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• 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 Contemporary Research Issues, York Publishing Services, York. ISBN: 1 85935 265 0. View PDF PDF
• Boyle, P. and Dorling, D. (2004) Editorial: the 2001 UK census: remarkable resource or bygone legacy of the 'pencil and paper era'? Area 36(2): 101-110. View PDF PDF
• Dorling, D. (2004) Distressed Times and Areas: Poverty, Polarisation and Politics in England 1918- circa 1971. In, Baker, A.R.H. and Billinge, M. (eds.) Geographies of England: The North-South Divide, Material and Imagined. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. View PDF PDF
• Dorling, D. (2004) Healthy places, healthy spaces. British Medical Bulletin, 69(1): 101-114. View PDF PDF
• Dorling, D. (2004) Healthy Spaces, health places. Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network Research Bulletin, 133. View PDF PDF
• Dorling, D. (2004) Letters: Top up fees and medicine: Waive repayments completely if working life is spent in the NHS. British Medical Journal, 328: 712. View PDF PDF
• Dorling, D. (2004) Two Nations? The House Magazine: The parliamentary weekly, 29: 25. View PDF PDF
• Dorling, D. and Pattie, C. (2004) Editorial: Smile, be happy. Environment and Planning A, 36, 761-762. View PDF PDF
• Dorling, D. and Rees, P. (2004) A nation dividing? Some interpretations of the question. Environment and Planning A, 36(2): 369-373. View PDF PDF
• Dorling, D. and Thomas, B. (2004) People and Places: A census atlas of the UK. Bristol: Policy Press. pp. 224. ISBN: 1 86134 555 0. View PDF PDF
• Higgs, G., Williams, C. and Dorling, D. (2004) Use of the census of population to discern trends in the Welsh language: an aggregate analysis. Area, 36(2): 187-201. View PDF PDF
• Keylock, C.J. and Dorling, D. (2004) What kind of quantitative methods for what kind of Geography? Area, 36(4): 358-366. View PDF PDF
• Middleton, N., Whitley, E., Frankel, S., Dorling, D. and Gunnell, D. (2004) Suicide risk in small-areas of England and Wales 1991-1993. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 39(1): 45-52. View PDF PDF
• Seyan, K., Greenhalgh, T. and Dorling, D. (2004) The standardised admission ratio for measuring widening participation in medical schools: analysis of UK medical school admissions by ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and sex. British Medical Journal, 328: 1545-1546. View PDF PDF
• Shaw, M. and Dorling, D. (2004) Who cares in England and Wales? The Positive Care Law: Cross-sectional study. British Journal of General Practice, 54(509): 899-903. View PDF PDF
• Thomas, B. and Dorling, D. (2004) Advances in the human cartography of the UK. The Cartographic Journal, 41(2): 109-115. View PDF PDF
• Thomas, B. and Dorling, D. (2004) Endpiece: Mapping changes and the 2001 census for the UK. Area, 36(2). CD and web version. View PDF PDF
• Tunstall, H.V.Z., Shaw, M. and Dorling, D. (2004) Places and health. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 58(1): 6-10. View PDF PDF

• Dorling, D. (2003) A century of progress? Inequalities in British society, 1901-2000. Chapter 2 in, Gilbert, D., Matless, D. and Short, B. (eds.) Geographies of British Modernity: Space and society in the twentieth century, Part 1. Oxford: Blackwells. pp. 31-53. View PDF PDF
• Dorling, D. and Gunnell, D. (2003) Suicide: the spatial and social components of despair in Britain 1980-2000. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 28(4): 442-460. View PDF PDF
• Dorling, D. and Rees, P. (2003) A nation ever more divided. Town and Country Planning, 72(9): 270. View PDF PDF
• Dorling, D. and Rees, P.H. (2003) A nation still dividing: The British census and social polarisation 1971-2001. Environment and Planning A, 35(7): 1287-1313. View PDF PDF
