Jason Ellis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3592239 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason Ellis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason |
| FAMILY NAME | Ellis |
| SIGNATURE | ELLIS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northumbria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8496-520X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The interplay between bilingualism and sleep quality in modulating executive performance
We investigated the interactive effects of bilingualism and sleep on executive functioning at the behavioral level. We conducted two experiments using two independent samples of bilingual young adults, the Flanker task to assess executive performance, the Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index to measure retrospective sleep quality over a one-month period and the Insomnia Severity Index to assess insomnia-related symptoms. In Experiment 1, we registered b…
Bruce Curtis, “Beryl on the Margins
Correction Page 71. Two recently uncovered newspaper obituaries for Beryl’s stepmother from February, 1903 suggest that Beryl lost her hearing not in 1897, but rather in this later year. Both sources describe her as being deathly ill with both scarlet fever and diphtheria. Since she spoke so well in later life, it is likely at age 12, not age 5, that she lost her hearing. Page 79, Figure 4. Beryl’s car is a circa 1920 Ford Roadster, not a 1930 Fo…
"Crystal Gail Fraser and Jessica Dunkin, "'This Year Book…has been entirely produced by staff and students'
We publish below corrections to Crystal Gail Fraser and Jessica Dunkin’s article, “This Year Book ... has been entirely produced by staff and students’: Indigenous Youth, Indian Schooling, and Historical Production in the Northwest Territories, 1959–71,” HSE/RHÉ 35, no. 1 (Spring 2023): 65–94. https://doi.org/10.32316/hse-rhe.vi0.5147 Page 90. Footnote 47 erroneously lists the location of the 1967–68 edition of the Borean as the Fort Smith Vertic…
Serious Questions from Serious People
This article examines two venues where historians of education have in the past addressed serious, publicly significant questions: commissions of inquiry and courtrooms where education rights and educational injustices are litigated. The article argues that these two examples demonstrate historians’ particular skills and abilities as evidence-gatherers, clear communicators, strong generalists, and experts in making sense of change over time. The …
The Role of Sleep Effort as a Mediator Between Anxiety and Depression
Depression, anxiety, and insomnia are all conditions that share a complex bidirectional relationship. Sleep effort is a construct with cognitive and behavioral components that perpetuates insomnia. Although many studies have examined the associations between these three variables, no studies have yet examined sleep effort as a mediating variable between anxiety and depression and vice versa. Online versions of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression …
Schooling in Western Canada, 1870–1923
This essay is about the history of schooling in Western Canada for Indigenous peoples, non- British and non-English-speaking White settlers, and Chinese Canadians and Japanese Canadians. It brings their different schooling experiences into conversation with one another using an anti-racist approach to history. Different racisms, the essay argues, determined the different policies governments used to school these groups in Western Canada, which co…
The State of the System
Reviewed by: The State of the System: A Reality Check on Canada's Schools by Paul W. Bennett Jason Ellis Bennett, Paul W. – The State of the System: A Reality Check on Canada's Schools. Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. 306 p. There are several different ways to read Paul Bennett's The State of the System: A Reality Check on Canada's Schools. It can be read as a history of late-twentieth-century school reforms. It can …
Public School Taxes and the Remaking of Suburban Space and History
This article examines public school taxes, housing, and changing suburban space in Etobicoke Township (suburban Toronto) between 1945 and 1954. Bridging educational and urban and suburban history, and incorporating recent insights from tax history, it examines the role that school taxes played in transforming Etobicoke from a rural and income-mixed pre-war suburb into a more middle-class, homogenous post-war one. School trustees taxed the new, mi…
The Impact of Perceived Sleep, Mood and Alcohol Use on Verbal, Physical and Sexual Assault Experiences among Student Athletes and Student Non-Athletes
Previous research has shown that student athletes are more likely to be involved in a physical altercation or be a victim of verbal, physical and/or sexual abuse than student non-athletes, which can have long-lasting negative effects on mood, behavior and quality of life. In addition, among college students, sleep difficulties are ubiquitous and may deteriorate the unique life experience that university represents. The influences of poor sleep qu…
Anxiety, Insomnia, and Napping Predict Poorer Sleep Quality in an Autistic Adult Population
Autistic adults have a high prevalence of sleep problems and psychiatric conditions. In the general population sleep problems have been associated with a range of demographic and lifestyle factors. Whether the same factors contribute to different types of disturbed sleep experienced by autistic adults is unknown and served as the main aim of this study. An online survey was conducted with 493 autistic adults. Demographic information (e.g., age, g…
Dealing with sleep problems during home confinement due to the Covid‐19 outbreak
In the current global home confinement situation due to the COVID‐19 outbreak, most individuals are exposed to an unprecedented stressful situation of unknown duration. This may not only increase daytime stress, anxiety and depression levels, but also disrupt sleep. Importantly, because of the fundamental role that sleep plays in emotion regulation, sleep disturbance can have direct consequences upon next day emotional functioning. In this paper,…
Counting sleep? Critical reflections on a UK national sleep strategy
The United Kingdom Government are planning to issue guidance on sleep duration. Whilst sleep is clearly important for health, offering such guidance is not the answer. Within this commentary we put forward three arguments to support this claim: (i) sleep is liminal and beyond the limits of voluntary agency; (ii) sleep is linked to structural inequality; and (iii) sleep is multiple. The first two points are now well established. However, the third…
Professor Bailyn, Meet Professor Baynton
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A Class by Themselves?
