Dear Bergers! 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! 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 -------------------------- 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/<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlo… Book review editor: International Journal of Primatology Academic editor: PLOS ONE ________________________________ From: Sharon Kessler Sent: Monday, February 6, 2023 10:49 AM To: berg Mailing List &lt;berg(a)lists.stir.ac.uk&gt; Cc: Holly Dalby &lt;hod00039(a)students.stir.ac.uk&gt;uk>; Chih-Hsin Kuo &lt;chk00138(a)students.stir.ac.uk&gt;uk>; Priyanka Srinivas Iyer &lt;pri00016(a)students.stir.ac.uk&gt; 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 -------------------------- 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/<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlo… Book review editor: International Journal of Primatology Academic editor: PLOS ONE ________________________________ Scotland’s University for Sporting Excellence The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159 ________________________________ Scotland’s University for Sporting Excellence The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159