• Dorling, D. and Ward, N. (2003) Commentary: Social Science, public policy, and the search for happiness. Environment and Planning A, 35(6): 954-957. View PDF PDF
• Gunnell, D., Middleton, N., Whitley, E., Dorling, D. and Frankel, S. (2003) Influence of cohort effects on patterns of suicide in England and Wales, 1950-1999. British Journal of Psychiatry, 182(2): 164-170. View PDF PDF
• Gunnell, D., Middleton, N., Whitley, E., Dorling, D. and Frankel, S. (2003) Why are suicide rates rising in young men but falling in the elderly? - a time-series analysis of trends in England and Wales 1950-1998. Social Science and Medicine, 57(4): 595-611. View PDF PDF
• Johnston, R., Pattie, C., Dorling, D. and Rossiter, D. (2003) The Conservative Century? Geography and Conservative Electoral Success during the Twentieth Century. Chapter 3 in, Gilbert, D., Matless, D. and Short, B. (eds.) Geographies of British Modernity: Space and society in the twentieth century. Oxford: Blackwells. pp. 54-79. View PDF PDF
• Middleton, N., Gunnell, D., Frankel, S., Whitley, E. and Dorling, D. (2003) Urban-rural differences in suicide trends in young adults: England and Wales, 1981-1998. Social Science and Medicine, 57(7): 1183-1194. View PDF PDF
• Mitchell, G. and Dorling, D. (2003) An environmental justice analysis of British air quality. Environment and Planning A, 35(5): 909-929. View PDF PDF
• Mitchell, R., McCrae, M., Dorling, D. and Shaw, M. (2003) Nasty, brutish and short - or healthy, wealthy and long? Health Matters, 53: 13-14. View PDF PDF
• Orford, S., Dorling, D. and Harris, R. (2003) Cartography and visualization. Chapter 27 in, Rogers, A. and Viles, H.A. (eds.) The Student's Companion to Geography, 2nd Edition. Blackwells, Oxford. pp. 151-156. ISBN: 0-631-22132-8. View PDF PDF
• Rees, P., Brown, D., Norman, P. and Dorling, D. (2003) Are socioeconomic inequalities in mortality decreasing or increasing within some British regions? An observational study, 1990-1998. Journal of Public Health Medicine, 25(3): 208-214. View PDF PDF

• Davey Smith, G., Dorling, D., Mitchel, R. and Shaw, M. (2002) Health inequalities in Britain: continuing increases up to the end of the 20th century. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 56: 434-435. View PDF PDF
• Dixie, J. and Dorling, D. (2002) New questions for the 2001 Census. Chapter 20 in, Rees, P.H., Martin, D. and Williamson, P. (eds.) The Census Data System, 2002, Part VI, Planning for 2001 Census Outputs, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester. pp 283-293. View PDF PDF
• Dorling, D. (2002) Researching poverty. Progress in Human Geography, 26(1): 119-120. View PDF PDF
• Dorling, D. and Shaw, M. (2002) Geographies of the agenda: public policy, the discipline and its (re)'turns'. Progress in Human Geography, 26(5): 629-646. View PDF PDF
• Dorling, D., Eyre, H., Johnston, R. and Pattie, C. (2002) A good place to bury bad news? Hiding the detail in the Geography on the Labour Party's website. The Political Quarterly, 73,(4): 476-492. View PDF PDF
• Dykes, J., Carter, J. and Dorling, D. (2002) Visualizing census data. Chapter 7 in, Rees, P.H., Martin, D. and Williamson, P. (eds.) The Census Data System, 2002, Part II, Boundary Data and Visualization. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester. pp. 97-110. View PDF PDF
• Harris, J., Dorling, D., Owen, D., Coombes, M. and Wilson, T. (2002) Lookup tables and new area statistics for the 1971, 1981 and 1991 Censuses. Chapter 5 in, Rees, P.H., Martin, D. and Williamson, P. (eds.) The Census Data System, 2002, Part 1, Geography and Lookup Tables, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester. pp 67-82. View PDF PDF
