Danny Dorling (born 16 January 1968) is a British

social geographer Social geography is the branch of human geography that is interested in the relationships between society and space, and is most closely related to social theory in general and sociology in particular, dealing with the relation of social phenomena ...

. Since 2013, he has been Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography of the School of Geography and the Environment of the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. He is also a visiting professor in the Department of Sociology of

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, a visiting professor in the School of Social and Community Medicine of the

University of Bristol , mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'') , established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – University College, Bristol1909 – received royal charter , type ...

, a visiting fellow at the

Institute for Public Policy Research The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is a progressive think tank based in London. It was founded in 1988 and is an independent registered charity. IPPR has offices in Newcastle upon Tyne, Manchester, and Edinburgh. Funding comes from ...

, and a member of the National Advisory Panel for the Centre for Labour and Social Studies (CLASS). He is a patron of

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since 2011 and from 2007 to 2017 was the honorary president of the

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. In 1989 he became a

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(FRGS), and a

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(FRSS), in 2003 a

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(FAcSS), in 2010 a

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(FRSA), in 2014 was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the

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(HonFFPH), and in 2015 he became a senior associate member of the Royal Society of Medicine (SARSM). In 2019 he was made an (honorary) Doctor of the

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Early life and education

Born in

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, Dorling attended local state schools, including

Cheney School Cheney School is a secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Headington, Oxford, England. It serves the Headington and East Oxford area as a destination for students from primary schools across the city. Rupert Moreton, ...

, a coeducational comprehensive and was employed as a play-worker in children's summer play-schemes. Dorling graduated with a Bachelor of Science with Honours in

Geography Geography (from Greek: , ''geographia''. Combination of Greek words ‘Geo’ (The Earth) and ‘Graphien’ (to describe), literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, an ...

, Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Newcastle in 1989 and completed a PhD in th
''Visualization of Spatial Social Structure''
under the supervision of

Stan Openshaw Stan Openshaw (10 August, 1946 – 19 May, 2022) was a British geographer. His last post was professor of human geography based in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds. After eighteen years at Newcastle University, including ...

in 1991.

Academic career

From 1991 to 1993, Dorling was a

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Fellow and from 1993 to 1996 he was

British Academy The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars s ...

Fellow at the University of Newcastle. From 1996 to 2000, he was on the faculty of the School of Geographical Sciences at the

. From 2000 to 2003 he was Professor of Quantitative Human Geography at the

University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

. From 2003 to 2013 he was Professor of Human Geography and also in 2013 he was Professor for the Public Understanding of Social Science at the

University of Sheffield , mottoeng = To discover the causes of things , established = – University of SheffieldPredecessor institutions: – Sheffield Medical School – Firth College – Sheffield Technical School – University College of Sheffield , type = Pu ...

In September 2013 he became the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, attached to

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. In his inaugural lecture he spoke about the increasing disparity between Britain's richest 1% and the rest. He said: "Income inequality has now reached a new maximum and, for the first time in a century, even those just below the richest 1% are beginning to suffer, to see their disposable income drop." He has mapped (mainly using

cartogram A cartogram (also called a value-area map or an anamorphic map, the latter common among German-speakers) is a thematic map of a set of features (countries, provinces, etc.), in which their geographic size is altered to be directly proportiona ...

s), analysed and commented upon UK demographic statistics. In 2005 he co-founded the Internet-based Worldmapper project, which now has about 700 world maps and spreadsheets of international statistics. He has been on radio, television and in newspaper articles.

Views

Dorling was very supportive of

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as Labour Party leader during his leadership from September 2015 until April 2020. In May 2016, Dorling said: "Jeremy Corbyn can take on the zealots and bigots who use migration to stir up fear and hatred. His popular appeal is not based on stoking up current prejudices. It is based on conviction, love and compassion. Just how cynical do you have to be not to see the hope and possibility in that?" In May 2017 he appeared in a Labour Party political broadcast – "Labour Stands With You" – filmed by

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and published a week before the

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Reception

In February 2006, Dorling's work in human geography was described as "rummaging around" in numbers, crunching his way through reams of raw data, building up an extraordinary picture of poverty and wealth in contemporary Britain. In April 2010, an editorial in ''

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'' was entitled "In Praise of Danny Dorling".

