Michael Trotter

Michael Trotter is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Health and Welfare, Halmstad University, Sweden. His current role centres on research and teaching at the intersection of health, psychology, and competitive gaming.

Research interests span three core areas:

• Performance & Health in Esports: investigating caffeine, micro-breaks, and reaction-time optimisation among esports players and coaches;
• Psychological Determinants of Success: examining stress, coping, self-regulation, and mental toughness across amateur to elite levels;
• Development & Education: exploring youth development through school esports programmes and evidence-based coaching frameworks.

Across more than twenty-five peer-reviewed publications (2020-2025), Trotter’s work reveals a clear trajectory: early focus on defining the esports athlete and mapping stress-coping patterns evolved into intervention studies on caffeine and micro-breaks, followed by applied coaching frameworks and mental-health promotion initiatives.

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