Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars
A podcast by Oxford University
194 Episodes
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A cognitive profile of obesity and its translation into new cognitive-behavioural health care interventions
Published: 2/12/2019 -
An interview with Andrew Ross on 'The future of bread'
Published: 2/12/2019 -
How literary studies can help us understand eating disorders
Published: 9/17/2018 -
The matter of being: knowing bodies and 'mental' health
Published: 9/17/2018 -
What remains? Dancing archaeology
Published: 9/17/2018 -
My fat body: an axis for research
Published: 9/17/2018 -
What is Rational About Obesity?
Published: 9/17/2018 -
Framing Obesity as a Problem
Published: 9/17/2018 -
Resisting moralisation in health promotion
Published: 3/13/2018 -
Not your good fatty: how fat activists disrupt using Web 2.0
Published: 3/13/2018 -
Anorexia, care and comfort
Published: 3/13/2018 -
Bitter-sweet adaptation
Published: 3/13/2018 -
Macaques at the margins
Published: 3/13/2018 -
The discursive regulation of 'too fat' and 'too thin' bodies
Published: 3/13/2018 -
Obesity in the US media, 1999-2010
Published: 3/13/2018 -
Completing contemporary discourses of obesity
Published: 3/13/2018 -
Analytic approaches to media representations
Published: 3/13/2018 -
Text mining techniques
Published: 3/13/2018 -
Dangerous engagements? Exploring pro-anorexia websites and in the media
Published: 3/13/2018 -
Not social mobility but deprivation mobility: places change their characteristics and people change their places
Published: 3/13/2018
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.