. 2019. (Presentation Slides)
InDEx: An app to manage alcohol misuse in veterans. Veterans' Mental Health Conference. London, Uk. 2019. (Presentation Slides)
Digital Technology: The future of e-health. University of Kent. Kent, Uk. 2018.
InDEx: managing alcohol misuse by automation. RE-WORK: Deep Learning in Healthcare – Industry Summit. London, Uk. 2018.
Technology and its role in mental health treatment of the armed forces. Mental Health Technologies Summit – Researcher Links. China. 2018.
Thoughts on the use of technology in mental health and the military. University of Southern California and King's College London Symposium. USA. 2017.
What is deep learning, and why you should care?. Manchester Metropolitan University. UK. 2017.
Information about Drinking for Ex-Serving Personnel - InDEx. Defence Mental Health Conference. Hosted by Defence Mental Health Services, British Armed Forces. 2016.
Misc.
Navigating the software development landscape: Introducing the term Research Viable Product (RVP) – Short Position Statement
Daniel Leightley, Open Science Framework
INQ000056396 – Rule 9 Questionnaire Response from Dr Daniel Leightley, Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours (SPI-B) to the Covid-19 Inquiry
Daniel Leightley
Comment - Maximising the positive and minimising the negative: Social media data to study youth mental health with informed consent
Daniel Leightley, Amanda Bye, Ben Carter, Kylee Trevillion, Stella Branthonne-Foster, Maria Liakata, Anthony Wood, Dennis Ougrin, Amy Orben, Tamsin Ford and Rina Dutta. Perspective, Front. Psychiatry - Digital Mental Health, 2022.
Comment - Personalised Digital Technology for Mental Health in the Armed Forces: the potential, the hype and the dangers.
Daniel Leightley and Dominic Murphy. BMJ Military Health, 2022.
The Military Service Identification Tool: A utility, feasibility and validation study for identifying veterans from a secondary mental health case register and comparing their sociodemographic, diagnostic and service utilisation characteristics to civilians and Combat Stress veterans.
Laura Palmer, Daniel Leightley, Charlotte Williamson, Katharine Mark, David Pernet, Elena Opie, Dominic Murphy, Sharon Stevelink, Nicola T. Fear. FiMT Report. Not peer reviewed.
Drinks:Ration - The role of a smartphone application in reducing alcohol consumption in a veteran population seeking formal mental health support.
Daniel Leightley, Charlotte Williamson, Ewan Carr, Roberto J Rona, James Shearer, Amos Simms, Nicola T. Fear, Laura Goodwin and Dominic Murphy. FiMT Report. Not peer reviewed.
Evaluating the Efficacy of a Mobile App (Drinks:Ration) and Personalised Text and Push Messaging to Reduce Alcohol Consumption in a Veteran Population: Randomised Controlled Trial.
Daniel Leightley, Charlotte Williamson, Ewan Carr, Jordan Paul Davis, Roberto J Rona, James Shearer, Amos Simms, Nicola T. Fear, Laura Goodwin and Dominic Murphy. Open Science Framework. Not peer reviewed.
Real Stories 2021 - Our Armed Forces families today.
The King's College London Coronavirus Health and Experiences of Colleagues at King's Study: SARS-CoV-2 antibody response in an occupational sample.
Daniel Leightley, Valentina Vitiello, Gabriella Bergin-Cartwright, Alice Wickersham, Katrina A S Davis, Sharon Stevelink, Matthew Hotopf, Reza Razavi, On behalf of the KCL CHECK research team. medRxiv. 2020. Not peer reviewed.
Understanding the experiences of young adults during and post-lockdown using HeadSmart: A focus on wellbeing, behaviours and attitudes.
Alice Wickersham, Cerisse Gunasinghe, Dominic Murphy, Nicola T. Fear and Daniel Leightley. Open Science Framework. Not peer reviewed.
The King's College London Coronavirus Health and Experiences of Colleagues at King's Study (KCL CHECK) protocol paper: a platform for study of the effects of coronavirus pandemic on staff and postgraduate students. Research Study Protocol. medRxiv. 2020. Not peer reviewed.
The mHealth revolution. First-hand experiences - Lt Col Norman Jones & Dr Dan Leightley - The Military Medicine Podcast. 2019.
Expert Chair: Healthcare round table discussions. RE-WORK: Deep Learning in Healthcare – Industry Summit. London, Uk. 2018.
Special Issue: Measuring Behaviour 2018 - Symposia: Facial Expressions Analysis of Human and Animal Behavior Chairs:
Daniel Leightley, Adrian Keith Davison and Moi Hoon Yap.
3D Human Action Recognition and Motion Analysis using Selective Representations.
Daniel Leightley. 2015. (PDF [5.2MB])
Vision-based human motion analysis for the development of automated rehabilitation tools.
Daniel Leightley, Baihua Li, Jamie S. McPhee, Moi Hoon Yap and Kevin Tan. Manchester Metropolitan University Student Development Day, April 2013. (PDF) [103kb]
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