Oxford Obesity - Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity, University of Oxford Unit for BioCultural Variation and Obesity, University of Oxford

Stanley Ulijaszek introduces the Unit for BioCultural Variation and Obesity Workshop on Food, Activity and mental Health in the Year of Coronavirus.

Caroline Potter and Sabine Parrish speak at the Unit for BioCultural Variation and Obesity Workshop on Food, Activity and mental Health in the Year of Coronavirus, on 'Identifying changes in household eating and physical activity during the COVID19 pandemic'.

Amy McLennan speaking at the UBVO workshop 'Food, Activity, and Mental Health in the Year of Coronavirus', on 'Lockdown food and the invisible ways tech is shaping our food systems' 

Paulina Nowicka, Uppsala University, and Karin Eli, University of Warwick, on 'Childhood obesity during a global pandemic: Exploring parents' experiences of stress, change, and everyday disruption'. A presentation at the UBVO Workshop on  'Food, Activity and Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic'

UBVO at 15 years, flash-talk workshop Part 2 - with Caroline Potter; Paulina Nowicka; Kaushik Bose; Karin Eli; Thao Dam

Caroline Potter, University of Oxford - 15 years beyond the spaghetti diagram: contending with complexity in obesity research across the life course

Paulina Nowicka, Uppsala University - The Grandparents Study: What we have learned in the past decade about intergenerational influences on body weight,              eating and physical activity

Kaushik Bose, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal - Central obesity and hypertension among rural adults of Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India


Karin Eli, University of Warwick - Understanding eating disorders: Five key anthropological contributions in the last 15 years

Thao Dam, UNISG, Pollenzo - Once more, for the cheese pull: Broadcasting meals with Mukbang

UBVO at 15 years, flash-talk workshop Part 1 

Introduction by Stanley Ulijaszek, Caroline Potter and Karin Eli, University of Oxford; University of Warwick

Maciej Henneberg, University of Adelaide - Biological causes of obesity

Amy McLennan, Australian National University / University of Oxford / UniSA - Obesity and the chronic inflammation epidemic

Megan Warin, University of Adelaide - The epistemic and political stakes of bodies, eating, developmental origins and epigenetics

Michelle Pentecost, King’s College London - Preconception interventions for obesity prevention: challenges and opportunities