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Dear List members,
We would like to invite you to attend the second 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 four exciting speakers from the UK (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.
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 2: Food environments, food cultures and obesity
Date: Tuesday July 3rd 2007
Venue: CABE, 1 Kemble Street, London WC2B 4AN
Website:http://www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/obesity/
Interest in how social and physical environmental characteristics may
influence physical activity behaviour and obesity is relatively recent.
Most research in this relatively new field has been conducted in the USA
and Australia, with fewer studies in Europe and the UK. Two recent
reviews have summarised findings from studies of the local environment
and physical activity in adults (Humpel et al 2002, Duncan et al 2005).
Several broad categories of environmental characteristics or constructs
were reported to have shown some association with physical activity;
accessibility of facilities (both for physical activity and also shops
and services), opportunities for activity (e.g. presence of pavements),
safety (traffic, injury and crime) and aesthetic attributes. Structural
features of the built environment, such as walkability or connectivity,
residential density and land-use mix, previously the exclusive domain of
urban planning and transport researchers, have also begun to capture the
interest of other researchers, and the International Physical Activity
and the Environment Network (http://www.ipenproject.org/) is encouraging
work in this area. The existing literature on environmental influences
on physical activity and obesity also includes very few studies of
children or adolescents, and even in adults, social, gender and ethnic
differences are as yet under-researched. This seminar will explore how
these environmental, in combination with which individual-level factors,
explain physical activity behaviour and obesity.
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12.45 Registration
1.15 Introduction & Welcome
Dr Tessa Parsons
Institute of Child Health, University College London
1.20
Professor Catharine Ward Thompson
OPENspace Research Centre, Edinburgh College of Art Outdoor Environments
and Healthy Activity
2.00
Professor Roger Mackett
Centre for Transport Studies, University College London Understanding
children’s travel and activity behaviour in the local environment
2.40 Tea
3.20
Professor Rachel Davey
Centre for Sport and Exercise Research, Staffordshire University Social
ecological mapping of physical activity behaviours and health outcomes
in deprived inner-city communities
4.00
Dr Andy Jones
School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia Correlates
and beyond - Unanswered questions
4.40 Panel Discussion
5.15 Close
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