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
Dear BERGers
On Wednesday 15th April, we have our last BERG seminar for the semester. Lesley Craig will be presenting on "Can enhancing connection to individual chimpanzees promote conservation strategy?"
She will be discussing the importance of how a more personalised experience with a chimpanzee can enhance zoo visitor attitudes to conservation, compared with general educative information - She'll present data collected from Edinburgh Zoo and Blair Drummond.
As usual, we will meet in room 3A94 (Psychology common room) at 5:30pm, and will have drinks and nibbles available.
I hope to see you all on Wednesday night!
Hannah
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Dear BERGers,
This Wednesday, 1st April, we have Joshua Lemin presenting on: "Relationship quality and relationship asymmetry among captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)".
He will be discussing measures of relationship quality among captive chimpanzees and how he is using a Social Network Analysis approach to further quantify those measures. He will also discuss emotional contagion within the chimpanzee group and its influence on the way social partners interact.
As usual, we will meet in room 3A94 (Psychology common room) at 5:30pm, with drinks and nibbles.
For details on upcoming BERG seminars please visit: www.stir.ac.uk/natural-sciences/research/seminars/psychology/berg-seminars<http://www.stir.ac.uk/natural-sciences/research/seminars/psychology/berg-se…>.
I hope to see you all on Wednesday night!
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<mailto:kristin.descovich@stir.ac.uk>
Behaviour and Evolution Research Group (BERG) seminar programme:
http://www.stir.ac.uk/natural-sciences/research/seminars/psychology/berg-se…
