Our 2021 annual conference ‘Animal-Assisted Interventions: Research meets Practice’ was held on Sunday 19 September 2021. Thank you to everyone who attended, and to our speakers and chair for making the event such a success.
If you missed the conference, the recording is now available to purchase at a cost of £60 to non-members and £30 to SCAS members. Email Alison German on info@scas.org.uk
Next year’s conference will be held on Sunday 18 September 2022 – Save the date!
The Centers for the Human-Animal Bond (CHAB) 2021 conference is being held virtually on 4th Nov. Registration is free, and provides opportunities for engaging with plenaries and panels on human-animal interaction. The programme includes a talk from Prof. Daniel Mills, from the University of Lincoln on ‘Pet Related Activities And Human Well-being: The Helpful And The Harmful’.
The Human Animal Bond Research Institute (HABRI) and Mars Petcare, with support from a broad Consortium of partners, today announced the publication of three papers in the open-access Journal Animals, part of a special issue focused on the role of companion animals during the COVID-19 pandemic, Social Isolation and the Roles That Animals Play in Supporting the Lives of Humans: Lessons for COVID19. The papers focus on the role of human-animal interaction (HAI) in helping to alleviate loneliness and social isolation during the pandemic.
New positions are available to study human-animal interaction (HAI) in the O’Haire lab at Purdue University, USA.
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The Penn Vet Working Dog Center at the University of Pennsylvania is seeking to hire a postdoctoral researcher to work on a project investigating the genetics of working dog behaviour.
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29 September 2021 is World Heart Day! The goal of #WorldHeartDay is to improve awareness, prevention, and management of cardiovascular disease globally.
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#InternationalCatDay a full 24 hours of recognition and veneration of one of humanity’s oldest and most beloved pets.
International Cat Care is the custodian of International Cat Day, an organisation that works internationally to improve cat welfare through collation and promotion of evidence-based research into feline physical and mental wellbeing.
Read more about cats, how to care for cats, and how you and your cat can celebrate #InternationalCatDay:
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Despite the conference being virtual this year, there is still the opportunity to submit a poster for presentation. The poster should address the theme of the conference and be submitted to info@scas.org.uk by 31 August 2021.
You should include the image of your poster and a short video clip (approximately 3 minutes, MP4 file) of you presenting it.
Continue readingThe next lecture in the HABRI Human-Animal Bond Lecture Series will stream live on July 22nd, 2021 at 4:00 PM EST (9 pm UK time)
We are looking for volunteers to join our 2021 public advisory panel. As a member of the SCAS advisory panel you would be invited to review some of this year’s applications for funding to help us to make decisions about the projects we fund.
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