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Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Fatness and the body 5/5: When the measure becomes the metric - making sense of the body mass index in research and practice

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

Fatness and the body 4/5: Fifteen (plus!) ways estrogens influence adipose tissues

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

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

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

Fatness and the body 2/5: Being fat or having obesity - combining social constructivism and biomedical research on childhood obesity

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

Fatness and the body 1/5: Childhood adversity and adiposity - examining differences by sociocultural context

Looking at the complex relationships between adversity in childhood and obesity in adulthood, with Shakira Suglia, Emory University

Sugarcoated: Sugar tax and media discourses on the context of policymaking

Dr Esther Gonzalez-Padilla asks what is sugar? Why should we study it? And how much sugar should we be eating?

Personalised nutrition and dietary behaviour change in an online study across 7 European countries

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?’

Nutritional Anthropology

Stanley Ulijaszek discusses human dietary evolution, dietary flexibility and present day undernutrition and infection

Understanding the impact of diet on health - Dr Keren Papier

Have you wondered why something like red wine can be good for you according to one scientific paper, but bad for you in another? In this podcast, Dr Keren Papier explains how diet affects our health and why it is difficult to get accurate answers.

Connection and conflict: hHw neoliberal healthism and inequity shape bariatric surgery support forum dynamics

This UBVO seminar was presented by Zoe Meleo-Erwin (William Paterson University of New Jersey) on 19 November 2020

Cultured meat as a case study in the future of food

This UBVO seminar was presented by Ben Wurgaft (MIT) on 5 November 2020

Feeling the ‘weight’ of expectation: The necessity of understanding ‘obesity’ as a biopsychosocial phenomenon

A UBVO seminar presented by Oli Williams (King's College London) on 29 October 2020

Making Cultures Count: Following the Mayi Kuwayu National Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing

A UBVO seminar presented by Sarah Bourke (National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University) on 24 January 2019

Protein and meat as powerful symbols

Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology, University of Oxford) gave this presentation at the UBVO seminar on 21 February 2020

Is obesity a choice?

Giles Yeo from the University of Cambridge gave this presentation for the UBVO seminar series on 30 January 2020

Coffee, pure and simple: Rejection of milk and sugar by Brazilian specialty coffee consumers

Sabine Parrish (from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography) gave this presentation for the UBVO seminar on 6 February 2020

An eco-bio-socio-political approach to anaemia in Peru

Doreen Montag (Queen Mary College London) gave this presentation for the UBVO seminar on 13 February 2020

Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

Rethinking diet, weight and health policy in and after the COVID-19 pandemic

Prof Susan Jebb and Sir Charles Godfray discuss the possible implications of the pandemic on health policy and tackling obesity.

Amy Styring

Archeological Scientist Amy Styring talks with Stanley Ulijaszek

Nutrient timing and human health

A UBVO Seminar given by James Betts (Professor of Metabolic Physiology, Department for Health, University of Bath) on 24 October 2019

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