Ben Ashdown

Really pleased to be able to share this (open access) study which explored the behavioural indicators of resilience in youth football. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

With the UEFA Women’s EURO 2025 showdown between England and Spain on Sunday, @AshdownBen and @MusSarkar explore the role of resilience in the Lionesses’ route to the final. #WEURO2025 @NTUSciTech @NTUSportScience @ntu_research ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/…

Great to host a knowledge exchange event yesterday on "Developing Resilience in Football" at NTU with about 35 attendees working in football. We discussed research project findings and attendees reflected on how to integrate research on resilience into their own practice.

⛳ Take a swing at our collection of golfing books, from the history to the psychology of the game. 📚 Explore the collection: spr.ly/6018FS93j #Golf

Back in episode 297 of The Sport Psych Show I spoke with Ben Ashdown @AshdownBen and Dr Mustafa Sarkar @MusSarkar. We discuss behavioural indicators of resilience in athletes. Listen to the full episode here buff.ly/VYofbMk

How to engage young players in your sessions 🌟 Check out this webinar, covering how to recognise the holistic characteristics of young players, and more ⚽️

Best of luck to @NottmTrentUni’s Tom McGlinchey who is playing for @tamworthfc v Premier League @SpursOfficial in the FA Cup third round today! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 Tom is an Academic Associate in the university’s sport science department. @NTUSciTech @NTUSportScience

Really enjoyed contributing to this excellent event. Thanks for the invite @NFFCAcademy @alexbailey7 @JCaudwell

A closer look at our Staff Development Weekend!

Great to have 2 resilience papers published in the latest (2025) issue of Journal of Applied Sport Psychology: One on team resilience (led by @a_szabadics; tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…) and one on resilience behaviours (led by @AshdownBen; tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…). See links enclosed.

Enjoyable time presenting with @AshdownBen at the @NFFCAcademy Staff Development Weekend to kick off the new year. Some great engagement and discussions with academy staff about understanding and assessing resilience in practice.

Back from a great few days in Belfast for the @BPS_DSEP 2024 conference. Met some great people and learnt a lot. Grateful for the opportunity to present some of the research from my PhD 🤝

If you are at @BPS_DSEP (#DSEP2024), check out @AshdownBen's presentation between 10.30am-12.30pm today. The presentation is part of Ben's 2nd PhD study building on his 1st study published (open access) in JASP (tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…).

So here it is as promised with myself and @tom_mitch3 on Wednesday 11th December Pick from two times 12-1pm or 7-8pm bit.ly/40Ms7J0 @Carnegie_Sport @UCLan

A closer look at our Psych/Social mixed club and mixed age events during the half term with our friends from Notts County Academy 🔴🤝⚫️⚪️ … as well as our exciting Multi-Sport curriculum activities focusing on Padel over the last few weeks ⚽️🏓 @NFFCAcademy

We're looking for a Sport Psychologist with extensive experience to lead our sport psychology programme here at @SheffieldUnited! ⚔ If you have any questions about the role, please feel free to reach out. sufc.co.uk/club/vacancies…

@MalHowSH Thanks Sarah, what a group that was! Hope you are good 🙌

On this week's episode of The Sport Psych Show I am joined by Ben Ashdown @AshdownBen and Dr Mustafa Sarkar @MusSarkar to discuss a study Ben led which explores the behavioural indicators of resilience. Listen here buff.ly/3Mu5DnW

How many post game interviews mention the word #resilience ?Almost all of them are spoken by the winning side. Let’s get dialed into resilient BEHAVIORS and how to recognize and coach them. Great stuff here @AshdownBen @MusSarkar

Dr Mustafa Sarkar @MusSarkar speaks to me about the behavioural indicators of resilience on this week's episode of The Sport Psych Show. Mustafa is joined by Ben Ashdown @AshdownBen to discuss a study which explores these indicators. Take a listen here apple.co/3XtvjHi

New episode of The Sport Psych Show! On this week's episode "Exploring the Behavioural Indicators of Resilience" I am joined by Ben Ashdown @AshdownBen and Dr Mustafa Sarkar @MusSarkar Take a listen to this fantastic episode here buff.ly/3Mu5DnW

@AbrahamsGolf @coachbazza Really interesting podcast and research 👏

New episode of The Sport Psych Show! This week I'm joined by UEFA football coach and lecturer, James Barraclough @coachbazza. We speak about how to identify and develop psychosocial skills and characteristics in young athletes. Take a listen here buff.ly/4cFMiKX