Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars

Por: Oxford University
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.
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Latest episodes of the podcast Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars

Fatness and the body 5/5: When the measure becomes the metric - making sense of the body mass index in research and practice 24/06/2024
Fatness and the body 4/5: Fifteen (plus!) ways estrogens influence adipose tissues 24/06/2024
Fatness and the body 3/5: Why is there a higher prevalence of overweight and obesity in rural areas? A qualitative study of rural children's perspectives of rural foodways 24/06/2024
Fatness and the body 2/5: Being fat or having obesity - combining social constructivism and biomedical research on childhood obesity 24/06/2024
Fatness and the body 1/5: Childhood adversity and adiposity - examining differences by sociocultural context 24/06/2024
Emotions in international food law 30/04/2024
Sugarcoated: Sugar tax and media discourses on the context of policymaking 30/04/2024
Sweetness as an aesthetic relationship 30/04/2024
Outwitting the temporalities of ‘control’ for Type 2 diabetes in urban India 30/04/2024
Excess as entertainment: Mukbang and the theatrics of eating for an online audience 15/12/2023
From grassroots to platforms. The reconfiguration of alternative food provisioning in an online world 15/12/2023
Curating good choice, digital marketplace platforms and the framing of eating 15/12/2023
Personalised nutrition and dietary behaviour change in an online study across 7 European countries 15/12/2023
Lazy, crazy and disgusting: stigma and the undoing of global health 22/10/2021
Connection and conflict: hHw neoliberal healthism and inequity shape bariatric surgery support forum dynamics 22/10/2021
Voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV prevention in Kenya: Anthropology and ethics in the pursuit of public health 22/10/2021
Cultured meat as a case study in the future of food 22/10/2021
Feeling the ‘weight’ of expectation: The necessity of understanding ‘obesity’ as a biopsychosocial phenomenon 22/10/2021
The damaging impact of weight stigma: Psychosocial stress and harmful health consequences 22/10/2021
The syndemic of COVID-19, obesity and food insecurity in the United States 22/10/2021
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