Lisa Schelbe is the associate dean of academic affairs and an associate professor at Florida State University College of Social Work and a faculty affiliate at the Florida Institute for Child Welfare. She is the Director of the Child Well-Being Research Network. Additionally, she serves as co-Editor-in-Chief of the Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal.

Her primary research interest focuses broadly on child welfare, child maltreatment prevention, and child well-being and she published a book called Some Type of Way: Aging out of Foster Care in 2023.