27 Feb
2023
27 Feb
'23
10:56 a.m.
Dear Bergers!
I'm delighted to announce this weeks BERG seminar will be given by Dr Liz Marks from
the University of Bath. The talk will be Wednesday, March 1st, at 4pm on Teams (link
below).
Title: Understanding and responding to eco-distress and climate anxiety
The climate and ecological emergencies (CEE) pose an existential threat to humanity.
Millions are already exposed to direct impacts, such as extreme weather events, with clear
psychological effects (e.g. loss, trauma). Less direct exposure (growing awareness of the
CEE) is another significant psychological burden, particularly for younger people, here
termed 'eco-distress'. Eco-distress encompasses a range of experiences
(eco-anxiety, climate anxiety, ecological grief, Solastagia etc), and can range in
severity from a background daily stressor to a severe experience including significant
functional impairment. Eco-distress is not a mental health problem, and is in fact a
rational response to a realistic assessment of the predicament in which we all find
ourselves. This talk will discuss evidence for this phenomenon of eco-distress and how we
can start to define and understand it, and why it is important to delineate it from
existing models of clinical disorder. A new measure of Climate and Ecological Emotions and
Distress (the CEEDS) will be presented as a way of supporting this discussion. Attendees
will be invited to recognise that they may experience their own difficult thoughts and
feelings about the CEE and consider how this might affect their work as student or
researcher, and the importance of understanding climate justice and the inaction of those
in power as contributing to distress. If there is time, additional theoretical models will
be referred to including Cognitive Behavioural theory, ecological identity, moral
distress, active hope and meaning-focused coping as ways better understanding this
multifaceted experience.
This is the meeting link here and below is a schedule of the upcoming talks!
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:meeting_MjI5NTVhOGItNWM0OC00Nz…
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 Identification of
sickness: some past, current and future projects. Online
March 22
March 29 16:00 Maria Ojala Örebro University Climate change worry among
young people: Associations with mental wellbeing, climate change engagement and the role
of coping Online
April 5 16:00 Lucie Rigaill Université Rennes Multimodal sexual
communication in Afro-eurasian monkeys Online
April 12 16:00 Mike Radford University of Aberdeen TBA TBA
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
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Sharon
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Sharon Kessler (she/her), PhD
Lecturer in Psychology
Cottrell Building Room 3B92, Faculty of Natural Sciences
University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, SCOTLAND
Tel: +44(0)1786 467 651
Email: sharon.kessler(a)stir.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/1104622#research; https://www.sharonekessler.com/
Book review editor: International Journal of Primatology
Academic editor: PLOS ONE
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Subject: BERG Seminar - Carri Westgarth
Dear Bergers,
I'm delighted to announce that this week's Berg seminar will be by Carri
Westgarth, from the University of Liverpool. The seminar will be online at 4pm on
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.
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:meeting_MjI5NTVhOGItNWM0OC00Nz…
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
Cottrell Building Room 3B92, Faculty of Natural Sciences
University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, SCOTLAND
Tel: +44(0)1786 467 651
Email: sharon.kessler(a)stir.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/1104622#research; https://www.sharonekessler.com/
Book review editor: International Journal of Primatology
Academic editor: PLOS ONE
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