• Johnston, R., Rossiter, D., Pattie, C. and Dorling, D. (2002) Distortion Magnified: New Labour and the British electoral system, 1950-2001. In, Bennie, L. et al. (eds.) British Elections and Parties Review, Volume 12, London: Frank Cass. pp. 133-155. View PDF PDF
• Johnston, R., Rossiter, D., Pattie, C. and Dorling, D. (2002) Labour electoral landslides and the changing efficiency of voting distributions. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 27(3): 336-361. ISSN 0020-2754. View PDF PDF
• Martin, D., Dorling, D. and Mitchell, R. (2002) Linking censuses through time: problems and solutions. Area, 34(1): 82-91. View PDF PDF
• Macfarlane, A., Heyman, B., Dorling, D., Gordon, D., Davey-Smith, G., Dolk, H., Roberts, H., Basnett, I., Roberts, I., Lewis, J., Popay, J., McKee, M., Mugford, M., Barker, R., Raine, R., Baldwin, S., Glen, S., Platt, S. and She, T. (2002) Response: Select committee's report used parliamentary privilege unacceptably. British Medical Journal, 324: 1584. View PDF PDF
• Mitchell, R., Martin, D., Dorling, D. and Simpson, S. (2002) Bringing the missing million home: correcting the 1991 SAS for undercount. Environment and Planning A, 34(6): 1021-1035. View PDF PDF
• Mitchell, R. and Dorling, D. (2002) Poverty, inequality and social inclusion in the New Scotland. In, Warhurst, C. and Hassan, G. (eds.) Tomorrow's Scotland. London: Lawrence and Wishart. View PDF PDF
• Mitchell, R., Dorling, D. and Shaw, M. (2002) Population production and modelling mortality - an application of Geographic Information Systems in health inequalities research. Health and Place, 8(1): 15-24. View PDF PDF
• Orford, S., Dorling, D., Mitchell, R., Shaw, M. and Davey-Smith, G. (2002) Life and death of the people of London: A historical GIS of Charles Booth's inquiry. Health and Place, 8(1): 25-35. View PDF PDF
• Shaw, M., Dorling, D. and Davey Smith, G. (2002) Editorial: Mortality and political climate: how suicide rates have risen during periods of Conservative government, 1901-2000. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 56(10): 722-727. View PDF PDF
• Shaw, M., Dorling, D. and Mitchell, R. (2002) Health, Place and Society. Harlow: Pearson Education, pp. 232. ISBN: 9780130164551. View PDF PDF

• Davey Smith, G., Dorling, D. and Shaw, M. (eds) (2001) Poverty, Inequality and Health: 1800-2000 - a reader. Bristol: Policy Press. 464 pp. ISBN 9781861342119. View PDF PDF
• Davey Smith, G., Shaw, M. and Dorling, D. (2001) Population change and mortality in men and women. Journal of Epidemiology Community Health, 55(1): 772. View PDF PDF
• Davey-Smith, G., Whitley, E., Dorling, D. and Gunnell, D. (2001) Area based measures of social and economic circumstances: cause specific mortality patterns depend on the choice of index. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 55(2): 149-150. View PDF PDF
• Dorling, D. (2001) Anecdote is the singular of data Environment and Planning A, 33(8): 1335-1340. View PDF PDF
• Dorling, D. and Simpson, L. (2001) The geography of poverty: a political map of poverty under New Labour. New Economy, 8(2): 87-91. View PDF PDF
• Dorling, D., Davey-Smith, G. and Shaw, M. (2001) Analysis of trends in premature mortality by Labour voting in the 1997 general election. British Medical Journal, 322: 1336-1337. View PDF PDF
• Dorling, D., Martin, D. and Mitchell, R. (2001) Final Report to ESRC project on Linking Censuses Through Time. Leeds, Southampton and Edinburgh. View PDF PDF
• Dorling, D., Smith, G., Noble, M., Wright, G., Burrows, R., Bradshaw, J., Joshi, H., Pattie, C., Mitchell, R., Green, A.E. and McCulloch, A. (2001) How much does place matter? Environment and Planning A, 33(8): 1335-1369. View PDF PDF
• Gregory, I., Dorling, D. and Southall, H. (2001) A century of inequality in England and Wales using standardised geographical units. Area, 33(3): 297-311. View PDF PDF