Works

Source:

Atlases

* Dorling, D. (1995)
''A New Social Atlas of Britain''
London: John Wiley and Sons. * Champion, T., Wong, C., Rooke, A., Dorling, D., Coombes, M. and Brunsdon, B. (1996)
''The Population of Britain in the 1990s: a social and economic atlas''
Oxford: Oxford University Press. * Dorling, D. and Thomas, B. (2004)

Bristol
''Policy Press''
* Dorling, D. (2005)
''Human Geography of the UK''
2nd revised edition, cartography by Hennig, B. (2012
''The Population of the UK''
London
Sage
* Thomas, B. and Dorling, D. (2007)
''Identity in Britain: A cradle‐to‐grave atlas''
Bristol
Policy Press
* Dorling, D., Newman, M. and Barford, A. (2008, 2010)
''The Atlas of the Real World: Mapping the way we live''
London

Also translated into Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Korean. * Shaw, M., Davey Smith, G., Thomas, B., and Dorling, D. (2008)
''The Grim Reaper’s road map: an atlas of mortality in Britain''
Bristol
Policy Press
* Dorling, D. and Thomas, B. (2011)
''Bankrupt Britain: An atlas of social change''
Bristol
Policy Press
* Ballas, D., Dorling, D. and Hennig, B. (2014)
''The social atlas of Europe''
Bristol
Policy Press
* Dorling, D. and Thomas, B. (2016)

Bristol
Policy Press

Ballas, D.
Dorling, D. an
Hennig, B.
(2017)
''The Human Atlas of Europe: A continent united in diversity''
Bristol
Policy Press

Books

* Dorling, D. (1996)
''Area cartograms: their use and creation''
Concepts and Techniques in Modern Geography series no. 59, University of East Anglia: Environmental Publications. * Dorling, D. (1997)
''Death in Britain: How local mortality rates have changed: 1950s–1990s''
York
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
* Dorling, D. (2010)
''Injustice: Why social inequality persists''
Bristol
Policy Press
Extensively revised edition (2015). * Dorling, D. (2011)
''So you think you know about Britain? The surprising truth about modern Britain''
London
Constable and Robinson
* Dorling, D. (2011)

Bristol
Policy Press
* Dorling, D. (2011)
''The No-Nonsense Guide to Equality''
Oxford
New Internationalist
* Dorling, D. (2012)

Chichester

* Dorling, D. (2013)
''Unequal Health: The scandal of our times''
Bristol
Policy Press
* Dorling, D. (2013)
''The 32 Stops: lives on London’s Central Line''
London

* Dorling, D. (2013)
''Population 10 Billion: The coming demographic crisis and how to survive it''
London
Constable and Robinson
* Dorling, D. (2014)
''All that is Solid: The great housing disaster''
London

* Dorling, D. (2014)
''Inequality and the 1%''
London
Verso
* Dorling, D. (2015)
''Injustice: Why social inequality still persists''
Bristol
Policy Press
* Dorling, D. (2016)
''A Better Politics : How government can make us happier''
London
London Publishing Partnership
''A Better Politics''
Free (low resolution) version * Dorling, D. (2017)
''The Equality Effect: Improving life for everyone''
Oxford
New Internationalist
* Dorling, D. (2017)
''Do We Need Economic Equality''
Cambridge
Polity Press
* Dorling, D. (2018)
''Peak Inequality''
Bristol
Policy Press
* Dorling, D. (2020). ''Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration – and Why It's Good for the Planet, the Economy, and our Lives'', New Haven & London
Yale University Press

Collaborations

* Dorling, D. and Atkins, D. (1995)
''Population density, change and concentration in Great Britain 1971,1981 and 1991''
London:

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Office of Population Censuses and Surveys The Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS), was created in May 1970 through the merger of the General Register Office and the Government Social Survey Department. It was a forerunner and constituent, with the UK Central Statistical Of ...

. * Atkins, D., Champion, T., Coombes, M., Dorling, D. and Woodward, R. (1996)
''Urban Trends In England: Latest Evidence from the 1991 Census''
London: HMSO/

Department of the Environment An environmental ministry is a national or subnational government agency politically responsible for the environment and/or natural resources. Various other names are commonly used to identify such agencies, such as Ministry of the Environment, ...

