January 2015 - BERG - University of Stirling Mailing Lists

Spring BERG seminars
by Kristin Descovich 07 Oct '15

07 Oct '15

Dear BERGers, Happy new year and welcome back! It's time to start planning our BERG seminars for the Spring semester. Please add the following seminar dates to your diary at the usual time of 5:30pm in the Psychology common room. February: 4th and 11th March: 11th, 18th and 25th April: 1st, 8th and 15th We already have some great speakers lined up, but have plenty of space for more, so please consider giving a seminar this semester. Presenting at BERG is an excellent way to practice talks, hone presentation skills, get feedback on grant application ideas, or lead discussion of a research paper. You can sign up by following this link to the doodle poll. https://doodle.com/5kc3zpst4bs2aty2 Please add your name and select a date that is vacant, then email me your presentation title (kristin.descovich(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:kristin.descovich@stir.ac.uk>). You might also like to host a post-graduate student or colleague from a nearby University. We have some funds to support local travel and dinner for external speakers. Also note the upcoming divisional seminars which are likely to be of interest to BERG members. These are held on Thursdays at 4pm in the Psychology common room. January 22nd - Dr Susan Cheyne January 29th - Dr Ian Peers March 5th - Dr Jo Williams Our BERG meetings are only as good as we make them, so please encourage any students or colleagues interested in behaviour and evolution to come along to a meeting, or sign up to the BERG mailing list at http://lists.stir.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/berg. You can also use this link to unsubscribe. I look forward to seeing you all at BERG this semester! Cheers and regards, Kris Dr Kris Descovich Research Fellow in Animal Welfare Psychology, School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Scotland Tel: 01786 467643 E-mail: kristin.descovich(a)stir.ac.uk

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Professor Ian Peers - Thursday seminar
by Hannah Buchanan-Smith 26 Jan '15

26 Jan '15

Dear all Our seminar speaker this week, Ian Peers has been made an Honorary Professor in Psychology. Please can I encourage you to come to his talk (details below) – Ian provides important links with industry (impact), and is of interest to health psychologists as well an animal researchers, and those interested in stats and experimental design. He is also offering stats advice. So come along and meet him! I shall be taking Ian out for dinner after his talk – please let me know by noon on Wednesday if you’d like to join us and I shall make a plan. Thanks, Hannah ________________________________ From: Roswitha Lucht Sent: 26 January 2015 12:09 To: Psychology Staff Subject: Psychology Research Seminar on 29th January , at 4pm in 3A94 - Professor Ian Peers Dear All Please may we invite you to come along to our next Research Seminar on Thursday, 29th January, at 4pm in the Psychology Common Room 3A94. Professor Ian Peers, from the University of Stirling and Global Head Statistics AstraZeneca, will be giving a talk with the title Animal Research in Biopharmaceutical R&D, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Impact of Good Statistical Practice. We would like to encourage academics, research staff and postgraduate students to please make every effort to attend these seminars. We look forward to seeing you and attach a poster with the event. Kind Regards Roswitha Roswitha Lucht Administrative Assistant Psychology School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling E: roswitha.lucht(a)stid.ac.uk<mailto:roswitha.lucht@stid.ac.uk> T: +44 (0) 1786 467640

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BERG + Susan Cheyne visit
by Kristin Descovich 20 Jan '15

20 Jan '15

Dear BERGers, Please see the attached current BERG schedule for the Spring. Note that on several weeks there is no BERG meeting because a BERG related speaker will be presenting the Psychology division seminar on the Thursday at 4pm. We still need a few more speakers! Please consider giving a seminar this semester. Presenting at BERG is an excellent way to practice talks, hone presentation skills, get feedback on grant application ideas, or lead discussion of a research paper. You might also like to host a post-graduate student or colleague from a nearby University. We have some funds to support local travel and dinner for external speakers. You can sign up by following this link to the doodle poll. https://doodle.com/5kc3zpst4bs2aty2 Please add your name and select a date that is vacant, then email your presentation title as soon as possible to me at kristin.descovich(a)stir.ac.uk. This Thursday at 4pm we are very lucky to have Dr Susan Cheyne from the University of Oxford and Outrop giving the Psychology seminar on "Primates, peat-lands, cats and conservation: Saving the Bornean peat swamp forests". Susan does amazing work in Indonesia with primates and a myriad of other species, so please do come along and listen. We will head afterwards to The Meadowpark for dinner. If you would like to join us, please email me by Wed night. Our BERG meetings are only as good as we make them, so encourage any students or colleagues interested in behaviour and evolution to come along to a meeting, or sign up to the BERG mailing list at http://lists.stir.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/berg. You can also use this link to unsubscribe. I look forward to seeing you all at BERG on the 4th of February! Cheers and regards, Kris

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