Are you passionate about supporting new parents and their pets? 🐾 We’re hosting an online stakeholder workshop on pets and perinatal mental health to share findings and gather ideas on how best to translate them into meaningful impact. More info and sign-up link here: tinyurl.com/pramspets

📣 We are still accepting applications for our brand new shiny MSc in Data Science (Human Behaviour), designed to upskill psych/social sci grads for careers working with data 🎓@yorkpsychology.bsky.social www.york.ac.uk/study/postgr... #datascience #rstats #statistics

MSc Data Science (Human Behaviour)

Prepare for a career in data science with this interdisciplinary course investigating human behavioural data.

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Our new study looking for participants investigating the human-pet bond for those with eating difficulties edinburgh.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

✨️ #pint25 is starting today!✨ 3 nights of fun science talks for everyone in pubs, come meet & chat with scientists! 👀🎟 Discover the programme and grab your tickets here pintofscience.co.uk 🗓️ 19-21 May 2025 📍45 locations across the UK 👓 400 events

Back from maternity leave today... what did I miss? 😅😅

Editorial: Evidencing the impact of human-animal interaction for those living with mental health problems (with Emily Shoesmith & Elena Ratschen) www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Frontiers | Editorial: Evidencing the impact of human-animal interaction for those living with mental health problems

remains scarce, with existing studies often limited by methodological flaws (22)(23)(24)(25)(26). Key issues include small sample sizes and consequently a la...

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Our new paper, “He’s Practising His Learned Social Skills on the Cat’: A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Parental Perspectives of the Role of Pets in Autistic Children’s Social Skills and Wellbeing" has now been published! www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15...

Back home after a lovely time in the Cairngorms 🤩 #Scotland

We are recruiting for a study about pets during the #perinatal period. If you live in the U.K. and have #pets (#cats or #dogs), are currently #pregnant or have a baby under 1, please consider signing up! 🤰🏼🐕👶🏼 tinyurl.com/petsperinatal #mothers #baby #postpartum #pregnancy #wellbeing #mentalhealth

🙌Very excited to share our new support network for mental health and/or addiction research academics with lived experience. We have called it LENS (Lived Experience Network for Scholars). Read more and sign up on Eventbrite for our 1st online meeting in May: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lived-expe...

Lived Experience Network for Scholars (LENS) Online Meet-up

An support and information network for academic mental health and addiction researchers with lived experience

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We are recruiting participants for a study on pets and coping with neurological conditions. Please see advert and link below for more information 🐕🧠 edinburgh.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

#Anthrozoology #humananimalstudies, mark your calendars. #AIP2025 will be held (online, free) 12-13 Septr 2025. Senior academics are encouraged to join to support their Share with your peers and students.Call for presentations will open in April! anthrozoologyconference.com

Hear more about our maternal mental health and pets project on the HAI podcast (thanks to Kathryn Cyr, previous MSc student and researcher on the project 😊). m.soundcloud.com/lori-kogan/k...

Kathryn Cyr

Play Kathryn Cyr by Lori on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.

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🌟 ECRs – Funding Alert! 🌟 Our UKRI MHP ECR Fellowship Awards open 1st March 2025! 💡 <£300K, 1–3 years 🤝 Collaborate with MHP Hubs 📚 Access training, resources & PPIE support 📅 Apply by 30th April 2025 🔗 Learn more: https://buff.ly/42Qn3UZ #MentalHealth #ECR #Fellowship

We are looking for couple more people for our advisory group. Please share or consider coming along if you have pets and are pregnant or postpartum #pets #parenting #pregnancy #postpartum

We are recruiting for a study about pets during the #perinatal period. If you live in the U.K. and have #pets (#cats or #dogs), are currently #pregnant or have a baby under 1, please consider signing up! 🤰🏼🐕👶🏼 tinyurl.com/petsperinatal #mothers #baby #postpartum #pregnancy #wellbeing #mentalhealth

New paper out! 🤰🏼🐕👶🏼 ‘Can’t imagine having one without the other now”: Maternal perceptions of pets and attachment relationships in the perinatal period’ www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/...

“Can’t imagine having one without the other now”: Maternal perceptions of pets and attachment relationships in the perinatal period | Human-Animal Interactions

Abstract Maternal mental wellbeing and secure attachment relationships are critical for an infant’s socioemotional and psychological development, with research focusing on environmental influences on ...

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Our new paper led by PhD student Suzanne Lawrie, ‘Harnessing RSPCA Stakeholder Expertise to Co-Produce a Complex Intervention Addressing Childhood and Adolescent Animal Harm’ www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/15...

Harnessing RSPCA Stakeholder Expertise to Co-Produce a Complex Intervention Addressing Childhood and Adolescent Animal Harm

Childhood and Adolescent Animal Harm (CAAH) is influenced by biological, psychological and socio-environmental risk factors. Interventions to prevent animal harm among children and young people are es...

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We are looking for couple more people for our advisory group. Please share or consider coming along if you have pets and are pregnant or postpartum #pets #parenting #pregnancy #postpartum

Study looking for those who have pets and are currently pregnant or have had a baby in the past 12 months for study on pets and perinatal wellbeing 🤰👶🐕🐈 edinburgh.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Just over a week left to submit to the 2025 PHAIR animal advocacy conference. Come hang out with us in Edinburgh! @phair-society.bsky.social Phair2025.co.uk

PHAIR@phair-society.bsky.social · 2y ago

Reminder! 🚨 You have until 30th January to submit a proposal for the PHAIR Animal Advocacy Conference 🗓️ For further information and to submit a proposal: phair2025.co.uk