Biography
Dr Yeju Lin is a postdoctoral researcher at South China Normal University (SCNU), China. She completed her PhD in Psychology at King’s College London (2020–2024), where she was a China Scholarship Council (CSC) funded student within the ReSpect Lab. Her PhD supervision team included Professor Francesca Happé, Professor Colette Hirsch and Dr Silia Vitoratou.
Yeju’s PhD research focused on conceptualising individual differences in Intolerance of Uncertainty (IU), developing and adapting IU performance tasks, and exploring IU’s relationships with autistic traits, other individual differences (e.g., Alexithymia), co-occurring mental health conditions (e.g., anxiety), and quality of life among autistic adults.
Her current research interests build on this foundation, encompassing autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders (across adults and children), co-occurring mental health conditions (e.g., anxiety), intolerance of uncertainty, psychological assessment (including subjective questionnaires and objective tasks), and special education.
Prior to her PhD, Yeju held a three-year role supporting students with special educational needs and disabilities, followed by two years as a full-time primary school teacher in China. She earned her BSc (Hons) in Special Education from SCNU (2013–2017)—during which she participated in a student exchange programme at the Education University of Hong Kong—and her MSc in Genes, Environment and Development in Psychology and Psychiatry from the Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King's (2019–2020).