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We are 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. Our Fellows, Associates, and students represent a diversity of disciplines, both within and beyond the academic sphere. Our project collaborators range from visual and performance artists to epidemiologists, policymakers and anthropologists. A paper outlining the UBVO's multidisciplinary obesity research can be found here.
...is the tongue-in-cheek documentary “KING CORN: You are What You Eat”, a commentary on the ubiquity of corn in today’s diet in the United States. The film, whose official trailer is featured here, serves as the inspiration for the latest UBVO Opinion Paper, writen by Professor Michael Goran. You can find the paper on our Opinion Papers page.
The UBVO seminar series programme for Trinity Term 2012 is available now! Check out the programme here.
You can listen to all of the old seminars at the UBVO page in Oxford's iTunesU.
The book arising from a 2009 UBVO Workshop has recently been completed. Insecurity, Inequality, and Obesity in Aflluent Societies (OUP 2012) is edited by Avner Offer, Rachel Pechey and Stanley Ulijaszek, and features contributions from a number of speakers involved in the Obesity: the Welfare Regime Hypothesis conference.