Archive of previous seminars

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

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Date presented	Presenter	Title	Links
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	MP3
11/11/2009	CATTRELL, Annie Independent visual artist; Senior Research Fellow in Sculpture, De Montfort University	From within	MP3
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	MP3
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
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
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
30/01/2008	JAMES, Philip Chairman, International Obesity Task Force	International initiatives in obesity prevention	MP3
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	MP3
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	MP3
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

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