Rongqin Yu, PhD, is a Senior Researcher in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford. She works within the Forensic Psychiatry Group and the Centre for Suicide Research. 

Her research examines links between mental illness, violence (including sexual and domestic violence), self-harm and suicide, and the effects of imprisonment. 

She also studies resilience and how individual differences shape susceptibility to adverse environments. Her expertise includes large-scale epidemiological research using longitudinal analyses of questionnaire and administrative registry data; systematic reviews and meta-analyses; and development, validation and feasibility studies of risk assessment tools.