Just a quick reminder about the BERG seminar today - Dr Liz Marks from the University of Bath. The talk will be 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!
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March 1 |
16:00 |
Elizabeth Marks |
University of Bath |
Understanding and responding to eco-distress and climate anxiety |
Online |
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March 8 |
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Reading Week |
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March 15 |
16:00 |
Arnaud Tognetti |
Karolinska Institutet |
Identification of sickness: some past, current and future projects. |
Online |
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March 22 |
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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 |
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April 5 |
16:00 |
Lucie Rigaill |
Université Rennes |
Multimodal sexual communication in Afro-eurasian monkeys |
Online |
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April 12 |
16:00 |
Mike Radford |
University of Aberdeen |
TBA |
TBA |
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April 19th |
16:00 |
Alexandra Horowitz |
Barnard College |
Who is the dog? |
Online |
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April 26th |
16:00 |
Pawel Fedurek |
University of Stirling |
Sound Recording Workshop |
In - person: C3A94 |
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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@stir.ac.uk
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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.
Upcoming BERG seminars:
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Date |
Time |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
Location |
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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 |
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Feb 15 |
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Feb 22 |
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March 1 |
16:00 |
Elizabeth Marks |
University of Bath |
Understanding and responding to eco-distress and climate anxiety |
Online |
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March 8 |
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|
Reading Week |
|
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March 15 |
16:00 |
Arnaud Tognetti |
Karolinska Institutet |
TBA |
Online |
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March 22 |
16:00 |
Mike Radford |
University of Aberdeen |
TBA |
TBA |
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March 29 |
16:00 |
Maria Ojala |
Örebro University |
TBA |
Online |
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April 5 |
16:00 |
Lucie Rigaill |
Université Rennes |
Multimodal sexual communication in Afro-eurasian monkeys |
Online |
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April 12 |
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OPEN |
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April 19th |
16:00 |
Alexandra Horowitz |
Barnard College |
Who is the dog? |
Online |
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April 26th |
16:00 |
Pawel Fedurek |
University of Stirling |
Sound Recording Workshop |
In - person: C3A94 |
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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@stir.ac.uk
Book review editor: International Journal of Primatology
Academic editor: PLOS ONE
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