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
Lotte Holm, University of Copenhagen, talks about 'Change and stability in eating practices: Evidence from four Nordic countries'
Tess Bird and Stanley Ulijaszek, University of Oxford talk about 'Lockdown food: Podcasting through the pandemic'
Marisa Wilson, of the University of Edinburgh on 'Sensing Sugaropolis: Geographies of sugar in Greenock, Scotland'
Ted Fischer and David Napier, Vanderbilt University and University College London, on 'The cultural contexts of health: Global lessons and policy insights from the COVID-19 pandemic'
Edith Feskens, of Wageningen University, presents the first results of the SWEET EU project: Sweeteners and the incidence of obesity and related health outcomes in 5 European cohorts
Garrath Williams, of Lancaster University talks about the reasons why he has given up on writing about corporate food systems
Michael Goran, of the University of Southern California, talks about 'Sugarproof' his book with Emily Ventura, on how to get sugar out of your diet
Giles Yeo of the University of Cambridge, talks about food and cooking through the COVID-19 pandemic
Stanley Ulijaszek, Professor of Human Ecology, University of Oxford,talks about human taste perception as a key form of ecological sensing
Sarah Bourke, of the University of Oxford, talks about 'Cultural determinants of health as a research framework: A case study from Indigenous Australia'
John Komlos, University of Munich, on ‘Post-COVID-19 futures: The need for a paradigm shift in economics’. Chaired by Stanley Ulijaszek.
Erik Hemmingsson, Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, Stockholm, on ‘The social origins of childhood obesity’. Chaired by Stanley Ulijaszek.
Carol Ferreira and Bruno Gualano, University of Sao Paulo, on ‘Changes in physical activity and eating habits during the pandemic: A Brazilian view’. Chaired by Sabine Parrish.
Fiona Lavelle, Queens University, Belfast ‘‘From the pandemic to the pan: A cross-continental overview of changes in consumers cooking and food practices during COVID-19’. Chaired by Sabine Parrish.