194 Episodes

  1. Epigenetics: Environment, embodiment and equality

    Published: 2/28/2017
  2. Familial homeostasis and negotiations of children's eating and physical activity: An analysis of intergenerational conversations in low income US families

    Published: 1/18/2017
  3. The influence of school on eating disorders in girls - evidence from Sweden and the UK

    Published: 1/18/2017
  4. The Great Gatsby curve in 3D: Inequality of outcomes, inequality of opportunities, and social mobility across countries

    Published: 1/18/2017
  5. Advancing a model of inequalities, stress, and obesity

    Published: 6/22/2016
  6. Brown adipose tissue, energy balance, and obesity - UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews

    Published: 6/14/2016
  7. Bariatric surgery in childhood and adolescence - UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews

    Published: 6/14/2016
  8. Familial interventions for childhood obesity - UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews

    Published: 6/14/2016
  9. UK Food Network Responsibility Deal - UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews

    Published: 6/14/2016
  10. The Body Mass Index in Obesity Reporting - UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews

    Published: 6/14/2016
  11. Sugar, Metabolisms, and Taxation - UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews

    Published: 6/14/2016
  12. Obesity, responsibility and ethics

    Published: 6/14/2016
  13. Governing Plastic Biology: Biopolitics in Epigenetic Times.

    Published: 6/2/2016
  14. The dynamics in the details: An ethnography of food aid, weights and measures in South Sudan.

    Published: 5/18/2016
  15. The fat(tened) American: Between consumption, disgust, and animality

    Published: 2/22/2016
  16. What's next? The National Obesity Observatory

    Published: 2/22/2016
  17. Hacking the Food System: Technologies of Justice and Inequality

    Published: 2/8/2016
  18. Food as Media

    Published: 2/8/2016
  19. Celebrity Chefs as Political Activists: Audiences, Moments and Affect

    Published: 2/8/2016
  20. Keynote: When Food Goes Digital: From a Mundane Point of View

    Published: 2/8/2016

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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.