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

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 ..read more

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'  ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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: challen ..read more

Lotte Holm, University of Copenhagen, talks about 'Change and stability in eating practices: Evidence from four Nordic countries ..read more

Tess Bird and Stanley Ulijaszek, University of Oxford  talk about 'Lockdown food: Podcasting through the pandemic ..read more

Marisa Wilson, of the University of Edinburgh  on 'Sensing Sugaropolis: Geographies of sugar in Greenock, Scotland ..read more

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 ..read more