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Dianne Vella-Brodrick

Professor and Gerry Higgins Chair in Positive Psychology, Centre for Wellbeing Science, The University of Melbourne

Professor Dianne Vella-Brodrick (PhD) holds the Gerry Higgins Chair in Positive Psychology and is Director and Head of Research at the Centre for Wellbeing Science 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 previously served as Treasurer and Secretary of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) and is currently on the IPPA Council of Advisors and was made an IPPA Fellow 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 over $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. Her work draws on innovative mixed method designs which utilise the latest technology, experience sampling method and biological indices of well-being. Dianne served as the Ethics Chair at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education from (2014 - Feb 2020). She has been involved in the development of numerous well-being measures and programs including the Wuzzup and MoodPrism apps, the Wellbeing Profiler and more recently she founded the Bio-Dash wellbeing and optimal performance program (bio-dash.com).

Experience

  • 2019–present
    Chair professor, University of Melbourne

Education

  • 2000 
    Monash University, PhD