🚨DELPHI Survey now open!🚨

If you are a researcher/clinician with experience in animal-assisted interventions or SPIRIT/CONSORT guidelines or a Dog-Assisted Intervention provider (handler, therapist etc.), please contact us to take part:

[email protected]

📢 New paper just out! Great to work with the fantastic team Dogs for Good to evaluate the impact of assistance #dogs on quality of life in children and adults with #autism or a physical #disability . Published in CABI Human-Animal Interactions 🐾⬇️

cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/ha…

We are very excited to announce the launch of our new website! 🚨🐾

Check out adastra-research.co.uk for information, updates and how to get in touch! 💫

Emily Shoesmith Elena Ratschen Sophie Hall JennyR Human-Animal Interaction Research York MHARG York

📢 RECRUITING NOW! We are looking for dog-assisted intervention (DAI) providers 🦮. We'd love to hear your thoughts on how we can improve DAI research. Email us at [email protected] to express interest!

#DogAssistedIntervention #research

Human-Animal Interaction Research York

Interested in tobacco and mental health research? We are looking for a part-time researcher with a special interest in dissemination to join our lovely team. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/resear…

Thrilled to share the news of having been awarded with Sophie Hall, Emily Shoesmith, Daniel Mills, Dogs for Good & TEWV research
an NIHR Programme Development Grant on adjunctive dog-assisted interventions in mental health populations(ADASTRA)!🌟 Exciting times & opportunities!

It was fantastic to present our research at Royal College of Psychiatrists today at a #QuITTCollaborative learning set - excited for the next steps for SCEPTRE Research Programme🌟

University of York Dept Health Sciences

We are guest editing a new special issue at Frontiers - Psychiatry 'Evidencing the Impact of #HumanAnimalInteraction for Those Living with #MentalHealth Problems' Emily Shoesmith Elena Ratschen 🐾

Submissions due 31st Jan 24. More info here ⬇️
frontiersin.org/research-topic…

Delighted to be guest editing another special issue with Elena Ratschen & Dr Roxanne Hawkins in Frontiers - Psychiatry: 'Evidencing the Impact of #HumanAnimalInteraction for Those Living with #MentalHealth Problems' 🐶🐱

Submissions due 31st Jan 24. More info here ⬇️

frontiersin.org/research-topic…

📣Our follow-up survey from the Closing The Gap Network OWLS study has been published in CABI Human-Animal Interactions: the influence of #animal ownership on #mentalhealth for people with severe mental illness 🐾

Available open access ⬇️
cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/ha…

Saying goodbye to Sammy the seal today after a fantastic project exploring robotic animal interventions and what ‘works’ in an inpatient #dementia context 🦭

Looking forward to sharing the findings! A huge thank you to TEWV research 💫

There is still time to apply for an exciting new job opportunity to work on our newly funded study investigating canine-assisted interventions in mental health 🐶Check out the link below ⬇️

Dept Health Sciences University of York Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN Human-Animal Interaction Research York

New job opportunity: Dept Health Sciences and Nottingham Clinical Trials Unit team looking for a researcher to work with us on our newly funded project: canine-assisted interventions in mental health populations. Methods focus. Prep for large programme. Apply now!😊 please share🙏

📢Exciting job opportunity at University of York in collaboration with Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN to work on our newly funded study investigating canine-assisted interventions in mental health 🐶. More information below! ⬇️

jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/resear…

Delighted to be guest editing this special issue with such a fantastic team 🤩

Links between smoking and mental ill health are complex. SCEPTRE Research Programme aims to find ways of supporting people with severe mental illness to become or stay smokefree after discharge from a mental health in-patient stay. #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek york.ac.uk/healthsciences…

Please take a moment to nominate this incredible charity, only takes two minutes and they do fantastic work 💫

Delighted that our fourth paper from the INTACT is published in Wildlife Research CSIRO Publishing 📢

Investigating the role of engagement with #wildlife and use of green/blue space for #mentalhealth during Covid-19 🦆🦉

Link here: publish.csiro.au/WR/WR22125

Our systematic review investigating effective BCTs to support #smoking cessation & preventing relapse following a #smokefree stay has received enough downloads to be a #topdownloadedarticle in Addiction Journal 👏🥳

Available to read open access! ⬇️

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Research project exploring how dog owners make decisions about their choice of dog. See image for details. UoL Ethics Ref: 12660. unilincolnlifescienc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8n…
#frenchie #frenchbulldog #dogsoftwitter #pug #pug life #pug lover #englishbulldog #bulldogs #bulldoglover #pekingese