Rate My Professor Lisa Olive

Olive specializes in mental health and wellbeing for elite and professional sportspeople, the relationship between physical activity and mood and anxiety disorders among young people, and the connections between mental and physical health. She is a recipient of an NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellowship (Early Career Fellowship #1158487) and has contributed to major funding successes, such as a project within the $10.8 million Deakin health and medical research grants for optimising and embedding lifestyle therapy into routine childhood mental health services through her role at the Centre for Social and Early Emotional Development (SEED). Her influential publications include 'Why are girls less physically active than boys? Findings from the LOOK longitudinal study' (PLoS One, 2016), 'From "It Has Stopped Our Lives" to "Spending More Time Together Has Strengthened Bonds": The Varied Experiences of Australian Families During COVID-19' (Frontiers in Psychology, 2020), 'Child, parent, and family mental health and functioning in Australia during COVID-19: comparison to pre-pandemic data' (European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2023), and research on surf therapy's benefits for youth mental health. Olive's work has practical impact through collaborations with organisations like Ocean Mind and the Australian Sports Commission, advancing interventions in sports psychology, youth wellbeing, and mind-body health.