. * Dorling, D. and Woodward, R. (1996)
''Social polarisation 1971–1991: a micro-geographical analysis of Britain''
Progress in Planning Volume 45, Issue 2. Oxford: Elsevier. * Dorling, D. and Fairbairn, D. (1997)
''Mapping: Ways of Representing the World''
London: Longman. * Bartley, M., Blane, D., Brunner, E., Dorling, D., Ferrie, J., Jarvis, M., Marmot, M., McCarthy, M., Shaw, M., Sheiham, A., Stansfeld, S., Wadsworth, M. and Wilkinson, R. (1998, 2003
''Social determinants of health: the solid facts''
Copenhagen:

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. * Gordon, D., Davey Smith, G., Dorling, D. and Shaw, M. (1999
''Inequalities in Health: the evidence, edited collection of twenty chapters''
Bristol:

Policy Press , mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'') , established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – University College, Bristol1909 – received royal charter , type ...

. * Shaw, M., Dorling, D., Gordon, D. and Davey Smith, G. (1999, 2000)
''The Widening Gap: Health inequalities and policy in Britain''
Bristol
''Policy Press''
* Dorling, D. and Simpson, S. (1999, 2000)
''Statistics in Society: the arithmetic of politics''
edited collection of over forty chapters, London: Arnold. * Mitchell, R., Dorling, D. and Shaw, M. (2000)
''Inequalities in Life and Death: What If Britain Were More Equal?''''Joseph Rowntree Foundation''
Bristol: Policy Press. * Johnston, R., Pattie, C., Rossiter, D. and Dorling, D. (2001)
''From votes to seats: The operation of the UK electoral system since 1945''Manchester University Press
* Davey Smith, G., Dorling, D. and Shaw, M. (eds) (2001)
''Poverty, inequality and health: 1800–2000 – a reader.''
Bristol
Policy Press
* Shaw, M., Dorling, D. and Mitchell, R. (2002)
''Health, Place and Society''
Harlow
Pearson Education
* Ballas, D., Rossiter, D, Thomas, B, Clarke, G.P. and Dorling, D. (2004)
''Geography matters: simulating the local impacts of national social policies''''Joseph Rowntree Foundation''
York: York Publishing Services. * Dorling, D., Ford, J., Holmans, A., Sharp, C., Thomas, B. and Wilcox, S. (2005)
''The great divide: an analysis of housing inequality''
London: Shelter. * Wheeler, B., Shaw, M., Mitchell, R. and Dorling, D. (2005)
''Life in Britain: Using Millennial Census data to understand poverty, inequality and place''
Bristol
Policy Press
* Hillyard, P., Pantazis C., Tombs, S., Gordon, D., and Dorling, D. (2005)
''Criminal Obsessions: Why Harm Matters More Than Crime''
London

* Dorling, D., Rigby, J., Wheeler, B., Ballas, D., Thomas, B., Fahmy, E., Gordon, D., and Lupton, R. (2007)
''Poverty, wealth and place in Britain, 1968 to 2005''Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Bristol: Policy Press. * Pickett, K., Melhuish, E., Dorling, D., Bambra, C., McKenzie, K., Chandola, T., Jenkins, A., Nazroo, J., Kendig, H., Phillipson, C., Maynard, A. (2014)
''″If you could do one thing...″ Nine local actions to reduce health inequalities''Speed Limits for Cars in Residential Areas, by Shops and Schools)''
London:

. * Dorling, D. an
Lee, C.
(2016)
''Geography: Ideas in Profile''
London

* Dorling, D. an
Gietel-Baston, S.
(2017)
''Why Demography Matters''
Cambridge
Polity Press
* Dorling, D. an
Tomlinson, S.
(2019
''Rule Brittania: Brexit and the end of Empire''
London
Biteback Publishing
* Dorling, D. and Koljonen, A. (2020). ''Finntopia: What We Can Learn from the World’s Happiest Country'', Newcastle & New York
Agenda publishing

Columbia University Press

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dorling, Danny 1968 births Living people English geographers Halford Mackinder Professors of Geography Academics of the University of Bristol Fellows of St Peter's College, Oxford Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences Labour Party (UK) people People educated at Cheney School