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Archive of previous seminars

Selected papers, presentations and audio (MP3) recordings of previous seminars are available below. Where possible (and with permission from the authors), MP3 recordings of most UBVO seminars are available for free download from The University of Oxford's iTunesU platform. Click here to visit UBVO on iTunesU.

If you do not have iTunes software on your computer, you can access the podcasts by searching for 'obesity' at podcasts.ox.ac.uk, or by clicking on the links below, which will take you directly to the recorded seminar. Alternatively, download iTunes for free here.

If your seminar of interest is not available, please contact oxfordobesity@gmail.com to find out if the MP3 recording, powerpoint slides or papers relating to the presentation are saved in our archives.

Date presented
Presenter
Title
Links
17/11/11 Annamaria Carusi
Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford
Modelling, simulation and visualisation in computational science: perspectives on embodiment  
10/11/11 Rosie Kay
Rosie Kay Dance Company
5 SOLDIERS - The Body Is The Frontline
Embodying soldier’s physicality through research and training and how this approach affected the final production and audience experience.
MP3 (podcast)
03/11/11

Igho Onakpoya
Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford

Herbal supplements for body weight reduction: a critical review  
24/05/11 EL-SAYED, Abdulrahman
Dept of Public Health, University of Oxford

Systems science and inequalities in obesity in England: Findings from an agent-based model MP3 (iTunes)
MP3 (podcast)
19/05/11 LAVIS, Anna
Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths
Dialectical engagements: Exploring relationships between pro-anorexia and the clinic  
12/05/11 JENSEN, Tenna
Department of History, University of Copenhagen
Two perspectives on the longitudinal trends in food consumption: The case of Denmark 1900-2000 MP3 (iTunes)
MP3 (podcast)
05/05/11 POTTER, Caroline
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford
Predictable obesity? An ecological approach for identifying future health risk MP3 (iTunes)
MP3 (podcast)
10/03/2011 KELLY, Paul & DOHERTY, Aiden
Department of Public Health, University of Oxford
Digital Image Capture in Public Health Surveillance for Physical Activity and Food Behaviour Assessment MP3 (iTunes)
MP3 (podcast)
3/03/2011 GORAN, Michael
Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
Fizzyology: Genetics, Metabolic Effects, Health Outcomes and Politics of High Sugar Consumption in Children MP3 (iTunes)
MP3 (podcast)
24/02/2011 ELI, Karin
ISCA, University of Oxford
The Phenomenology of Binge Eating in Anorexia and Bulimia MP3 (iTunes)
MP3 (podcast)
2/12/2010 RAYNER, Geof
Centre for Food Policy, City University
Population weight gain as the outcome of dietary, energy and cultural transition: An ecological public health perspective  
18/11/2010 MARCUS, Cressida
ISCA, University of Oxford
Affective Hunger: Bread and famine in Ethiopian Orthodox Christian spirituality MP3 (iTunes)
MP3 (podcast)
11/11/2010 NORDIN, Sanna
Laban, London
Looking skinny, feeling fit - or fat? Exploring attitudes to bodies and eating in dance  
04/11/2010 O'BRIEN, Kerry
School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester
Why do we dislike obese people? MP3 (iTunes)
MP3 (podcast)
26/05/2010 WHYBROW, Peter
Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior, UCLA
The Dilemmas of Affluence: Lessons from the Great American Experiment MP3 (podcast)
19/05/2010 GUNTUPALLI, Aravinda
School of Social Sciences, University of Southampton
Inquiry into the simultaneous existence of malnutrition and overweight in India using quantile regression MP3 (podcast)
12/05/2010

REDDING, Emma
Laban Contemporary Dance, London

The physiology of the dancer MP3 (podcast)
10/03/2010 WENGER, Melanie
School of Anthropology, University of Oxford
Ethnography of eating management programs  
03/03/2010 SCHWEKENDIEK, Daniel
School of Anthropology, University of Oxford
Korea: indications and implications MP3 (podcast)
24/02/2010 KOEPKE, Nikola
Lecturer in Economic History, All Soul's College, University of Oxford
Insights into the development of wellbeing in the very long run: Nutritional status in pre-historic and historic Europe MP3 (podcast)
26/11/2009

SØRENSEN, Thorkild
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital

Register-based research opportunities in Denmark MP3 (podcast)
18/11/2009

HARDY, Rebecca
Senior scientist, MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing; MRC National Survey of Health and Development

Obesity in the 1946 British birth cohort  
11/11/2009

CATTRELL, Annie
Independent visual artist; Senior Research Fellow in Sculpture, De Montfort University

From within MP3 (podcast)
04/11/2009

TIMPSON, Nicholas
Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol

Genetics of obesity, and the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children MP3 (iTunes)
MP3 (podcast)
20/05/2009

ALLENDER, Steven
Senior Researcher, British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group, University of Oxford

Policy interventions to prevent childhood obesity  
13/05/2009

RUTTER, Harry
Director, National Obesity Observatory, UK

Looking at the obesity system MP3 (podcast)
06/05/2009

OXLEY, Deborah
Lecturer in Social History, All Souls College, University of Oxford

BMI for historians: measuring health and gender inequality in historical populations MP3 (podcast)
29/04/2009

