Professor Danny Dorling

Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography

Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford

Academic Profile

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Danny Dorling joined the School of Geography and the Environment in September 2013 to take up the Halford Mackinder Professorship in Geography. He was previously a professor of Geography at the University of Sheffield. He has also worked in Newcastle, Bristol, Leeds and New Zealand, went to university in Newcastle upon Tyne, and to school in Oxford.

Much of Danny's work is available open access (see www.dannydorling.org). With a group of colleagues he helped create the website www.worldmapper.org which shows who has most and least in the world. His work concerns issues of housing, health, employment, education, wealth and poverty. His recent books include, co-authored texts: The Atlas of the Real World: Mapping the way we live; Bankrupt Britain: An atlas of social change; Rule Britannia: Brexit and the end of empire; and Finntopia: what we can learn from the world's happiest country.

Sole authored books include, So you think you know about Britain and Fair Play, both in 2011; in 2012 The No-nonsense Guide to Equality, The Visualization of Social Spatial Structure and The Population of the UK; Unequal Health, The 32 Stops and Population Ten Billion in 2013; All That is Solid in 2014; and Injustice: Why social inequalities persist revised in 2015. In 2016 with Bethan Thomas he authored People and Places: A 21st century atlas of the UK, A Better Politics: How government can make us happier and with Carl Lee: Geography: ideas in profile. In 2017 with Dimitris Ballas and Ben Hennig he produced The Human Atlas of Europe and also wrote the sole authored book The Equality Effect: Improving life for everyone. In 2018 he edited Peak Inequality: Britain's ticking time bomb. In 2020 he published Slowdown: the end of the great acceleration - and why it's good for the planet, the economy, and our lives. Due out in 2023 is his latest book: Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of a Failing State.

Before a career in academia Danny was employed as a play-worker in children's play-schemes and in pre-school education where the underlying rationale was that playing is learning for living. He tries not to forget this. He is an Academician of the Academy of the Learned Societies in the Social Sciences, a former Honorary President of the Society of Cartographers and a current patron of Roadpeace, the national charity for road crash victims.

Selected Publications

BOOK
Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of a Failing State
Authors
Dorling, D. (Sept, 2023)
Verso Books
ISBN:
180429327X
Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of a Failing State
BOOK
Finntopia: what we can learn from the world's happiest country
Authors
Dorling, D. and Koljonen, A. (2021)
Agenda publishing / Columbia University Press, Newcastle and New York
ISBN:
978-1788212168
Finntopia: what we can learn from the world's happiest country
BOOK
Slowdown: the end of the great acceleration - and why it's good for the planet, the economy, and our lives
Authors
Dorling, D. (2020)
New Haven and London: Yale University Press
ISBN:
978-0300243406
Slowdown: the end of the great acceleration - and why it's good for the planet, the economy, and our lives
BOOK
Inequality and the 1%, 3rd Edition
Authors
Dorling, D. (2019)
Verso Books
ISBN:
9781788736473
Inequality and the 1%
BOOK
Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire
Authors
Dorling, D. and Tomlinson, S. (2019)
Biteback Publishing, London
ISBN:
9781785904530
Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire
BOOK
Peak Inequality: Britain's ticking timebomb
Authors
Dorling, D. (2018)
Policy Press, Bristol
ISBN:
978-1447349075
Peak Inequality: Britain's ticking timebomb
BOOK
Do we need economic inequality?
Authors
Dorling, D. (2018)
Polity
ISBN:
978-1-5095-1655-1
Do we need economic inequality?
BOOK
Why Demography Matters
Authors
Dorling, D. and Gietel-Basten, S. (2018)
Polity
ISBN:
978-0-7456-9841-0
Why Demography Matters
BOOK
The Equality Effect: Improving life for everyone
Authors
Dorling, D. (2017)
New Internationalist
ISBN:
978-1-78026-3908
The Equality Effect: Improving life for everyone
BOOK
The Human Atlas of Europe: A continent united in diversity
Authors
Ballas, D., Dorling, D. and Hennig, B. (2017)
Policy Press
ISBN:
978-1447313540
The Human Atlas of Europe: A continent united in diversity
BOOK
Geography: Ideas in Profile
Authors
Dorling, D. and Lee, C. (2016)
Profile Books
ISBN:
9781781255308
Geography: Ideas in Profile
BOOK
A Better Politics: How Government Can Make Us Happier
Authors
Dorling, D. (2016)
London Publishing Partnership
A Better Politics: How Government Can Make Us Happier
BOOK
People and places: A 21st-century atlas of the UK
Authors
Dorling, D. and Thomas, B. (2016)
Policy Press, University of Bristol
ISBN:
9781447311362
People and places: A 21st-century atlas of the UK
BOOK
Injustice: Why social inequality still persists
Authors
Dorling, D. (2015, revised edition)
Bristol: Policy Press
ISBN:
9781447320753
Injustice: Why social inequality still persists
BOOK
The Social Atlas of Europe
Authors
Ballas, D., Dorling, D. and Hennig, B. (2014)
Policy Press
ISBN:
978-1447313533
The Social Atlas of Europe
BOOK
All That is Solid
Authors
Dorling, D. (2014)
Allen Lane
ISBN:
9781846147159
All That is Solid
BOOK
Population 10 Billion
Authors
Dorling, D. (2013)
Constable and Robinson
ISBN:
9781780334912
Population 10 Billion
BOOK
Unequal Health: The scandal of our times
Authors
Dorling, D. (2013)
Policy Press, Bristol
ISBN:
9781447305132
Unequal Health: The scandal of our times
BOOK
The 32 Stops
Authors
Dorling, D. (2013)
Penguin
ISBN:
9781846145605
The 32 Stops
BOOK
The Population of the UK, 2nd Ed
Authors
Dorling, D. (2013)
SAGE
ISBN:
9781446252970
The Population of the UK
BOOK
The Visualization of Spatial Social Structure
Authors
Dorling, D. (2012)
Wiley
ISBN:
9781119962939
The Visualization of Spatial Social Structure

Recent academic papers

Others are available on the Geovisualization, Inequality and Space webpages.

Revisiting the point-source hypothesis of the coronary heart disease epidemic in light of the COVID-19 pandemicRevisiting the point-source hypothesis of the coronary heart disease epidemic in light of the COVID-19 pandemic - Extra link with further links to 30 key references.

More of Danny's papers can also be found at http://www.dannydorling.org