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
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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
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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>
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The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159
Please see below for details of a funded PhD opportunity which may be of interest to some in this group.
Christine.
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Sent: 02 December 2025 16:40
To: Christine Anna Caldwell <c.a.caldwell(a)stir.ac.uk>
Subject: Fully-funded PhD opportunity
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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
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Nottingham Trent University
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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
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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).
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The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159
