Dear all

For UK based list members!

First part of an ESRC Seminar series that colleagues and I in London are 
organising.

Steve Cummins, Geography, Queen Mary, University of London

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Dear List Members

ESRC Seminar Series: Obesity - understanding the role of the social and
physical environment

Seminar 1: Food environments, food cultures and obesity
Date: January 17th 2006
Venue: The Kings Fund, London

We would like to invite you to attend the first in a series of four ESRC
funded seminars on the social and physical environment and obesity
jointly convened by researchers at Queen Mary and University College,
University of London.

We have three exciting speakers from the UK and Europe (details below)
and there will be ample time for debate and discussion on the day.

The seminars are free to attend and there are a limited number of travel
bursaries available for postgraduate researchers to attend.

However we do have a limited number of places so registration is
essential. Places are on a first-come first-served basis and a waiting
list will be in operation.

For further details of the seminar and a booking form please contact
Sarah Deedat on [log in to unmask]

Please circulate to colleagues, students and others with interests in
this area

Best wishes

Steve Cummins, Tessa Parsons, Sharon Friel

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Seminar 1: Food environments, food cultures and obesity

Wednesday 17th January, 2007
Kings Fund, London, 12-4pm

A recent review on the role of the food environment in the development
of obesity has noted that there exists a substantial knowledge gaps over
how much the food environment matters for obesity, both within and
between developed nations (Cummins & Macintyre, 2006). Hypotheses have
tended to focus on physical opportunities for food consumption (within
and outside the home) and environmental cues for the consumption of
unhealthy food through advertising and promotion within the
neighbourhood, school and workplace but there has been little work that
directly assesses these environmental risks with measures of obesity or
investigates the role of social networks, peer groups, culture and
context in the generation of unhealthy eating behaviours. This seminar
will stimulate cross-disciplinary discussions about how different types
of physical (neighbourhood, home, school, workplace) and social
(families, peer groups, networks and cultures) environments might affect
food and eating and how these environments may interact to promote obesity.

Speakers
Professor Johannes Brug, Department of Public Health, Erasmus University
Medical Centre, Netherlands
"What is the evidence for an obesogenic food environment?"

Dr Amelia Lake, Human Nutrition Research Centre, University of
Newcastle, UK; Dr Tim Townshend, Global Urban Research Unit, University
of Newcastle. UK
"A glimpse into the food environments of young adults: perceptions &
observations"

Dr Penny Curtis, Department of Midwifery & Children's Nursing,
University of Sheffield, UK; Dr Pamela Fisher, Informatics Collaboratory
for the Social Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK
Title TBA

-- 
Steven Cummins MSc PhD
MRC Fellow
Department of Geography
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS

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