Elected: 2022
Discipline: Biomedical and Cognitive Sciences
Professor Rory O’Connor
Professor of Health Psychology, University of Glasgow
Rory O’Connor is Professor of Health Psychology at the University of Glasgow, President of the International Association for Suicide Prevention and a Past President of the International Academy of Suicide Research. Rory leads the Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory at Glasgow. He has published extensively in the field of suicide and self-harm, specifically concerning the psychological processes which precipitate suicide. He is also co-author/editor of several books and is author of the recent book When It is Darkest. Rory acts as an advisor to a range of national and international organisations including national governments on the areas of suicide and self-harm.