Danny Dorling


Danny Dorling is a British social geographer. He is currently 1971 Professor of Geography attached to St Peter's College at the University of Oxford; a post he has held since appointed in September 2013.
Dorling is a visiting professor in the Department of Sociology of Goldsmiths, University of London, a visiting professor in the School of Social and Community Medicine of the University of Bristol, a visiting fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research, a member of the National Advisory Panel for the policy Thinktank, and since 2011, a patron of RoadPeace.
Dorling became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in 1989, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2003, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2010, an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health in 2014, a senior associate member of the Royal Society of Medicine in 2015, and an honorary Doctor of the University of York in 2019.
From 2007 to 2017 Dorling was the honorary president of the Society of Cartographers.
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Early life and education

Born in Oxford, Dorling attended local state schools, including Cheney School, 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, Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Newcastle in 1989 and completed a PhD in the under the supervision of Stan Openshaw in 1991.

Academic career

From 1991 to 1993, Dorling was a Joseph Rowntree Foundation Fellow and from 1993 to 1996 he was British Academy Fellow at the University of Newcastle. From 1996 to 2000, he was on the faculty of the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol. From 2000 to 2003 he was Professor of Quantitative Human Geography at the 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.
In Dorling's inaugural lecture as Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography in September 2013 he spoke about the increasing disparity between Britain's majority and its richest 1%. 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."
Dorling has mapped, analysed and commented upon UK demographic statistics. In 2005 he co-founded the Internet-based project, which now has about 700 world maps and spreadsheets of international statistics. He has spoken on radio, featured on television and written newspaper articles.

Views

Dorling was very supportive of Jeremy Corbyn 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 Ken Loach and published a week before the 2017 United Kingdom general election.

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 The Guardian was entitled "In Praise of Danny Dorling".

Works

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Atlases

  • Dorling, D.., London: John Wiley and Sons.
  • Champion, T., Wong, C., Rooke, A., Dorling, D., Coombes, M. and Brunsdon, B.., Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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  • Dorling, D.. . 2nd revised edition, cartography by Hennig, B., London: .
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  • Dorling, D., Newman, M. and Barford, A.., London: . Also translated into Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Korean.
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Books

  • Dorling, D.., Concepts and Techniques in Modern Geography series no. 59, University of East Anglia: Environmental Publications.
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  • Dorling, D. The next crisis: what we think about the future, https://dannydorling.org/books/thenextcrisis/
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Collaborations

  • Dorling, D. and Atkins, D.., London: HMSO/Office of Population Censuses and Surveys.
  • Atkins, D., Champion, T., Coombes, M., Dorling, D. and Woodward, R.., London: HMSO/Department of the Environment.
  • Dorling, D. and Woodward, R.., Progress in Planning Volume 45, Issue 2. Oxford: Elsevier.
  • Dorling, D. and Fairbairn, D.., 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., Copenhagen: World Health Organization.
  • Gordon, D., Davey Smith, G., Dorling, D. and Shaw, M., Bristol: Policy Press.
  • Shaw, M., Dorling, D., Gordon, D. and Davey Smith, G.., Bristol: .
  • Dorling, D. and Simpson, S.., edited collection of over forty chapters, London: Arnold.
  • Mitchell, R., Dorling, D. and Shaw, M..,, Bristol: Policy Press.
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  • Davey Smith, G., Dorling, D. and Shaw, M. ., Bristol: .
  • Shaw, M., Dorling, D. and Mitchell, R.., Harlow: .
  • Ballas, D., Rossiter, D, Thomas, B, Clarke, G.P. and Dorling, D..,, York: York Publishing Services.
  • Dorling, D., Ford, J., Holmans, A., Sharp, C., Thomas, B. and Wilcox, S.., London: Shelter.
  • Wheeler, B., Shaw, M., Mitchell, R. and Dorling, D.., Bristol: .
  • Hillyard, P., Pantazis C., Tombs, S., Gordon, D., and Dorling, D.., London: .
  • Dorling, D., Rigby, J., Wheeler, B., Ballas, D., Thomas, B., Fahmy, E., Gordon, D., and Lupton, R..,, 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.., London: British Academy.
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  • Dorling, D. and Koljonen, A.. Finntopia: What We Can Learn from the World’s Happiest Country, Newcastle & New York: / .