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