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Stress, Anxiety, Resilience, and Thriving (StART)

We explore stress, anxiety, resilience, thriving, and mental health in sport and other domains - like healthcare, the military, business and performing arts.

Our group

StART is part of the Department for Health.


About us

We’re a group of academics, practitioners, and students with expertise in stress, anxiety, resilience and thriving in high-pressure domains – like sport, business and medicine.

We discuss research, methods and applied practice on these topics, and publish work in leading peer-reviewed journals and present internationally.

Our work is funded by bodies such as the NIHR and ESRC. We collaborate with organisations including the English Institute of Sport, EY Lane4, and NHS hospitals.


1 West University of Bath Claverton Down Bath BA2 7AY United Kingdom

Contact us

If you have any questions about our research, please contact us.