[BERG] BERG Seminar - Liz Marks (Climate Anxiety)

[Sharon Kessler]

Dear Bergers!

I'm delighted to announce this weeks BERG seminar will be given by Dr Liz Marks from the University of Bath. The talk will be Wednesday, March 1st, at 4pm on Teams (link below).

Title: Understanding and responding to eco-distress and climate anxiety

The climate and ecological emergencies (CEE) pose an existential threat to humanity. Millions are already exposed to direct impacts, such as extreme weather events, with clear psychological effects (e.g. loss, trauma). Less direct exposure (growing awareness of the CEE) is another significant psychological burden, particularly for younger people, here termed 'eco-distress'. Eco-distress encompasses a range of experiences (eco-anxiety, climate anxiety, ecological grief, Solastagia etc), and can range in severity from a background daily stressor to a severe experience including significant functional impairment. Eco-distress is not a mental health problem, and is in fact a rational response to a realistic assessment of the predicament in which we all find ourselves. This talk will discuss evidence for this phenomenon of eco-distress and how we can start to define and understand it, and why it is important to delineate it from existing models of clinical disorder. A new measure of Climate and Ecological Emotions and Distress (the CEEDS) will be presented as a way of supporting this discussion. Attendees will be invited to recognise that they may experience their own difficult thoughts and feelings about the CEE and consider how this might affect their work as student or researcher, and the importance of understanding climate justice and the inaction of those in power as contributing to distress. If there is time, additional theoretical models will be referred to including Cognitive Behavioural theory, ecological identity, moral distress, active hope and meaning-focused coping as ways better understanding this multifaceted experience.

This is the meeting link here and below is a schedule of the upcoming talks!

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 March 1        16:00   Elizabeth Marks University of Bath      Understanding and responding to eco-distress and climate anxiety        Online
 March 8                                Reading Week
 March 15       16:00   Arnaud Tognetti Karolinska Institutet    Identification of sickness: some past, current and future projects.    Online
 March 22
 March 29       16:00   Maria Ojala     Örebro University       Climate change worry among young people: Associations with mental wellbeing, climate change engagement and the role of coping   Online
 April 5        16:00   Lucie Rigaill   Université Rennes       Multimodal sexual communication in Afro-eurasian monkeys        Online
 April 12       16:00   Mike Radford    University of Aberdeen  TBA     TBA
April 19th      16:00   Alexandra Horowitz      Barnard College Who is the dog? Online
April 26th      16:00   Pawel Fedurek   University of Stirling  Sound Recording Workshop        In - person: C3A94
May 3rd 10:00 AM        Cécile Sarabian University of Hong Kong Risk perception and potential applications in wildlife management and conservation      Online


Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Sharon

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Sharon Kessler (she/her), PhD
Lecturer in Psychology
Cottrell Building Room 3B92, Faculty of Natural Sciences
University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, SCOTLAND
Tel: +44(0)1786 467 651
Email: sharon.kessler at stir.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/1104622#research; https://www.sharonekessler.com/

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Subject: BERG Seminar - Carri Westgarth

Dear Bergers,

I'm delighted to announce that this week's Berg seminar will be by Carri Westgarth, from the University of Liverpool. The seminar will be online at 4pm on Wednesday Feb 8th at this link. Below is her abstract and the list of other upcoming talks:

You see a dog - you read their story - you fall in love” Importing rescue dogs from overseas
In this presentation Carri will present her research studies on the importation of overseas rescue dogs. Despite this being both a very popular and contentious practice there was virtually no research evidence in this area until very recently. Findings will be presented regarding both positive and negative welfare implications for both the dogs and the owners. Finally, challenges and implications for practice and policy in this area are discussed.

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Upcoming BERG seminars:
Date    Time    Speaker Affiliation     Title   Location
 Feb 8  16:00   Carrie Westgarth        University of Liverpool “You see a dog - you read their story - you fall in love”  Importing rescue dogs from overseas  Online
 Feb 15
 Feb 22
 March 1        16:00   Elizabeth Marks University of Bath      Understanding and responding to eco-distress and climate anxiety        Online
 March 8                                Reading Week
 March 15       16:00   Arnaud Tognetti Karolinska Institutet   TBA     Online
 March 22       16:00   Mike Radford    University of Aberdeen  TBA     TBA
 March 29       16:00   Maria Ojala     Örebro University       TBA     Online
 April 5        16:00   Lucie Rigaill   Université Rennes       Multimodal sexual communication in Afro-eurasian monkeys        Online
 April 12                               OPEN
April 19th      16:00   Alexandra Horowitz      Barnard College Who is the dog? Online
April 26th      16:00   Pawel Fedurek   University of Stirling  Sound Recording Workshop        In - person: C3A94
May 3rd 10:00 AM        Cécile Sarabian University of Hong Kong Risk perception and potential applications in wildlife management and conservation      Online


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Sharon Kessler (she/her), PhD
Lecturer in Psychology
Cottrell Building Room 3B92, Faculty of Natural Sciences
University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, SCOTLAND
Tel: +44(0)1786 467 651
Email: sharon.kessler at stir.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/1104622#research; https://www.sharonekessler.com/

Book review editor: International Journal of Primatology
Academic editor: PLOS ONE
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