The many faces of GESIS
Vita
Olivier Y. Rouquette holds a PhD with a double degree in Sport Sciences (Swansea University, UK) and Psychology (Université Grenoble Alpes, France). His early research in sport psychology focused on the role of interpersonal relationships in performance and well-being—an interest that continues to inform his efforts to foster more inclusive and supportive sport environments.
He previously worked as senior researcher at Swansea University and remains an honorary fellow, where he used population-level data to investigate social and environmental influences on mental health, especially among children and young people in education.
Olivier now leads the Data Acquisitions and Access team at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, where he focuses on improving the quality and representativeness of research data, and on enhancing data infrastructures to make high-quality, accessible data more readily available to the research community. His work supports inclusive, data-informed research on pressing societal challenges.
Publications
Journal article
Rouquette, Olivier Y., Sze Chim Lee, Marcos del Pozo Banos, David Osborn, Rob Stewart, and Ann John. 2025. "Association of Covid-19 vaccination uptake with recorded self-harm, neurodevelopmental disorders and mental health conditions during the Covid-19 pandemic: A nationwide e-cohort study in Wales, UK." Journal of Infection and Public Health online first: . doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2025.103014.
Flower, Kirsten D., Camilla J. Knight, Olivier Y. Rouquette, Mark Waldron, Donald Barrell, Emily Mumford, and Thomas D. Love. 2025. "Barriers and Facilitators to Participation in Women and Girl’s rugby: A Mixed-Methods Study." Journal of Sports Sciences 43 (18): 1907-1923. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2025.2526290.
Rouquette, Olivier Y., Marcos del Pozo Banos, Sze Chim Lee, and Ann John. 2025. "Risk factors and trajectories for self-harm, neurodevelopmental disorders, and mental health conditions in pupils in alternative education provision in Wales: a population based electronic cohort study." BJPsych Open 11 (5): e205. doi: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2025.10827.
Diogu, Margaret Ifeoma, Sze Chim Lee, Marcos del Pozo Banos, Olivier Y. Rouquette, and Ann John. 2025. "Risk of suicide following school persistent absence and exclusion: an electronic cohort study in Wales, UK 2012–2019." Journal of Affective Disorders 385 (15 September 2025): 119394. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2025.119394.
del Pozo Banos, Marcos, Cathryn Rodway, Sze Chim Lee, Olivier Y. Rouquette, Saieb Ibrahim, Keith Lloyd, Louis Appleby, Navneet Kapur, and Ann John. 2024. "Contacts with primary and secondary healthcare before suicide by those under the care of mental health services: case–control, whole-population-based study using person-level linked routine data in Wales, UK during 2000–2015." British Journal of Psychiatry Open: . doi: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2024.23.
Rouquette, Olivier Y., Dana Dekel, Abdul-Moiz Siddiqi, Catherine Seymour, Lauren Weeks, and Ann John. 2024. "Mental health and its wider determinants in young people in the UK during 12 months of the COVID-19 pandemic: repeated cross-sectional representative survey." British Journal of Psychiatry Open 10 (6): . doi: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2024.726.
Warner, Nell, Jonathan Scourfield, Rebecca Canning-John, Olivier Y. Rouquette, Alex Lee, Rachael Vaughan, Karen Broadhurst, and Ann John. 2024. "Parental risk factors and children entering out-of-home care: The effects of cumulative risk and parent’s sex." Children and Youth Services Review 160: . doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107548.
Martin, Joanna, Kate Langley, Miriam Cooper, Olivier Y. Rouquette, Ann John, Kapil Sayal, Tasmin Ford, and Anita Thapar. 2024. "Sex differences in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder diagnosis and clinical care: a national study of population healthcare records in Wales." The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry: . doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13987.
John, Ann, Olivier Y. Rouquette, Sze Chim Lee, Jo Smith, and Marcos del Pozo Banos. 2024. "Trends in incidence of self-harm, neurodevelopmental and mental health conditions among university students compared with the general population: nationwide electronic data linkage study in Wales." British Journal of Psychiatry 225 (3): 389-400. doi: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.90.
Rouquette, Olivier Y., Roisin Cahalan, and Camilla J. Knight. 2024. "Understanding Parental Involvement in Irish Dance." Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology 47 (1): . doi: https://doi.org/10.1123/jsep.2024-0180.
Mars, Tove, Camilla J. Knight, Louise Davis, Markus B.T. Nystrom, and Olivier Y. Rouquette. 2024. "Understanding parental secure base support across youth sport contexts in Sweden." Psychology of Sport and Exercise 73: . doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2024.102658.
Lee, Sze Chim, Olivier Y. Rouquette, Keith Hawton, Louise Cleobury, Sarah Spencer, Keith Lloyd, David Gunnell, Jonathan Scourfield, and Ann John. 2023. "Understanding Suicide Clusters Through Exploring Self-Harm Behaviors : A 10-Year Data Linkage Cohort Follow-Up Study of a Suicide Cluster Using the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) Databank." Crisis 45 (3): 180-186. doi: https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000930.
Rouquette, Olivier Y., Camilla J. Knight, Victoria E. Lovett, and Jean-Philippe Heuzé. 2021. "Effect of parent responsiveness on young athletes’ self-perceptions and thriving: An exploratory study in a Belgian French-Community." Psychology of Sport and Exercise 52: . doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2020.101801.
Rouquette, Olivier Y., Camilla J. Knight, Victoria E. Lovett, and Jean-Philippe Heuzé. 2021. "The influence of perceived parental responsiveness on athletes’ goal accomplishment, trait cognitive sport anxiety, and thriving: A semi-longitudinal study." Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology 57: . doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2021.102044.
Rouquette, Olivier Y., Camilla J. Knight, Victoria E. Lovett, Donald Barrell, and Jean-Philippe Heuzé. 2021. "The positive association between perceived parental responsiveness and self-esteem, anxiety, and thriving among youth rugby players: A multigroup analysis." Journal of Sports Sciences 39 (13): . doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2021.1883311.
Rouquette, Olivier Y., Camilla J. Knight, Victoria E. Lovett, and Jean-Philippe Heuzé. 2020. "Parent-athlete relationships: A central but underexamined consideration within sport psychology." Sport & Exercise Psychology Review 16 (2): . doi: https://doi.org/10.53841/bpssepr.2020.16.2.5.
Chapter in an edited book
Knight, Camilla J., Olivier Y. Rouquette, Chris G. Harwood, and Nicholas L. Holt. 2023. "Parental Involvement in Youth Sport." In Social Psychology in Sport, edited by Louise Davis, Richard Keegan, and Sophia Jowett, 480. Human Kinetics.
Knight, Camilla J., Sam Elliott, Olivier Y. Rouquette, James Maurice, and Rachael A. Newport. 2022. "Parental Involvement in Organised Youth Sport." In Routledge Handbook of Coaching Children in Sport, edited by Martin Toms, and Ruth Jeanes, 522. Routledge. doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003199359.
Knight, Camilla J., Olivier Y. Rouquette, and Maita G. Furusa. 2020. "The role of parents in promoting the welfare of children involved in sport." In Routledge Handbook of Athlete Welfare, edited by Melanie Lang, 438. London: Routledge. doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429201745.