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. (2017) Political Insight, 8(1), pp. 20–21.
1303847 - In Focus: US Election 2016
Ballas, D., Dorling, D. and Hennig, B. (2017) Regional Studies, 51(1), pp. 174–185.
656973 - Analysing the regional geography of poverty, auste...
Hennig, B. (2016) Political Insight, 7(3), pp. 20–21.
1303832 - In Focus: Trade Inside the European Union
Hennig, B. and Dorling, D. (2016) Political Insight, 7(2), pp. 20–21.
1303821 - In Focus: The EU Referendum
Hennig, B. and Dorling, D. (2016) Political Insight, 7(1), pp. 20–21.
606899 - In focus: where art meets science
Hennig, B. and Dorling, D. (2016) Bulletin of the Society of Cartographers, 49, pp. 31–40.
Hennig, B. (2016) in Carver, S. and Fritz, S. (eds.) Mapping Wilderness. Springer Netherlands, pp. 103–116.
606900 - Visualising spaces of global inaccessibility
Hennig, B. (2016) in Onsrud, H. and Kuhn, W. (eds.) Advancing geographic information science. The past and next twenty years. GSDI Association Press, pp. 153–168.
Dorling, D. and Hennig, B. (2016) Cultural Trends, 25(1), pp. 35–46.
598410 - London and the English desert ? the geography of c...
Hennig, B., Winter, S., Lopez, X., Harvey, F., Jeong, M.-H., Trainor, T. and Timpf, S. (2016) in Onsrud, H. and Kuhn, W. (eds.) Advancing Geographic Information Science. GSDI Association Press, pp. 35–44.