194 Episodes

  1. A cognitive profile of obesity and its translation into new cognitive-behavioural health care interventions

    Published: 2/12/2019
  2. An interview with Andrew Ross on 'The future of bread'

    Published: 2/12/2019
  3. How literary studies can help us understand eating disorders

    Published: 9/17/2018
  4. The matter of being: knowing bodies and 'mental' health

    Published: 9/17/2018
  5. What remains? Dancing archaeology

    Published: 9/17/2018
  6. My fat body: an axis for research

    Published: 9/17/2018
  7. What is Rational About Obesity?

    Published: 9/17/2018
  8. Framing Obesity as a Problem

    Published: 9/17/2018
  9. Resisting moralisation in health promotion

    Published: 3/13/2018
  10. Not your good fatty: how fat activists disrupt using Web 2.0

    Published: 3/13/2018
  11. Anorexia, care and comfort

    Published: 3/13/2018
  12. Bitter-sweet adaptation

    Published: 3/13/2018
  13. Macaques at the margins

    Published: 3/13/2018
  14. The discursive regulation of 'too fat' and 'too thin' bodies

    Published: 3/13/2018
  15. Obesity in the US media, 1999-2010

    Published: 3/13/2018
  16. Completing contemporary discourses of obesity

    Published: 3/13/2018
  17. Analytic approaches to media representations

    Published: 3/13/2018
  18. Text mining techniques

    Published: 3/13/2018
  19. Dangerous engagements? Exploring pro-anorexia websites and in the media

    Published: 3/13/2018
  20. Not social mobility but deprivation mobility: places change their characteristics and people change their places

    Published: 3/13/2018

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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.