Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars: Recent Episodes
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.
How body size is used in research and discourse on health, bringing together theory from anthropology, sociology, public health and more. With llya Gutin, University of Texas at Austin
Exploring the phenomenal range of roles estrogens play with respect to our metabolism – a range that is only just beginning to be understood. With Deborah Clegg, Texas Tech University
Exploring children's views on their diets in relation to culture, identity and tradition in their everyday lives. With Ellen Margrete Iveland Ersfjord, University of Agder, Norway
Where or what is the difference between childhood obesity and fatness, who has the right to decide that, and why is it important? With Zofia Boni, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan
Looking at the complex relationships between adversity in childhood and obesity in adulthood, with Shakira Suglia, Emory University
Anne Saab, associate professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute looks at how feelings such as fear and anxiety might influence food safety regulations.
Dr Esther Gonzalez-Padilla asks what is sugar? Why should we study it? And how much sugar should we be eating?
Dr Maddalena Borsato, senior researcher at Ritsumeikan University examines the ambiguities and of the contradictions of sweetness.
Pallavi Laxmikanth speaks about her PhD research examining understandings and practises of diabetes management in middle class communities in Hyderabad’s High-Tech City.
Dr Francesca Forno, Associate professor at the University of Trento discusses how new, grassroots food movements are using online platforms and how their online platforms are being appropriated by bigger businesses. These episodes of the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) podcast were recorded at seminars in 2022, convened by Stanley Ulijaszek and Tanja Schneider. The focus is on how the digital and online world is influencing how and what people eat. Our sincere thanks go to the speakers who contributed.
Dr Jeremy Brice explores how consumer choice is governed, protected, and cared for by firms which operate digital marketplace platforms from the likes of Deliveroo to Amazon Fresh. These episodes of the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) podcast were recorded at seminars in 2022, convened by Stanley Ulijaszek and Tanja Schneider. The focus is on how the digital and online world is influencing how and what people eat. Our sincere thanks go to the speakers who contributed.
Dr Thao Dam explores how food is experienced digitally, through the Korean-originated practice of mukhbang, where people pay to watch others eat inline. These episodes of the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) podcast were recorded at seminars in 2022, convened by Stanley Ulijaszek and Tanja Schneider. The focus is on how the digital and online world is influencing how and what people eat. Our sincere thanks go to the speakers who contributed.
Dr Anna Macready, associate professor in the School of Agriculture Policy and Development at the University of Reading, takes us through personalised nutrition and asks, ‘is there a right or wrong diet?’ These episodes of the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) podcast were recorded at seminars in 2022, convened by Stanley Ulijaszek and Tanja Schneider. The focus is on how the digital and online world is influencing how and what people eat. Our sincere thanks go to the speakers who contributed.
Dr Thao Dam explores how food is experienced digitally, through the Korean-originated practice of mukhbang, where people pay to watch others eat inline.
Dr Francesca Forno, Associate professor at the University of Trento discusses how new, grassroots food movements are using online platforms and how their online platforms are being appropriated by bigger businesses.
Dr Jeremy Brice explores how consumer choice is governed, protected, and cared for by firms which operate digital marketplace platforms from the likes of Deliveroo to Amazon Fresh.
Dr Anna Macready, associate professor in the School of Agriculture Policy and Development at the University of Reading, takes us through personalised nutrition and asks, ‘is there a right or wrong diet?’
