194 Episodes

  1. Evidence of the effectiveness of health-related food taxes

    Published: 12/17/2014
  2. It's not fat - it’s bioprene: marathon swimming and heroic fatness

    Published: 12/17/2014
  3. Rodent Models of Obesity-Reductionist Approaches to Understanding the Basis of a Complex Human Trait

    Published: 12/17/2014
  4. Exploring critical geographies of obesity and fatness: environments, bodies and activism

    Published: 12/17/2014
  5. From denial to corporate social responsibility: rhetoric of the food industry on obesity prevention

    Published: 12/17/2014
  6. The Disenchantment of the Plate

    Published: 6/30/2014
  7. What would the British food system look like if it took ecological public health at its heart?

    Published: 6/30/2014
  8. Bodies of water

    Published: 6/30/2014
  9. Microbes matter: metabolism and chronic disease in contemporary biomedicine

    Published: 6/30/2014
  10. How many bodies? The clinic, the kitchen and the context of obesity

    Published: 6/30/2014
  11. Obesity in the news media life cycle: ethics, responsibility, and stigmatisation

    Published: 6/30/2014
  12. Brief interventions for weight management in primary care

    Published: 3/22/2014
  13. Comparative political ecologies of food and diet: systems of provision in Trinidad and Cuba

    Published: 3/22/2014
  14. The intimacies of the celebrity chef industry: affects, effects and the mediation of eating

    Published: 3/22/2014
  15. Obesity and physical activity: from behaviour to environment

    Published: 3/22/2014
  16. Liminal living: eating disordered embodiment and the reconfiguring of social being

    Published: 3/22/2014
  17. Biocultural perspectives on globalizing fat stigma

    Published: 12/9/2013
  18. Tropical Medicine Obesity, systems and complexity

    Published: 12/9/2013
  19. Feeding the Elderly: A study of political, societal and individual practices regarding food for the elderly in Denmark 1880-2013

    Published: 12/9/2013
  20. Behavioural economics and eating habits

    Published: 12/9/2013

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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.