Dear Bergers,

I'm delighted to announce that today's Berg seminar will be by Carri Westgarth, from the University of Liverpool. The seminar will be online at 4pm TODAY (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
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University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, SCOTLAND
Tel: +44(0)1786 467 651
Email: sharon.kessler@stir.ac.uk

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