This UBVO seminar was given by Alexandra Brewis (Arizona State University) on 3 December 2020
This UBVO seminar was presented by Zoe Meleo-Erwin (William Paterson University of New Jersey) on 19 November 2020
This UBVO seminar was presented by Adam Gilbertson (University of North Carolina) on 12 November 2020
This UBVO seminar was given by Rebecca Puhl (University of Connecticut) on 22 October 2020
This UBVO seminar was given by William Dietz (George Washington University) on 15 October 2020
A UBVO seminar presented by Sarah Bourke (National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University) on 24 January 2019
Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology, University of Oxford) gave this presentation for the UBVO seminar series on 27 February 2020
Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology, University of Oxford) gave this presentation at the UBVO seminar on 21 February 2020
Tanja Schneider (University of St Gallen, Switzerland) gave this presentation for the UBVO seminar series on 12 March 2020
Giles Yeo from the University of Cambridge gave this presentation for the UBVO seminar series on 30 January 2020
Aurora Perez-Cornago (University of Oxford) gave this presentation for the UBVO seminar series on 23 January 2020
Sabine Parrish (from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography) gave this presentation for the UBVO seminar on 6 February 2020
Doreen Montag (Queen Mary College London) gave this presentation for the UBVO seminar on 13 February 2020
A UBVO Seminar given by James Betts (Professor of Metabolic Physiology, Department for Health, University of Bath) on 24 October 2019
A UBVO Seminar given by Aidan Doherty (Nuffield Department of Population Health, Oxford) on 17 October 2019
Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology, Oxford) interviews Professor Danny Dorling (School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford) for the UBVO Instruments and Institutions Interviews series, November 2019
A lecture given by Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology, Oxford) on 16 October 2019
A presentation given by Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology, Oxford) at the Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna, at Ravenna
The Keynote Lecture at the UBVO Green Templeton College Obesity Conference, 16 September 2019, given by Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology, Oxford)
A presentation given by Mike Rayner (Professor of Population Health and Director of the Centre on Population Approaches for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention, Oxford) at the UBVO Green Templeton College Obesity Conference, 16 September 2019
A presentation given by Caroline Pond (Emeritus Professor, Open University) at the UBVO Green Templeton College Obesity Conference, 16 September 2019
A presentation given by Leanne Hodson (Professor of Metabolic Physiology, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, Oxford) at the UBVO Green Templeton College Obesity Conference, 16 September 2019
A presentation given by Nerys Astbury (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Oxford) at the UBVO Green Templeton College Obesity Conference, 16 September 2019
An interview with Ola Ekholm (Senior Adviser, National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark) for the UBVO Instruments and Institutions Interviews series (20 December 2010)
A UBVO seminar presented by Dr Karin Eli (Research Affiliate, University of Oxford) on 30 April 2019
A UBVO seminar presented by Jason M. Nagata (Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco) on 18 September 2019
Claudio Franceschi (Professor of Immunology, University of Bologna) is interviewed by Stanley Ulijaszek (Oxford) for the UBVO Instruments and Institutions Interviews series (May 2019)
A UBVO seminar presented by Barney Haughton (Chef and Director of Square Food Foundation, Bristol) on 9 May 2019
A UBVO seminar presented by Amandine Garde (Professor of Law, University of Liverpool) on 16 May 2019
This UBVO seminar was presented by Paul Sacher, the Chief R&D Officer for MEND, on 3 November 2009
This UBVO seminar was presented by Cristiana Duarte (University of Leeds) on 31 January 2019
Sarah Bourke (a DPhil student in Anthropology, Oxford) presented this UBVO seminar on 1 February 2019
Claire Kneller (Head of Food, Wrap Global) delivered this UBVO seminar on 21 February 2019.
Marijana Todercevic (Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolis), delivered this UBVO seminar on 28 February 2019
A UBVO seminar presented by Robyn Alders (Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney) in July 2018.
A conversation for UBVO between Professor Marion Nestle (NYU Steinhardt) and Professor Claude Fischler (CNRS, Paris), December 2018.
Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (Oxford) gave this presentation at the Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science, Dublin, in 2018
A UBVO seminar given by Dr Caroline Potter of the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, on 10 May 2018.
A UBVO seminar given by Gyprgy Scrinis of the University of Melbourne on 31 October 2018.
A UBVO seminar by Anita Jansen, Professor of Experimental Clinical Psychology at Maastricht University, given 13 June 2018
An interview with Professor Andrew Ross (Food Science and Technology Department, Oregon State University) for the UBVO 'Instruments and Institutions' series. July 2018.
