It's the week to hear about assessment of animal wellbeing! On Wednesday 28 March we Yvonne Baur giving a presentation on her proposed PhD research: Assessing the relationship of positive emotion and welfare in captive gorillas 5.30pm in the Psychology Common Room (3A94, Cottrell Building) as usual. On Thursday 29th March we have Dr Emily Bethell from Liverpool John Moores University Cognitive bias in rhesus macaques: a role for cognitive theories of emotion in improving our understanding of animal psychological wellbeing Abstract here: http://www.psychology.stir.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/35904/Poster-Em... 4pm in the Psychology Common Room (3A94, Cottrell Building) as usual. We plan to go out for dinner after Emily's talk - please let me know if you'd like to join us so I can book a table. Hope to see you on Wednesday. Hannah If you wish to subscribe (or unsubscribe) to the BERG mailing list please follow instructions here: http://lists.stir.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/berg Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith Professor, Psychology School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling FK9 4LA e-mail: h.m.buchanan-smith@stir.ac.uk<mailto:h.m.buchanan-smith@stir.ac.uk> phone: 01786 467674 fax: 01786 467641 ________________________________ The Sunday Times Scottish University of the Year 2009/2010 The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159. -- The Sunday Times Scottish University of the Year 2009/2010 The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.