Lindsay Oades

Lindsay G. Oades is an Australian wellbeing public policy strategist, author, researcher and academic. He is the Director of the Centre for Wellbeing Science and a professor at the University of Melbourne. He is also a non-executive Director of Action for Happiness Australia, and the Positive Education Schools Association. He is a former co-editor of the International Journal of Wellbeing.

Oades' major contribution has been in well-being and mental health recovery. He developed a mental health recovery model – the Collaborative Recovery Model – which is a positive psychology coaching model, used to assist people with mental illness. He is the author of five books, and over 150 journal articles and book chapters.

Oades was awarded the Australian Government citation in 2013 for outstanding contribution to student learning. Oades currently lives in Melbourne, Australia, with his wife and two sons. He held this position until 2015, when he left University of Wollongong to join University of Melbourne as an Associate Professor of Positive Psychology. He was appointed as the Director of Centre for Positive Psychology, Melbourne Graduate School of Education at University of Melbourne in 2016. During this time he was also Director of the Masters of Applied Positive Psychology program. He was promoted to full professor in 2018. It was translated into eight languages, led to a new model in Positive Psychology – the Stages of Recovery model; and then converted into a book length contribution. His work in this area on Psychological Recovery and the Collaborative Recovery Model has had international and domestic reach and application. The Collaborative Recovery Model, which is a positive psychology coaching model for people with mental illness, is used in Canada and Australia. This work included several Australian Research Council grants and one NH&MRC grant.

Another line of research Oades has focused on since early 2000s is wellbeing. His research is based on the idea that wellbeing is not just the absence of illness and that everyone can improve their wellbeing with personalized plans. Much of his work is focused on increasing literacy of well-being. In the early 2010s, his research began focusing on education with a mission to have every student develop a personalised wellbeing plan. He has developed a process called the "My Wellbeing Planner", which can help an individual in creating a personalized wellbeing plan.

In 2018, he presented Thriveability Theory, which is a new theory combining psychological approaches to wellbeing and economic approaches to capability.

In 2019, he published a research methods text “Coaching and mentoring research: A practical guide” based on his experience of supervising 17 doctoral students to completion.

In 2021 he co-published a book "Building better schools with evidence-based policy: Adaptable policy for teachers and school leaders".

Awards and honors 2004 – Gold Achievement Award, The Mental Health Services Conference 2006 – Special Judges Award. The Mental Health Services Conference 2008 – University of Wollongong Vice Chancellors’ Award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning 2009 – Gold Achievement Award, The Mental Health Services Conference 2012 – Gold Achievement Award, The Mental Health Services Conference 2013 – Australian Government OLT Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning 2015 – University of Wollongong Vice Chancellors Award for Excellence in Research Commercialisation 2020 – Melbourne Graduate School of Education Teaching Excellence Award issued by The University of Melbourne · Jul 2020 2021 – MGSE Award for Outstanding Graduate Research Supervision issued by The University of Melbourne · November 2021 2021 – Finalist Alumni Award Research and Scholarship issued by University of Wollongong · November 2021

Publications Books Oades, L. G., Andresen, R., Crowe, T. P., Malins, G. L., Marshall, S., & Turner, A. (2008). A handbook to flourish. A recovery-based self-development program. Illawarra Institute for Mental Health, University of Wollongong Andresen, R., Oades, L. G., & Caputi, P. (2011). Psychological recovery: Beyond mental illness. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons. Slade, M., Oades, L. G., & Jarden, A. (Eds.) (2017). Wellbeing, recovery and mental health. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Oades, L. G., Steger, M. F., Delle-Fave, A., & Passmore, J. (Eds.) (2017). The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Positivity and Strengths-Based Approaches at Work. London: Wiley-Blackwell Oades, L.G., Siokou, C, & Slemp, G. (2019). Coaching and Mentoring: A Practical Guide, New York: SAGE. Allen, K.-A., Reupert, A., & Oades, L. (Eds.). (2021). Building Better Schools with Evidence-based Policy: Adaptable Policy for Teachers and School Leaders (1st ed.). Routledge.

Selected papers Andresen, R., Oades, L.G., & Caputi, P. (2003). The experience of recovery from schizophrenia: towards an empirically validated stage model. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 37(5), 586–594. Oades, L.G., Deane, F., Crowe, T., Lambert, G. W., Kavanagh, D., & Lloyd, C. (2005). Collaborative recovery: an integrative model for working with individuals who experience chronic and recurring mental illness. Australasian Psychiatry, 13(3), 279–284. Green, L. S., Oades, L. G., & Grant, A. M. (2006). Cognitive-behavioural, solution-focused life coaching: Enhancing goal striving, well-being, and hope. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 1(3), 142–149. Andresen, R., Caputi, P., & Oades, L.G. (2006). Stages of recovery instrument: development of a measure of recovery from serious mental illness. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 40(11–12), 972–980. McNaught, M., Caputi, P., Oades, L. G., & Deane, F. P. (2007). Testing the validity of the Recovery Assessment Scale using an Australian sample. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 41(5), 450–457. Slade, M., Amering, M., & Oades, L.G. (2008). Recovery: an international perspective. Epidemiologia e psichiatria sociale, 17(02), 128–137. Brymer, E., & Oades, L. G. (2008). Extreme sports: A positive transformation in courage and humility. Journal of Humanistic Psychology. 49, 1, 114–126. Andresen, R., Caputi, P., & Oades, L. G. (2010). Do clinical outcome measures assess consumer-defined recovery?. Psychiatry research, 177(3), 309–317. Vella, S., Oades, L.G., & Crowe, T. (2011). The role of the coach in facilitating positive youth development: Moving from theory to practice. Journal of applied sport psychology, 23(1), 33–48. Vella, S. A., Oades, L. G. & Crowe, T. P. (2013). The relationship between coach leadership, the coach–athlete relationship, team success, and the positive developmental experiences of adolescent soccer players. Physical education and sport pedagogy, 18(5), 549–561.