Professor Rori O'Connor

University of Glasgow, Scotland

**Professor Rory O’Connor** is Professor of Health Psychology at the University of Glasgow, Scotland and **President of the International Association for Suicide Prevention. ** Rory leads the **Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory** at the University of Glasgow, one of the leading suicide and self-harm research groups internationally and can be found on twitter (**@suicideresearch**). He has published extensively in the field of suicide and self-harm, specifically concerning the psychological processes which precipitate suicidal behaviour and self-harm. He is author of "Understanding Suicidal Behaviour" (with Noel Sheehy), co-editor of The Routledge Major Works Series on Suicide (with Keith Hawton) and co-editor of the International Handbook of Suicide Prevention (2nd edition with Jane Pirkis). He is on the editorial board of IASP’s journal Crisis and acts as an advisor to a wide range of international organisations including national governments on the areas of suicide and self-harm. His book "**_When It Is Darkest: Why People Die by Suicide and What We Can Do To Prevent It_**” was published in May 2021.