This UBVO seminar was given by Emily Troscianko (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities) in May 2018
This UBVO seminar was given by Grace Lucas (Centre for Maternal and Child Health, London University) in May 2018
This UBVO seminar was given by Marie-Louise Crawley (Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University) in May 2018
This seminar was given by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek at the Center for Research on Human Nutrition in Paris in 2018
A presentation by Anna Lavis (Goldsmiths, London) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017
Professor Sarah Elton (Durham) discusses 'what we can learn about the evolution of human dietary diversity from studying other primates outside the tropics', a UBVO seminar 16 November 2017
A presentation by Helen Malson (University of the West of England) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017
A presentation by Natalie Boero (College of Social Sciences, San Jose, California) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017
A presentation by Helene Shugart (University of Utah) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017
A presentation by David Zeitlyn (University of Oxford) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017
A presentation by John McNaught (Deputy Director of the National Centre for Text Mining) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017
A presentation by Anna Lavis (Goldsmiths, London) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017
A presentation by Paula Saukko (Loughborough University) for the UBVO Obesity, eating disorders and the media workshop in November 2017
In this talk, Professor Stanley Ulijaszek considers whether obesity is a polyrational problem
A presentation given by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek at the Fribourg Obesity Research Conference in Switzerland in 2017
To mark its publication of Models of Obesity: From Ecology to Complexity in Science and Policy in September 2017, author Stanley Ulijaszek discusses the book's themes and purpose
A seminar by Catriona Bonfiglioli, a senior lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia
Professor Stanley Ulijaszek interviews Professor Cristina Padez as part of the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) 'Instruments and Institutions' interviews series
A lecture presented by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland.
Michelle Pentecost (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford) gave this talk on 18 May 2017 as part of the Unity for Biocultural Variation and Obesity seminar series
A presentation given by Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography) for the Unit of Biocultural Variation and Obesity
A presentation given by Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography) for the Unit of Biocultural Variation and Obesity
A presentation given by Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography) for the Unit of Biocultural Variation and Obesity
A presentation given by Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography) for the Unit of Biocultural Variation and Obesity
A presentation given by Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography) for the Unit of Biocultural Variation and Obesity
A presentation given by Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography) for the Unit of Biocultural Variation and Obesity
A presentation given by Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography) for the Unit of Biocultural Variation and Obesity
Heather Howard gave this talk on 11 May 2017 as part of the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity seminar series
Naomi Eisenstadt gives a talk for the UBVO seminar seires on 1st December 2016. Please note, there were technical difficulties during the recording of this episode so it will stop at 12:34. We apologise for this.
Michael Symonds, Karolinska Institutet, gives a talk for the UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews series.
Claude Marcus, Karolinska Institutet, gives a talk for the UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews.
Paulina Nowicka, Karolinska Institutet, gives a talk for the UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews series.
Susan Jebb, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews series.
Philip James, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, gives a talk for the UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews series.
Michael Goran, University of Southern California, gives an interview for the UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews series.
Karin Eli and Tanja Schneider gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series on 29th November 2015.
Mariano Berguerisse Diaz, Amy McLennan and Stanley Ulijaszek give a talk for the UBVO seminar series on 28th November 2015.
Stanley Ulijaszek, ISCA, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the Australasian Society for Human Biology Annual Meeting, Adelaide.
Stanley Ulijaszek, ISCA, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.
Stanley Ulijaszek, ISCA, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.
Stanley Ulijaszek, ISCA, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.
Stanley Ulijaszek, ISCA, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.
Stanley Ulijaszek, ISCA, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.
Stanley Ulijaszek, ISCA, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.
Maciej Henneberg, School of Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.
Paul Griffiths, Charles Perkins Center, University of Sydney, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.
Peter Whybrow gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series, part of the Welfare Regimes Hypothesis.
Stanley Ulijaszek gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series, part of the Welfare Regimes Hypothesis
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, Welfare Regimes Hypothesis, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series on 27th November 2009.
