BERG December 2025

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by Pawel Fedurek

Dear All, There is no meeting this week. We are meeting again next year on the 28th of January - Dr Roxanne Hawkins will be giving a seminar about pets and perinatal wellbeing. Have a great break everyone! Spring semester BERG seminars: Date Speaker Affiliation Talk title Chair 28-Jan-26 Roxanne Hawkins University of Edinburgh TBC pets and perinatal wellbeing Clare 04-Feb-26 Berta Roura-Torres Georg-August University Göttingen Early life adversity predicts physical development in young mandrills Pawel 11-Feb-26 Dylan Feldmeier University of Oxford TBC human-animal conflict Pawel 18-Feb-26 TBC 25-Feb-26 Floriane Fournier Université Jean Monnet "tbc: The role of nonlinear phenomena in vocal emotional expression and perception in bonobos " Pawel 04-Mar-26 MID SEMESTER BREAK 11-Mar-26 IMPACT meeting Pawel Best wishes, Pawel ------------------------------- Dr Pawel Fedurek (he/his) Lecturer in Psychology Behaviour and Evolution Research Group (BERG) Division of Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Scotland, UK @pawel-fedurek<https://bsky.app/profile/pawel-fedurek.bsky.social> @berg-stirling<https://bsky.app/profile/berg-stirling.bsky.social> Staff page<https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/1080868> | BERG page<https://www.stir.ac.uk/about/faculties/natural-sciences/our-research/resear…> I aim to reply within 3 working days (my working days are between Monday and Friday). ________________________________ Scotland's University for Sporting Excellence The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159

2 months, 2 weeks

BERG/SHAIR talk this week: Dr Faye Whiley on human-lynx coexistence

by Clare Andrews

Dear BERGers and SHAIRers, Excited to have Dr Faye Whiley from the The Missing Lynx Project and University of Kent coming (virtually) to speak to us this week: Dr Faye Whiley The Missing Lynx Project: Exploring the return of lynx The conservation social science of human-carnivore coexistence. Wednesday 10 Dec 4-5pm for the Psychology Common Room live ‘watch party’ in Cottrell 3A94 or join on Teams: tinyurl.com/SHAIRlynx<http://tinyurl.com/SHAIRlynx> [cid:d646117c-17cc-4900-ab52-694ad122004e] ________________________________ Scotland’s University for Sporting Excellence The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159

2 months, 3 weeks

FW: Fully-funded PhD opportunity

by Christine Anna Caldwell

Please see below for details of a funded PhD opportunity which may be of interest to some in this group. Christine. From: Kavanagh, Eithne <eithne.kavanagh(a)ntu.ac.uk> Sent: 02 December 2025 16:40 To: Christine Anna Caldwell <c.a.caldwell(a)stir.ac.uk> Subject: Fully-funded PhD opportunity You don't often get email from eithne.kavanagh(a)ntu.ac.uk<mailto:eithne.kavanagh@ntu.ac.uk>. Learn why this is important<https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification> CAUTION: This email originated from outside University of Stirling. Do not follow links or open attachments if you doubt the authenticity of the sender or the content. ________________________________ Hi Christine, I hope you're well! I was wondering if you might be kind enough to circulate the following advertisement for a fully-funded PhD studentship to any relevant students in your Behaviour and Evolution Research group, or anyone who might be interested please? A fully-funded PhD opportunity is available at the Psychology department at Nottingham Trent University, supervised by Dr. Eithne Kavanagh, Professor Bridget Waller and Dr. Ella McLoughlin (link here<https://www.ntu.ac.uk/study-and-courses/postgraduate/phd/phd-opportunities/…>; deadline 13th February). We are seeking a student with a keen interest in the evolution of social behaviour. The project will focus on social hierarchies and their associated nonverbal behaviour and health outcomes. Informal enquiries are encouraged and can be directed to eithne.kavanagh(a)ntu.ac.uk<mailto:eithne.kavanagh@ntu.ac.uk>. <Link again: https://www.ntu.ac.uk/study-and-courses/postgraduate/phd/phd-opportunities/…> If you could pass this on to anyone interested it would be much appreciated! Many thanks, Eithne Dr. Eithne Kavanagh // staff profile<https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/social-sciences/eithne-kavanagh> // ERC FACEDIFF<https://www.facediff.co.uk/> Senior Lecturer and Research fellow E: eithne.kavanagh(a)ntu.ac.uk<mailto:eithne.kavanagh@ntu.ac.uk> // Twitter: @eithnekavanagh // Bluesky: @eithnekavanagh.bsky.social Evolution and Social Interaction Research Group<https://www.ntu.ac.uk/research/groups-and-centres/groups/evolution-and-soci…> Nottingham Trent University [cid:590c75cf-2e24-4d0e-81bc-4d3d84dce934] [cid:f172f5db-47a2-4626-90f4-093d27ef0308] DISCLAIMER: This email is intended solely for the addressee. It may contain private and confidential information. If you are not the intended addressee, please take no action based on it nor show a copy to anyone. In this case, please reply to this email to highlight the error. Opinions and information in this email that do not relate to the official business of Nottingham Trent University shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by the University. Nottingham Trent University has taken steps to ensure that this email and any attachments are virus-free, but we do advise that the recipient should check that the email and its attachments are actually virus free. This is in keeping with good computing practice. ________________________________ Scotland's University for Sporting Excellence The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159

3 months

No BERG seminar this week

by Pawel Fedurek

Dear All, Apologies but we had to reschedule Floriane's seminar to the 25th of February 2026. The next BERG seminar is next week and will be led by Faye Whiley from the Missing Lynx Project. Best wishes, Pawel ------------------------------- Dr Pawel Fedurek (he/his) Lecturer in Psychology Behaviour and Evolution Research Group (BERG) Division of Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Scotland, UK @pawel-fedurek<https://bsky.app/profile/pawel-fedurek.bsky.social> @berg-stirling<https://bsky.app/profile/berg-stirling.bsky.social> Staff page<https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/1080868> | BERG page<https://www.stir.ac.uk/about/faculties/natural-sciences/our-research/resear…> I aim to reply within 3 working days (my working days are between Monday and Friday). ________________________________ Scotland's University for Sporting Excellence The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159

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