194 Episodes

  1. Making Cultures Count: Following the Mayi Kuwayu National Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing

    Published: 3/31/2021
  2. Framing obesity as a problem

    Published: 2/25/2021
  3. Protein and meat as powerful symbols

    Published: 2/25/2021
  4. Sustainability on stage: FoodTech and the spectacle of innovation

    Published: 2/25/2021
  5. Is obesity a choice?

    Published: 2/25/2021
  6. Height, weight and prostate cancer

    Published: 2/25/2021
  7. Coffee, pure and simple: Rejection of milk and sugar by Brazilian specialty coffee consumers

    Published: 2/25/2021
  8. An eco-bio-socio-political approach to anaemia in Peru

    Published: 2/25/2021
  9. Nutrient timing and human health

    Published: 1/22/2020
  10. Can wearable sensors and machine learning enhance our understanding of lifestyle health behaviours?

    Published: 1/22/2020
  11. How mapping frames obesity and chronic disease risk factors

    Published: 1/22/2020
  12. Changing ecologies of disease

    Published: 1/22/2020
  13. Biocultural approaches to human physical activity in (increasingly smart) urban environments

    Published: 1/20/2020
  14. The social life of childhood obesity

    Published: 1/20/2020
  15. Obesity: human developmental perspectives

    Published: 1/20/2020
  16. The UK government's childhood obesity plan

    Published: 1/20/2020
  17. The evolution of adipose tissues and how natural obesity in wild mammals elucidates human obesity

    Published: 1/20/2020
  18. The metabolic consequences of obesity

    Published: 1/20/2020
  19. Using low-energy diets to treat obesity: from research to practice

    Published: 1/20/2020
  20. What's in the fridge? The everyday materiality of health and well-being

    Published: 1/20/2020

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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.