Dr Benjamin D. Hennig

Honorary Research Associate

Academic Profile

Benjamin works on spatial data analysis and geovisualisation. His research interests include social and spatial inequalities, humanity's impact on Earth, global sustainability and new concepts for the visualisation of these issues.

Benjamin was educated at the Universities of Cologne and Bonn and the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (Bremerhaven/Germany) where he conducted research on hyperspectral remote sensing applications in coastal ecosystems. After working as a research associate and departmental lecturer in human and urban geography at the Department of Geography, University of Cologne (Germany) he joined the Social and Spatial Inequalities Research Group at the University of Sheffield (UK) in 2008 where he completed his PhD in 2011 as part of the Worldmapper project with research on visualising the social dimensions of our planet. He continued working at the Department of Geography in Sheffield before joining the University of Oxford as a Senior Research Fellow in 2013. In September 2016 he joined the University of Iceland and remains an Associate in the University of Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment.

Further information about his work can be found on his personal website: https://geoviews.net.

Selected Publications

Hennig, B. (2021) Political Insight, 12(1), pp. 20–21.
1303841 - In Focus: Trump Tweets: Power and the Global Polit...
Ponsioen, L., Kapralova, K., Holm, F., García Martínez, S. and Hennig, B. (2021) bioRxiv.
1303827 - Monitoring fish spawning sites in freshwater ecosy...
Hennig, B. (2020) Political Insight, 11(4), pp. 18–19.
1303835 - In Focus: How Joe Biden Won the White House
Fernandes, A., Bastawrous, A., Ferraz, N., Hennig, B., Lima, V., Viana, R., Campos, M. and Furtado, J. (2020) British journal of sports medicine, pp. bjsports–2020.
1303840 - Eye clinic attendance at the olympic and paralympi...
Hennig, B. and Ballas, D. (2020) Political Insight, 11(3), pp. 20–21.
1303850 - In Focus: Nationality, Citizenship and Refugees: A...
Hennig, B. (2020) Political Insight, 11(2), pp. 20–21.
1303853 - COVID-19?s Spread Across the World
Hennig, B. (2020) Political Insight, 11(1), pp. 22–23.
1303845 - In Focus: Margins of Victory in 2019
Hennig, B. (2019) Political Insight, 10(4), pp. 20–21.
1303839 - In Focus: Poverty in the Developing World
Hennig, B. (2019) Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, 51(6), pp. 1209–1212.
1303851 - The growth and decline of urban agglomerations in ...
Hennig, B. (2019) Political Insight, 10(2), pp. 20–21.
1303848 - Inequalities of Gender: Education, work, and polit...