Ka-yuet Liu
Affiliation
- Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Project on the Social Determinants of Autism
Research
Ka-yuet Liu is a post-doctoral research scholar at ISERP. After conducting psychological and epidemiological research on suicidal behavior at the University of Hong Kong, she went to the University of Oxford with a JK Swire Memorial Scholarship for her PhD between 2004 and 2007. Her doctoral thesis, "Pathways to Suicidal Behaviour: A Mechanism-Based Approach," focuses on a range of mechanisms that generate social patterns of suicide. Her broader research interests are in the micro-macro links in sociological research and the effects of social interactions on health-related outcomes. Currently she is working with Peter Bearman to study the social determinants of autism.
Selected Work
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Liu Ka Y, Chow A, Lee DTS, Li PC, Cornwell Y, Caine E, Yip PSF (2007). Charcoal burning suicides in Hong Kong and urban Taiwan - An illustration of the impact of a novel method of suicide on overall regional rates. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 61: 248-253.
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Liu, Ka Y, Chen EYH, Chan, CLW, Lee TS, Law YW, Yeates C, Yip PSF (2006). Socio-economic and psychological correlates of suicidality among Hong Kong working-age adults: results from a population-based survey. Psychological Medicine 36: 1759-68.
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Yip PSF, Liu Ka Y. (2006). The Ecological fallacy of gender ratio of suicide in China. British Journal of Psychiatry 189: 465-6.
