Lindsay G. Oades is an Australian wellbeing public policy strategist, author, researcher and academic.
[1] He is also a non-executive Director of Action for Happiness Australia,[2] and the Positive Education Schools Association.
[5] Oades was awarded the Australian Government citation in 2013 for outstanding contribution to student learning.
[1] Oades was born in Adelaide, South Australia where he spent his entire childhood years.
He then joined University of Wollongong in 1994, where he received a PhD in Clinical Psychology in 1999, supported by an NH&MRC Dora Lush priority scholarship.
[3] In 2021 Oades was a coordinating lead author on a chapter with UNESCO, exploring the relationship between education and human flourishing.
In 2022 Oades was appointed to Associate Dean International, Melbourne Graduate School of Education.
In 2003, he wrote "The experience of recovery from schizophrenia: towards an empirically validated stage model" with his doctoral student Andresen, which became one of his most cited papers.
[10] In the early 2010s, his research began focusing on education with a mission to have every student develop a personalised wellbeing plan.