Kairi Kolves

Professor Kairi Kõlves works at the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, and Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Suicide Prevention, School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University. She is also the Course Convenor of Master Courses of Suicidology. She has been working in suicide research and prevention since 1998. Prior to joining the AISRAP team in 2008, she worked at the Estonian-Swedish Mental Health and Suicidology Institute. Professor Kõlves has been involved in several Australian, Estonian and international projects and a member of different advisory committees. Her work has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers, numerous reports and book chapters on suicide research and prevention. She is the lead editor of 'Advancing Suicide Research' (Hogrefe, 2021), an edited book focussing on conducting high quality suicide research.