In A Class by Themselves? , Jason Ellis provides a erudite and balanced history of special needs education, an early twentieth century educational innovation that continues to polarize school communities across Canada, the United States, and beyond.
European guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of insomnia
This European guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of insomnia was developed by a task force of the European Sleep Research Society, with the aim of providing clinical recommendations for the management of adult patients with insomnia. The guideline is based on a systematic review of relevant meta‐analyses published till June 2016. The target audience for this guideline includes all clinicians involved in the management of insomnia, and the …
Early Educational Exclusion
This article uses pupil records and patient files from Toronto, along with other sources, to examine the interconnected rise of special education classes and the complete exclusion from public schools of children labelled with a form of mental deficiency referred to as “idiocy” or “imbecility” or later represented by an intelligence quotient below fifty. It was the first provincial special education laws that also enabled schools to legally exclu…
People with insomnia
BACKGROUND: Sedative hypnotics form an important part of managing insomnia and are recommended for short-term use. It is standard practice for clinicians to inform the patient to use medications only 'when required', but the use of these medications is often chronic. Little is known about the impact of standard labelling/instructions on promoting appropriate medication use for managing insomnia. OBJECTIVE: To explore patient medication-taking bel…
Assessing the daily stability of the cortisol awakening response in a controlled environment
The stability of the CAR profile and total cortisol secretion, but not awakening cortisol levels or the magnitude of increase, was demonstrated across two consecutive mornings of measurement in a highly-controlled environment. Awakening cortisol levels, and the magnitude of increase, may be sensitive to differences in daily activities
An education and negotiation of differences
In this paper we present oral narratives focusing on schooling experiences of Canadians who lived with polio as children between 1940 and 1959. We argue that disabled students with polio received an education about the differences ascribed to them by individuals in authority (teachers, principals), by other young people, and through the dominant negative discourses of polio and normalizing, ableist practices of schooling. Using narrative accounts…
Inequalities of Children in Original Endowment”
“There are few if any more significant events in modern educational history than the developments which have recently taken place in methods of mental measurement,” Lewis Terman wrote in 1923 about the intelligence testing movement he did so much to pioneer in American schools throughout the 1920s. Indeed educational historians, particularly Paul Chapman, have shown that the rise of intelligence testing provoked large and relatively swift changes…
Combating Proliferation
Beyond Nonproliferation
The paradox of an impoverished state developing and exporting increasingly capable missile systems bears witness to the steady increase in the number and capabilities of secondary, often less developed, proliferation suppliers. This "secondary proliferation" is largely unaffected by traditional nonproliferation tools, although in some cases they may slow, raise the financial or political cost of, or otherwise stigmatize development of weapons of …
Nunn‐Lugar's mid‐life crisis
An education and negotiation of differences
In this paper we present oral narratives focusing on schooling experiences of Canadians who lived with polio as children between 1940 and 1959. We argue that disabled students with polio received an education about the differences ascribed to them by individuals in authority (teachers, principals), by other young people, and through the dominant negative discourses of polio and normalizing, ableist practices of schooling. Using narrative accounts…