• Johnston, R., Pattie, C., Dorling, D., MacAllister, I., Tunstall, H. and Rossiter, D. (2001) Housing tenure, local context, scale and voting in England and Wales, 1997. Electoral Studies, 20, 195-216. View PDF PDF
• 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. 272 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7190-5852-3. View PDF PDF
• Johnston, R.J., Pattie, C., Dorling, D. and Rossiter, D. (2001) Fifty years of bias in the UK's electoral System. APSA: Elections, Public Opinion and Voting Behaviour Section Website. View PDF PDF
• Johnston, R.J., Pattie, C.J., Dorling, D., MacAllister, I., Tunstall, H. and Rossiter, D.J. (2001) Social locations, spatial locations and voting at the 1997 British general election: evaluating the sources of conservative support. Political Geography, 1(1): 85-111, ISSN: 0962-6298. View PDF PDF
• MacAllister, I., Johnston, R., Pattie, C., Tunstall, H., Dorling, D. and Rossiter, D. (2001) Class dealignment and the neighbourhood effect: Miller revisited British Journal of Political Science, 31(1): 41-59. View PDF PDF
• Middleton, N., Gunnell, D., Whitley, E., Dorling, D. and Frankel, S. (2001) Secular trends in antidepressant prescribing in the UK, 1975-1998: Do prescribing patterns reflect changes in population mental health? Journal of Public Health Medicine, 23(4): 262-267. View PDF PDF
• Mitchell, R., Dorling, D. and Martin, D. (2001) Making Sense of the Census: A new means to access census data from 1971-1991 and on to 2001. Chief Scientist Office, Research Matters, Issue 16. View PDF PDF
• Shaw, M., Dorling, D. and Davey-Smith, G. (2001) Did things get better for Labour voters: premature death rates and voting in the 1997 election. University of Bristol, Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research. View PDF PDF
• Shaw, M., Dorling, D., Gordon, D. and Davey Smith, G. (2001) Putting time, person and place together: the temporal, social and spatial accumulation of health inequality. Critical Public Health, 11(4): 289-304. View PDF PDF
• Shaw, M., Dorling, D., Gordon, G. and Davey Smith, G. (2001) Health and Policy - Children in Britain 2000. Chapter 6 in Fimister, G. (ed.) Poverty: Whatever Next? CPAG, London. View PDF PDF

• Brimblecombe, N., Dorling, D. and Shaw, M. (2000) Migration and geographical inequalities in health in Britain: an exploration of the lifetime socio-economic characteristics of migrants. Social Science and Medicine, 50(6): 861-878. View PDF PDF
• Davey Smith, G., Shaw, M., Mitchell, R., Dorling, D. and Gordon, D. (2000) Refereed Letter, Inequalities in health continue to grow despite government's pledges. British Medical Journal, 320, 582. View PDF PDF
• Dorling D. and Shaw, M. (2000) Life chances and lifestyles. Chapter 12 in V. Gardiner and H. Matthews (eds.) The Changing Geography of the UK. London: Routledge. pp. 230-260. ISBN: 0-415-17901-7. View PDF PDF
• Dorling, D. (2000) A mortality league table for Cabinet ministers? In C. Pantazis and D. Gordon (eds.) Tackling Inequalities: Where are we now and what can be done? Bristol: Policy Press. pp. 181-210. ISBN 1 86134 1466. View PDF PDF
• Dorling, D. and Clarke, G. (2000) Commentary: The human geography of human geography. Environment and Planning A, 32(11): 1901-1904. View PDF PDF
• Dorling, D., Mitchell, R., Shaw, M., Orford, S. and Davey Smith, G. (2000) The Ghost of Christmas Past: Health effects of poverty in London in 1896 and 1991. British Medical Journal, 321: 23-30, December 2000. 1547-1551. View PDF PDF
• Dorling, D., Shaw, M. and Brimblecombe, N. (2000) Housing, wealth and community health: exploring the role of migration. In, H. Graham (ed.) Understanding Health Inequalities. Open University Press, Buckingham. pp 186-199. ISBN: 0 335 20553 4. View PDF PDF
