194 Episodes

  1. Constructing the archetypal anorectic trends in media representations of eating disordered celebrities

    Published: 3/13/2018
  2. Polyrational approaches to obesity

    Published: 2/28/2018
  3. Physical activity and the built environment

    Published: 2/28/2018
  4. Models of Obesity - A Book Launch

    Published: 2/28/2018
  5. Listening to the News Audience - What's Missing from Obesity News?

    Published: 2/28/2018
  6. Childhood Obesity in Portugal

    Published: 2/28/2018
  7. What is Nutritional Anthropology?

    Published: 2/28/2018
  8. Obesity and Consumption

    Published: 2/28/2018
  9. Life between protocols: the pragmatics of care in a nutrition intervention in Khayelitisha, South Africa

    Published: 9/5/2017
  10. Food and eating

    Published: 9/5/2017
  11. Energy balance models of obesity

    Published: 9/5/2017
  12. Global transformation of diet

    Published: 9/5/2017
  13. Obesity governance through measurement

    Published: 9/5/2017
  14. Genetics of obesity

    Published: 9/5/2017
  15. Limitations of obesity models

    Published: 9/5/2017
  16. Obesogenic environments

    Published: 9/5/2017
  17. Bariatric surgery's intersubjective embodiments

    Published: 9/5/2017
  18. The obesity epidemic and how bodies come to be through the pedagogies of digital health

    Published: 2/28/2017
  19. Inequality, Obesity and Oxford: how to reduce car dependence

    Published: 2/28/2017
  20. Social Mobility: Can family policy make a difference?

    Published: 2/28/2017

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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.