STUDENT AWARDS for ISAZ CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
A student competition for best poster and best oral presentation will be held at the 2019 ISAZ Conference in Orlando, Florida. Only ISAZ student members are eligible to compete. To learn more about student membership, click here.
In order to participate in the competition, you need to select “Yes” for the question “Is this a submission for the student competition?” on the abstract submission form.
These awards were sponsored by:
2018
Oral Presentation:
Megan LaFollette
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Title: PTSD service dogs: associations between training techniques, service dog behaviours, and human–animal bond.
Poster Presentation:
Rachel Yerbury
Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW, Australia
Title: Human-dolphin interactions: Relationships, connections and the reinforcement of an ongoing nature relationship.
2017
Oral Presentation:
Molly Crossman
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Title: The dog person scale: development and validation
Poster Presentation:
Stephanie Roeter
Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States
Title: Evidence to action: integrating empirical evidence into a family-level equine assisted learning program
2016
Oral Presentation:
Lisa Gunter
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States
Title: Purebreds are like Unicorns: Understanding the Breed Ancestry of Shelter Dogs & the Influence of Breed labels on Potential Adopter Perception
Poster Presentation:
Sara Owczarczak-Garstecka
University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Title: Using YouTube to study dog bites. Analysis of context and perception of risk
2015
Oral Presentation:
Paula Calvo
Affinity Foundation Animals and Health Department of Psychiatry and Forensic Medicine University of Barcelona Barcelona, Spain
Title: Attitudes towards animals: a population-based study (N=2500)
Poster Presentation:
Béatrice Auger
University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada
Title: Extending the pet as ambassadors hypothesis
2014
Oral Presentation:
Lisa Wallis
Clever Dog Lab, Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria
Title: Dogs can follow human gaze despite training to maintain eye contact
Poster Presentation:
Verena Ziemen
Human-Animal Relationships Research Group, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Title: Adopted street dogs: owner and dog personality and relationship
2013
Oral Presentation:
Zenithson Ng
Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, Blacksburg, Virginia
Title: The effect of dog-human interaction on cortisol and behavior in registered animal-assisted activity dogs
Poster Presentation:
Heather J. Svoboda
College of Arts & Sciences, Canisius College, USA
Title: A novel, empirical test of black dog syndrome