Inequalities of Children in Original Endowment”
“There are few if any more significant events in modern educational history than the developments which have recently taken place in methods of mental measurement,” Lewis Terman wrote in 1923 about the intelligence testing movement he did so much to pioneer in American schools throughout the 1920s. Indeed educational historians, particularly Paul Chapman, have shown that the rise of intelligence testing provoked large and relatively swift changes…
Nunn‐Lugar's mid‐life crisis
Beyond Nonproliferation
The paradox of an impoverished state developing and exporting increasingly capable missile systems bears witness to the steady increase in the number and capabilities of secondary, often less developed, proliferation suppliers. This "secondary proliferation" is largely unaffected by traditional nonproliferation tools, although in some cases they may slow, raise the financial or political cost of, or otherwise stigmatize development of weapons of …
Combating Proliferation
An education and negotiation of differences
In this paper we present oral narratives focusing on schooling experiences of Canadians who lived with polio as children between 1940 and 1959. We argue that disabled students with polio received an education about the differences ascribed to them by individuals in authority (teachers, principals), by other young people, and through the dominant negative discourses of polio and normalizing, ableist practices of schooling. Using narrative accounts…
Inequalities of Children in Original Endowment”
“There are few if any more significant events in modern educational history than the developments which have recently taken place in methods of mental measurement,” Lewis Terman wrote in 1923 about the intelligence testing movement he did so much to pioneer in American schools throughout the 1920s. Indeed educational historians, particularly Paul Chapman, have shown that the rise of intelligence testing provoked large and relatively swift changes…
People with insomnia
BACKGROUND: Sedative hypnotics form an important part of managing insomnia and are recommended for short-term use. It is standard practice for clinicians to inform the patient to use medications only 'when required', but the use of these medications is often chronic. Little is known about the impact of standard labelling/instructions on promoting appropriate medication use for managing insomnia. OBJECTIVE: To explore patient medication-taking bel…
Assessing the daily stability of the cortisol awakening response in a controlled environment
The stability of the CAR profile and total cortisol secretion, but not awakening cortisol levels or the magnitude of increase, was demonstrated across two consecutive mornings of measurement in a highly-controlled environment. Awakening cortisol levels, and the magnitude of increase, may be sensitive to differences in daily activities
European guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of insomnia
This European guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of insomnia was developed by a task force of the European Sleep Research Society, with the aim of providing clinical recommendations for the management of adult patients with insomnia. The guideline is based on a systematic review of relevant meta‐analyses published till June 2016. The target audience for this guideline includes all clinicians involved in the management of insomnia, and the …
Early Educational Exclusion
This article uses pupil records and patient files from Toronto, along with other sources, to examine the interconnected rise of special education classes and the complete exclusion from public schools of children labelled with a form of mental deficiency referred to as “idiocy” or “imbecility” or later represented by an intelligence quotient below fifty. It was the first provincial special education laws that also enabled schools to legally exclu…
A Class by Themselves?
In A Class by Themselves? , Jason Ellis provides a erudite and balanced history of special needs education, an early twentieth century educational innovation that continues to polarize school communities across Canada, the United States, and beyond.
