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Roxanne Hawkins

@rhawkins.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. Research human-animal relationships, nature, mental health, CYP development, maternal wellbeing, adversity, animal welfare. 🐾🌿🧠 www.facebook.com/scienceofpets

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Roxanne Hawkins @rhawkins.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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
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Emma James @emljames.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
📣 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
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MSc Data Science (Human Behaviour)
Prepare for a career in data science with this interdisciplinary course investigating human behavioural data.
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Roxanne Hawkins @rhawkins.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Our new study looking for participants investigating the human-pet bond for those with eating difficulties edinburgh.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Pint of Science UK @pintofscience.uk · 19/05/2025
✨️ #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
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Roxanne Hawkins @rhawkins.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Back from maternity leave today... what did I miss? 😅😅
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Roxanne Hawkins @rhawkins.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
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...
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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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Roxanne Hawkins @rhawkins.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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...
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Roxanne Hawkins @rhawkins.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Back home after a lovely time in the Cairngorms 🤩 #Scotland
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Roxanne Hawkins @rhawkins.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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
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Ruth Naughton-Doe @ruthndwrites.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
🙌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...
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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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Roxanne Hawkins @rhawkins.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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_...
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Kris Hill @academiccatlady.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
#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
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Roxanne Hawkins @rhawkins.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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...
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Kathryn Cyr
Play Kathryn Cyr by Lori on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.
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Mental Health Platform @mhplatform.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
🌟 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: buff.ly/42Qn3UZ #MentalHealth #ECR #Fellowship
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Roxanne Hawkins @rhawkins.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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
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Roxanne Hawkins @rhawkins.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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
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Roxanne Hawkins @rhawkins.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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/...
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“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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Roxanne Hawkins @rhawkins.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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...
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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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Roxanne Hawkins @rhawkins.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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
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Roxanne Hawkins @rhawkins.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
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_...
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Matti Wilks @mattiwilks.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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
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PHAIR 2025 – Society for the Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations
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