Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars

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The Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) is an interdisciplinary research unit based at the University of Oxford, dedicated to understanding the complex and interwoven causes of obesity in populations across the world. This seminar series is hosted by the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford.

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  • Fatness and the body 5/5: When the measure becomes the metric - making sense of the body mass index in research and practice
    Jun 24, 2024 – 44:11
  • Fatness and the body 4/5: Fifteen (plus!) ways estrogens influence adipose tissues
    Jun 24, 2024 – 39:01
  • Fatness and the body 3/5: Why is there a higher prevalence of overweight and obesity in rural areas? A qualitative study of rural children's perspectives of rural foodways
    Jun 24, 2024 – 32:25
  • Fatness and the body 2/5: Being fat or having obesity - combining social constructivism and biomedical research on childhood obesity
    Jun 24, 2024 – 39:05
  • Fatness and the body 1/5: Childhood adversity and adiposity - examining differences by sociocultural context
    Jun 24, 2024 – 48:16
  • Emotions in international food law
    Apr 30, 2024 – 28:01
  • Sugarcoated: Sugar tax and media discourses on the context of policymaking
    Apr 30, 2024 – 05:23
  • Sweetness as an aesthetic relationship
    Apr 30, 2024 – 31:03
  • Outwitting the temporalities of ‘control’ for Type 2 diabetes in urban India
    Apr 30, 2024 – 35:45
  • Excess as entertainment: Mukbang and the theatrics of eating for an online audience
    Dec 15, 2023 – 37:22
  • From grassroots to platforms. The reconfiguration of alternative food provisioning in an online world
    Dec 15, 2023 – 48:18
  • Curating good choice, digital marketplace platforms and the framing of eating
    Dec 15, 2023 – 46:46
  • Personalised nutrition and dietary behaviour change in an online study across 7 European countries
    Dec 15, 2023 – 38:35
  • Lazy, crazy and disgusting: stigma and the undoing of global health
    Oct 22, 2021 – 44:46
  • Connection and conflict: hHw neoliberal healthism and inequity shape bariatric surgery support forum dynamics
    Oct 22, 2021 – 44:45
  • Voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV prevention in Kenya: Anthropology and ethics in the pursuit of public health
    Oct 22, 2021 – 33:59
  • Cultured meat as a case study in the future of food
    Oct 22, 2021 – 34:48
  • Feeling the ‘weight’ of expectation: The necessity of understanding ‘obesity’ as a biopsychosocial phenomenon
    Oct 22, 2021 – 44:04
  • The damaging impact of weight stigma: Psychosocial stress and harmful health consequences
    Oct 22, 2021 – 34:55
  • The syndemic of COVID-19, obesity and food insecurity in the United States
    Oct 22, 2021 – 36:01
  • Making Cultures Count: Following the Mayi Kuwayu National Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing
    Mar 31, 2021 – 20:07
  • Framing obesity as a problem
    Feb 25, 2021 – 51:45
  • Protein and meat as powerful symbols
    Feb 25, 2021 – 56:13
  • Sustainability on stage: FoodTech and the spectacle of innovation
    Feb 25, 2021 – 42:56
  • Is obesity a choice?
    Feb 25, 2021 – 50:02
  • Height, weight and prostate cancer
    Feb 25, 2021 – 35:16
  • Coffee, pure and simple: Rejection of milk and sugar by Brazilian specialty coffee consumers
    Feb 25, 2021 – 51:48
  • An eco-bio-socio-political approach to anaemia in Peru
    Feb 25, 2021 – 38:31
  • Nutrient timing and human health
    Jan 22, 2020 – 41:07
  • Can wearable sensors and machine learning enhance our understanding of lifestyle health behaviours?
    Jan 22, 2020 – 52:49
  • How mapping frames obesity and chronic disease risk factors
    Jan 22, 2020 – 18:12
  • Changing ecologies of disease
    Jan 22, 2020 – 47:34
  • Biocultural approaches to human physical activity in (increasingly smart) urban environments
    Jan 20, 2020 – 01:46:10
  • The social life of childhood obesity
    Jan 20, 2020 – 36:25
  • Obesity: human developmental perspectives
    Jan 20, 2020 – 43:19
  • The UK government's childhood obesity plan
    Jan 20, 2020 – 28:03
  • The evolution of adipose tissues and how natural obesity in wild mammals elucidates human obesity
    Jan 20, 2020 – 37:35
  • The metabolic consequences of obesity
    Jan 20, 2020 – 27:48
  • Using low-energy diets to treat obesity: from research to practice
    Jan 20, 2020 – 22:41
  • What's in the fridge? The everyday materiality of health and well-being
    Jan 20, 2020 – 34:12
  • The Danish Health Interview Surveys
    Jan 20, 2020 – 12:17
  • Materialities of eating disorders
    Jan 20, 2020 – 23:51
  • Boys, bulk and body ideals: epidemiology of muscle-enhancing and disordered eating behaviours in US adolescents
    Jan 20, 2020 – 34:52
  • Nutrition and aging well: evidence from centenarians
    Jan 20, 2020 – 18:44
  • Materialities of food education: practice, research and policy
    Jan 20, 2020 – 45:33
  • Rights-based approaches to the regulation of food marketing
    Jan 20, 2020 – 45:40
  • Addressing childhood obesity using a family and community-based approach: The MEND programmes
    Jul 1, 2019 – 36:57
  • 'Instruments and Institutions'. An interview on 'Evolving Human Nutrition'
    Jul 1, 2019 – 07:16
  • Energy balance behaviours: the role of emotions and emotion regulation
    Jul 1, 2019 – 40:41
  • Making Cultures Count: Following the Mayi Kuwayu National Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing
    Jul 1, 2019 – 37:26
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