Dealing with sleep problems during home confinement due to the Covid‐19 outbreak
In the current global home confinement situation due to the COVID‐19 outbreak, most individuals are exposed to an unprecedented stressful situation of unknown duration. This may not only increase daytime stress, anxiety and depression levels, but also disrupt sleep. Importantly, because of the fundamental role that sleep plays in emotion regulation, sleep disturbance can have direct consequences upon next day emotional functioning. In this paper,…
Counting sleep? Critical reflections on a UK national sleep strategy
The United Kingdom Government are planning to issue guidance on sleep duration. Whilst sleep is clearly important for health, offering such guidance is not the answer. Within this commentary we put forward three arguments to support this claim: (i) sleep is liminal and beyond the limits of voluntary agency; (ii) sleep is linked to structural inequality; and (iii) sleep is multiple. The first two points are now well established. However, the third…
Professor Bailyn, Meet Professor Baynton
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Public School Taxes and the Remaking of Suburban Space and History
This article examines public school taxes, housing, and changing suburban space in Etobicoke Township (suburban Toronto) between 1945 and 1954. Bridging educational and urban and suburban history, and incorporating recent insights from tax history, it examines the role that school taxes played in transforming Etobicoke from a rural and income-mixed pre-war suburb into a more middle-class, homogenous post-war one. School trustees taxed the new, mi…
The Impact of Perceived Sleep, Mood and Alcohol Use on Verbal, Physical and Sexual Assault Experiences among Student Athletes and Student Non-Athletes
Previous research has shown that student athletes are more likely to be involved in a physical altercation or be a victim of verbal, physical and/or sexual abuse than student non-athletes, which can have long-lasting negative effects on mood, behavior and quality of life. In addition, among college students, sleep difficulties are ubiquitous and may deteriorate the unique life experience that university represents. The influences of poor sleep qu…
Anxiety, Insomnia, and Napping Predict Poorer Sleep Quality in an Autistic Adult Population
Autistic adults have a high prevalence of sleep problems and psychiatric conditions. In the general population sleep problems have been associated with a range of demographic and lifestyle factors. Whether the same factors contribute to different types of disturbed sleep experienced by autistic adults is unknown and served as the main aim of this study. An online survey was conducted with 493 autistic adults. Demographic information (e.g., age, g…
Schooling in Western Canada, 1870–1923
This essay is about the history of schooling in Western Canada for Indigenous peoples, non- British and non-English-speaking White settlers, and Chinese Canadians and Japanese Canadians. It brings their different schooling experiences into conversation with one another using an anti-racist approach to history. Different racisms, the essay argues, determined the different policies governments used to school these groups in Western Canada, which co…
The State of the System
Reviewed by: The State of the System: A Reality Check on Canada's Schools by Paul W. Bennett Jason Ellis Bennett, Paul W. – The State of the System: A Reality Check on Canada's Schools. Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. 306 p. There are several different ways to read Paul Bennett's The State of the System: A Reality Check on Canada's Schools. It can be read as a history of late-twentieth-century school reforms. It can …
The Role of Sleep Effort as a Mediator Between Anxiety and Depression
Depression, anxiety, and insomnia are all conditions that share a complex bidirectional relationship. Sleep effort is a construct with cognitive and behavioral components that perpetuates insomnia. Although many studies have examined the associations between these three variables, no studies have yet examined sleep effort as a mediating variable between anxiety and depression and vice versa. Online versions of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression …
Serious Questions from Serious People
This article examines two venues where historians of education have in the past addressed serious, publicly significant questions: commissions of inquiry and courtrooms where education rights and educational injustices are litigated. The article argues that these two examples demonstrate historians’ particular skills and abilities as evidence-gatherers, clear communicators, strong generalists, and experts in making sense of change over time. The …
Bruce Curtis, “Beryl on the Margins
Correction Page 71. Two recently uncovered newspaper obituaries for Beryl’s stepmother from February, 1903 suggest that Beryl lost her hearing not in 1897, but rather in this later year. Both sources describe her as being deathly ill with both scarlet fever and diphtheria. Since she spoke so well in later life, it is likely at age 12, not age 5, that she lost her hearing. Page 79, Figure 4. Beryl’s car is a circa 1920 Ford Roadster, not a 1930 Fo…
"Crystal Gail Fraser and Jessica Dunkin, "'This Year Book…has been entirely produced by staff and students'
We publish below corrections to Crystal Gail Fraser and Jessica Dunkin’s article, “This Year Book ... has been entirely produced by staff and students’: Indigenous Youth, Indian Schooling, and Historical Production in the Northwest Territories, 1959–71,” HSE/RHÉ 35, no. 1 (Spring 2023): 65–94. https://doi.org/10.32316/hse-rhe.vi0.5147 Page 90. Footnote 47 erroneously lists the location of the 1967–68 edition of the Borean as the Fort Smith Vertic…
The interplay between bilingualism and sleep quality in modulating executive performance
We investigated the interactive effects of bilingualism and sleep on executive functioning at the behavioral level. We conducted two experiments using two independent samples of bilingual young adults, the Flanker task to assess executive performance, the Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index to measure retrospective sleep quality over a one-month period and the Insomnia Severity Index to assess insomnia-related symptoms. In Experiment 1, we registered b…
Psychology (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Sleep and related disorders (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Insomnia (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Canadian Identity and History (5 works)