The questions guiding our work
What working conditions protect mental health in creative environments shaped by an increasingly always-on culture, now further accelerated by AI?
What protective measures can we embed in the way creative work is organised before distress emerges?
From Research to Professional Practice
The Lab generates evidence and sector-specific knowledge; the Music Business Psychology Academy turns it into tools and professional learning for creators, managers, teams and music organisations.
Resilience Room, founded and led by Fouzia Draoua, is Supported by the patronage of institutions committed to advancing sustainable creativity
Our scientific Committee
Fouzia Draoua
Psychologist PhD, Founder & Director of Resilience Room. People Development and the Music Business Academy at Universal Music Group Italy.
George Musgrave
Associate Professor at Goldsmiths, University of London, and member of the Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship.
Eleonora Bianchi
Senior executive at Universal Music Group -
Digital Services & Consumption Director.
Silvia Simbula
Associate Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Milano-Bicocca.
Sergio Agnoli
Associate Professor and Director of the Dynamics of Creativity (DoC) Lab at the University of Trieste.
Pioneering in Europe, From research to practice, where resilience is a condition — not a demand.
The Podcast–Research Connection
@Recording Studios Universal Music Italia - Milano
The Podcast >> At the Heart of Resilience Room: Where Research Meets Conversations
The key findings from Resilience Room Research 2026.
SERIE 2 - Inside Music Business
The second season of Resilience Room explores the music business as a high-intensity human system, where creativity needs not only talent and performance, but also sustainable conditions to keep existing.
SERIE 1 > Not Just Applause
The first season of the podcast is dedicated to the creative mind: what it experiences, what it withstands, what it consumes, and what it needs to protect. A journey through passion, pressure, identity, performance, and mental health — to look beyond the outcome and begin understanding the conditions that allow creativity to last.
