Professor Dianne Vella-Brodrick (PhD) holds the Gerry Higgins Chair in Positive Psychology and is Deputy Director and Head of Research at the Centre for Positive Psychology at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne. She is the inaugural Director of the Master of Applied Positive Psychology program (2013 – 2015) and is a registered psychologist and a Member of the Australian Psychological Society and College of Health Psychologists.
She founded the Positive Psychology Network in Australia and has served as Treasurer and Secretary of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) and is currently on the IPPA Council of Advisors and was made a Fellow of the IPPA in 2019. Dianne has been an inaugural Editor in Chief of the Psychology of Well-Being: Theory, Research and Practice journal (2011-2016) and has Co-Directed the 2008, 2010 and 2014 Australian positive psychology and well-being conferences. She serves on numerous research advisory boards, regularly reviews scientific papers for leading journals and has received around $3 million funding for her research. Dianne’s research interests include the development and evaluation of well-being programs, particularly in the areas of positive education and performance optimisation. She specialises in innovative mixed method designs which utilise the latest technology, experience sampling method and biological indices of well-being. Her research has a special focus on young people and she has a keen interest in understanding the well-being effects of nature immersion. She also integrates ethical and professional practice issues in much of her work and served as the Ethics Chair at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education from (2014 - Feb 2020). Dianne has been involved in the development of numerous well-being measures and programs including the Wuzzup and MoodPrism apps, Bio-Dash biofeedback program and the Well-being Profiler.
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Examining the processes and effects of an exemplar school-based well-being approach on student competency, autonomy and relatedness.
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Effects of Positive Education during the critical post-school transition.
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Taking positive psychology into the classroom
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Teachers Matter: Student Outcomes Following a Strengths Intervention are Mediated by Teach..
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ENHANCING ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH THROUGH POSITIVE EDUCATION
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How technology is boosting our young people’s wellbeing
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Well-Being as a Cognitive Load Reducing Agent: A Review of the Literature
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Excellence in Research Supervision Award
Higher Education Advanced Leadership Program
Excellence in Research Partnership Award (MGSE)
“Extraordinary Professorship” in the Africa Unit for Transdisciplinary Health Research (AUTHeR)
Credentials
Positions
Positions
The Gerry Higgins Chair In Positive Psychology
Melbourne Graduate School Of Education
Member
International Association for Youth Mental Health
Endorsed In Health Psychology
AHPRA - Endorsed in Health Psychology
Positive Psychology Membership
International Positive Psychology Association
Registration As Psychologist
Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
National Psychology Membership
Australian Psychological Society
Education
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
Monash University
PhD
Monash University
Master of Arts
Monash University
Graduate Diploma Psychology
Chisholm Institute of TAFE
Bachelor of Arts
Chisholm Institute of TAFE