Thorkild Sørensen (University of Copenhagen) gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series on 27th November 2009
Trent Smith (Washington State University) gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series on 27th Novmber 2009
Stanley Ulijaszek, ISCA, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity and Karolinska Institutet Workshop: Developmental Frameworks of Childhood Obesity.
Peter Scarborough, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the Michaelmas Term UBVO Seminar series.
Karen Throsby, Leeds University, gives a talk for the Michaelmas term UBVO seminar series.
Neil Docherty, University College Dublin, gives a talk for the Michaelmas Term UBVO Seminar Series.
Rachel Colls, Durham University, gives a talk for the Michaelmas Term UBVO seminar series.
Amadine Garde, Liverpool University, gives a talk for the Michaelmas Term UBVO seminar series.
Emily Yates-Doerr, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, gves a talk for the UBVO seminar series
Catriona Bonfiglioli, Media Studies, Social and Political Change Group, University of Technology Sydney, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series
Amanda Lewis Department of Primary Care Health Science, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series
Emma-Jayne Abbots University of Wales, Trinity St David, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series
Jean-Michel Oppert Centre de Recherche en Nutrition Humaine (CRNH), Paris, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series
Karin Eli, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series
Professor Alexandra Brewis, Director of Human Evolution and Social Change and ASU-Mayo Obesity Solutions, gives a talk for the UBVO Seminar series
Harry Rutter. Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series
Michèle Belot, School of Economics, University of Edinburgh, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.
Giovanna Neri, Study Coordinator in Clinical Trials, Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Bergamo, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.
Hannah Graff, National Heart Forum, gives a talk for the UBVO Seminar Series on 22nd November 2012.
Mariano Beguerisse-Diaz,Department of Mathematics and Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, gives a talk for the UBVO Seminar Series on 31st January 2013.
Angela Davis, Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series on 7th February 2013.
Hiranthi Jayaweera, COMPAS, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.
Laurel Edmunds, Oxford Institute of Ageing, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.
Lucy Cooke, Health Behaviour Research Centre, University College London, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.
Podcast looking at the way in which public health campaigns, in particular the Change4Life campaign are marketed. By Kevin Chan, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge.
Megan Warin, University of Adelaide, Australia, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.
Jennifer Baker,Imperial College School of Medicine, Imperial College London, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.
Rebecca White, Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.
Udi Butler, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.
Paulina Nowicka, Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.
Embodying soldier's physicality through research and training and how this approach affected the final production and audience experience.
Dr Caroline Potter, Lecturer in Medical Anthropology for the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series on 5th May 2011.
Tenna Jensen, Department of History, University of Copenhagen, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.
Abdulrahman El-Sayid, DPhil Student, British Heart Foundation, Oxford, gives a talk for the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminar series.
Michael Goran gives a talk for the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminar series.
Karin Eli, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.
Cressida Marcus gives a talk for the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminar series.
Kerry O'Brien, Senior lecturer, University of Manchester and Monash University, gives a talk for the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminar series.
Nikola Koepke gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series entitled: Insights into the Development of Wellbeing in the Very Long Run: Status of Pe-Historic and Historic Europe.
Maciej Henneberg gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series entitled 'Alanine Transaminase is a better marker than Socio-Cultural Factors for Body Mass Increase in Healthy Males: A Study of 46,000 Swiss Conscripts'.
Annie Cattrell, a Senior Research Fellow in De Montfort University gives a talk for the UBVO Seminar Series.
Daniel Schwekendiek from the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology in Oxford gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.
Aravinda Gunupalli gives a talk entitled 'Inquiry into the Simultaneous Existence of Malnutirion and Overweight in India Using Quantile Regression'.
Peter Whybrow gives a talk as part of the UBVO seminar series on health and obesity in America.
Emma Redding of The Laban Contemporary Dance studio in London gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series.
Mike Rayner and Stanley Uljiaszek give a talk about the causes of obesity on 7th November 2007.
Nicholas Timpson, of the Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, gives a talk on Genetics of obesity, and the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children on the 9th November 2009.
Stanley Ulijaszek, Professor of Human Ecology, Director of UBVO, University of Oxford, gives a talk on networks and obesity.