• Gordon, D. and Dorling, D. (2000) Appendix 1: Environment and Health. In, Seymour, J. for UNED-UK, Poverty in Plenty: a Human Development Report for the UK. Earthscan Publications Ltd, London. ISBN: 1 85383 707 5. View PDF PDF
• Gregory, I, Southall, H. and Dorling, D. (2000) A century of poverty in England and Wales, 1898-1998: a geographical analysis. In, Bradshaw, J. and Sainsbury, R. (eds.) Researching Poverty. Ashgate Publishing Ltd. ISBN: 0 7546 1287 2. View PDF PDF
• Johnston, R., Pattie, C., Dorling, D., MacAllister, I., Tunstall, H. and Rossiter, D. (2000) Local context, retrospective economic evaluations and voting: the 1997 General Election in England and Wales. Political Behaviour, 22(2), 121-143. View PDF PDF
• Johnston, R., Pattie, C., Dorling, D., MacAllister, I., Tunstall, H. and Rossiter, D. (2000) The neighbourhood effect and voting in England and Wales: Real or imagined? In, Cowley, P., Denver, D., Russell, A. and Harrison, L. (eds.) British Elections and Parties Review, Volume 10. Frank Cass, London. ISBN: 0 7146 5096 X. View PDF PDF
• Johnston, R., Pattie, C., Dorling, D., Tunstall, H., Rossiter, D., and MacAllister, I. (2000) Locating the altruistic voter: context, egocentric voting, and support for the Conservative party at the 1997 general election in England and Wales. Environment and Planning A, 32(4): 673-694. View PDF PDF
• Middleton, N., Gunnell, D., Frankel, S., Whiltley, E. and Dorling, D. (2000) Explanations for the rise in youth suicide: a European perspective (abstract). Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 54: 796. View PDF PDF
• Middleton, N., Gunnell, D., Frankel, S., Whiltley, E. and Dorling, D. (2000) Urban-rural differences in the rise in youth suicide in England and Wales (abstract). Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 54: 796. View PDF PDF
• Mitchell, R., Dorling, D. and Shaw, M. (2000) Inequalities in life and death - what if Britain were more equal? Technical report for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Universities of Bristol and Leeds. View PDF PDF
• Mitchell, R., Dorling, D. and Shaw, M. (2000) Inequalities in life and death: what if Britain were more equal? Bristol: Policy Press. ISBN: 1 86134 2349. View PDF PDF
• O'Neale Roach, J. and Dorling, D. (2000) Recruiting the wrong students. studentBMJ, 8: 178-179. View PDF PDF
• Shaw, M., Orford S., Brimblecombe, N. and Dorling, D. (2000) Widening inequality in mortality between 160 regions of 15 countries of the European Union. Social Science and Medicine 50(7-8): 1047-1058. View PDF PDF
• Shaw, M., Dorling, D. and Grundy, J. (2000) Surveying the population: health topics in the census of population and other surveys. In, Kerrison, S. and Macfarlane, A. (eds.) Official Health Statistics: An unofficial guide. Arnold: London. pp. 14-38. ISBN: 0 340 73132. View PDF PDF
• Shaw, M., Dorling, D., Gordon, D. and Davey Smith, D. (2000) The Widening Gap: the social and spatial accumulation of health inequalities. In, Forbes, I. (ed.) Health Inequalities: poverty and policy. Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences. 6, 50-59. ISBN: 0-9540097-1-1. View PDF PDF
• Shaw, M., Gordon, D., Dorling, D., Mitchell, R. and Davey Smith, G. (2000) Increasing mortality differentials by residential area level of poverty: Britain 1981-1997. Social Science and Medicine, 51(1): 151-153. View PDF PDF
• Shaw, M., Mitchell, R. and Dorling, D. (2000) Time for a smoke: one cigarette is equivalent to 11 minutes of life expectancy. British Medical Journal, 320: 53. View PDF PDF
• Tunstall, H., Rossiter, D., Pattie, C., MacAllister, I., Johnston, R. and Dorling, D. (2000) Geographical scale, the 'feel-good-factor' and voting at the 1997 general election in England and Wales. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 25(1): 51-64. View PDF PDF

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