Oxford Obesity - Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity, University of Oxford

By Unit for BioCultural Variation and Obesity, University of Oxford

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Presentations from the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. Visit: https://www.oxfordobesity.com/

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Stanley Ulijaszek introduces the Unit for BioCultural Variation and Obesity Workshop on Food, Activity and mental Health in the Year of Coronavirus.
Dec 05, 2022
Caroline Potter and Sabine Parrish talk about 'Identifying changes in household eating and physical activity during the COVID19 pandemic'
Dec 05, 2022
Amy McLennan speaking about 'Lockdown food and the invisible ways tech is shaping our food systems'
Dec 05, 2022
Paulina Nowicka, Uppsala University, and Karin Eli, University of Warwick, on 'Childhood obesity during a global pandemic: Exploring parents' experiences of stress, change, and everyday disruption'
Nov 30, 2022
UBVO at 15 years, flash-talk workshop Part 2 - Caroline Potter; Paulina Nowicka; Kaushik Bose; Karin Eli; Thao Dam
Nov 30, 2022
UBVO at 15 years, flash-talk workshop Part 1 - Introduction; Maciej Henneberg; Amy McLennan; Megan Warin; Michelle Pentecost
Nov 30, 2022
Lotte Holm, University of Copenhagen, talks about 'Change and stability in eating practices: Evidence from four Nordic countries' ​
Nov 24, 2022
Tess Bird and Stanley Ulijaszek, University of Oxford talk about 'Lockdown food: Podcasting through the pandemic'
Nov 24, 2022
Marisa Wilson, of the University of Edinburgh on 'Sensing Sugaropolis: Geographies of sugar in Greenock, Scotland'​
Nov 23, 2022
Ted Fischer and David Napier, Vanderbilt University and University College London, on the cultural contexts of health in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
Nov 23, 2022
Edith Feskens, of Wageningen University , speaks to 'Sweeteners and the incidence of obesity and related health outcomes in 5 European cohorts'
Nov 23, 2022
Garrath Williams, of Lancaster University, talking about 'Despair and abandonment: Why I gave up writing about our corporate food systems'
Nov 19, 2022
Michael Goran, of the University of Southern California, on how to get sugar out of your diet
Nov 18, 2022
Giles Yeo, University of Cambridge, on Lockdown Cuisine
Nov 18, 2022
Stanley Ulijaszek, University of Oxford, on human taste perception as ecological sensing
Nov 18, 2022
Sarah Bourke, University of Oxford - Cultural determinants of health as a research framework: A case study from Indigenous Australia
May 10, 2021
John Komlos, University of Munich, on ‘Post-COVID-19 futures: The need for a paradigm shift in economics’
Mar 25, 2021
Erik Hemmingsson, Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, Stockholm, on ‘The social origins of childhood obesity’
Mar 25, 2021
Carol Ferreira and Bruno Gualano, University of Sao Paulo, on ‘Changes in physical activity and eating habits during the pandemic: A Brazilian view’
Mar 25, 2021
Fiona Lavelle, Queens University, Belfast ‘‘From the pandemic to the pan: A cross-continental overview of changes in consumers cooking and food practices during COVID-19’
Mar 25, 2021
Michelle Pentecost, Kings College London, on ‘Preconception interventions: the future of obesity prevention strategies?’
Mar 25, 2021
Hannah Graff, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, ‘Talking sugar in South Africa’
Mar 25, 2021
Karen Watson, Imperial College London on ‘The role of popular culture in creating new norms for wellness’
Mar 25, 2021
Teresa Mares, University of Vermont, on ‘Life on the other border: farmworkers and food justice in Vermont’
Mar 25, 2021
Alex Brewis Slade, Arizona State University - 'Lazy, crazy and disgusting. Stigma and the undoing of global health'
Feb 17, 2021
Zoe Meleo-Erwin, of William Paterson University of New Jersey, talks about 'How neoliberal healthism and inequality shape bariatric surgery support forum dynamics'
Feb 17, 2021
Oli Williams, King's College London, talks about 'Feeling the 'weight' of expectation: The necessity of understanding 'obesity' as a biopsychosocial phenomenon'
Feb 05, 2021
Adam Gilbertson, of the University of North Carolina talks about ‘Voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV prevention in Kenya: Anthropology and ethics in the pursuit of public health’
Feb 04, 2021
Ben Wurgaft, Massachusetts Institute of Technology talks about ‘Cultured meat as a case study in the future of food’
Feb 04, 2021
Rebecca Puhl presents on ‘The damaging impact of weight stigma: Psychosocial stress and harmful health consequences’
Feb 04, 2021
William Dietz on ‘The syndemic of COVID-19, obesity and food insecurity in the United States’
Feb 04, 2021