ULIJASZEK, Stanley
Professor of Human Ecology, Director of UBVO, University of Oxford

Networks and obesity

MP3 (iTunes)
MP3 (podcast)

11/03/2009

SACHER, Paul
Director and Head of Research & Programme Development, MEND; Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Child Health, University College London

Addressing childhood obesity using a family and community based approach: The MEND programmes MP3 (podcast)
25/02/2009

HENNEBERG, Maciej
Wood Jones Professor of Anthropological and Comparative Anatomy, University of Adelaide, Australia

Alanine transaminase is a better marker than socio-cultural factors for body mass increase in healthy males: A study of 46,000 Swiss conscripts MP3 (podcast)
11/02/2009

KISSACK, Julianne
Registered Nurse and MBA candidate, Saïd Business School, Oxford

Health promotion: behaviour change as related to obesity MP3 (podcast)
28/01/2009

BELL, Jimmy
Head of Molecular Imaging Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London

The beauty of body fat
26/11/2008

KYLE, Rosemary
Strategy Leader for Food Policy and Obesity, Sandwell Primary Care Trust

Food and obesity: are we in danger of becoming all style and no substance?
19/11/2008

SØRENSEN, Thorkild
Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital

Historical analysis of the development of the obesity epidemic List of publications available here

12/11/2008

BREWSTER, Andrew
GP and Southeast Regional Director, National Obesity Forum

Cut the Waist and BAROMETER: Answers that matter
14/05/2008

WHITLOCK, Gary
University of Oxford, Clinical Trial Service Unit

Obesity and the risk of death from particular causes: 20 000 deaths during follow-up of 1 million adults
07/05/2008

MANN, Neil
RMIT University, Australia, Department of Food Science

Paleolithic nutrition: what can we learn from the past? MP3 (podcast)
30/04/2008

WARIN, Megan
University of Durham, Department of Anthropology

The traffic in 'nature': maternal bodies and obesity Paper
23/04/2008

DREWNOWSKI, Adam
University of Washington, USA, Centre for Obesity Research

Do healthier diets cost more?
05/03/2008

MARVIN, Simon
University of Salford, Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures

Clogged cities: Sclerotic infrastructure MP3 (podcast)
Slides
27/02/2008

BADGER, Shirlene
University of Cambridge, Centre for Family Research

Extreme examples: Children in genetics of obesity research
13/02/2008

McCARTHY, David
London Metropolitan University, Institute for Health Research and Policy

General obesity or abdominal obesity - what should we be focussing upon in children?
Slides
06/02/2008

DAVEY SMITH, George
University of Bristol, Department of Social Medicine

Understanding determinants of phenotypic variation: a gloomy prospect? MP3 (podcast)
30/01/2008

JAMES, Philip
Chairman, International Obesity Task Force

International initiatives in obesity prevention MP3 (podcast)
23/01/2008

THROSBY, Karen
University of Warwick, Department of Sociology

Surgical solutions? Obesity surgery and the 'war on obesity' MP3 (podcast)
Slides
16/01/2008

RENNIE, Kirsten
Unilever Corporate Research

The role of epidemiology in obesity prevention: advantages and limitations MP3 (podcast)
28/11/2007

STUBBS, James
Slimming World and Diogenes Project

Weight loss and weight maintenance in Western consumers: current predicaments and future solutions  
26/11/2007

CARDEN-COYNE, Ana
University of Manchester, School of Arts, Histories and Cultures

Fat boobs and frumpy Victorians: Gendered bodies, modern fitness and mass culture
21/11/2007

JEBB, Susan
MRC Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge

Tackling Obesities: Future Choices  
14/11/2007

HARRIGAN, Nicholas & SNIJDERS, Tom
University of Oxford, Department of Politics and International Relations 

Social network analysis and its potential application for obesity research
07/11/2007

RAYNER, Mike & ULIJASZEK, Stanley
University of Oxford, Department of Public Health / ISCA

Explanations for why people get fat: an integral approach MP3 (iTunes)
MP3 (podcast)
Slides
13/06/2007

BERLAN, Amanda
University of Oxford, Saïd Business School

Why do calories in not equal calories out? An anthropological survey of child obesity in the UK
06/06/2007

OFFER, Avner
University of Oxford, Faculty of History

Obesity: perspectives from economics
30/05/2007

SRIDHAR, Devi
University of Oxford, Department of Politics and International Relations

The Maharaja Mac: biologised globalisation in India
23/05/2007

McPHERSON, Klim
University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Modelling obesity change in England - and consequences
16/05/2007

KOMLOS, John
University of Munich, Institute of Economic History, Department of Economics

From opulence to corpulence
02/05/2007

SPENCER, Elizabeth
University of Oxford, Cancer Research UK Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Medicine

25/04/2007

ULIJASZEK, Stanley
University of Oxford, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Models of population obesity


 

 

Items of interest

UBVO SEMINARS

The UBVO seminar series programme for Hilary Term 2012 has commenced! Check out the programme here. Don't forget that you can listen to all of the old seminars at the UBVO page in Oxford's iTunesU.

 

OPINION PAPERS ONLINE

In a new, ongoing series of opinion papers, UBVO Fellows, associates and students are invited to consider how material objects, performance art or events can help us to think about obesity in different ways. You can find the UBVO Opinion Papers here.