Danny Dorling

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Daniel Dorling
Born Daniel Dorling
January 1968 (age 56)
Oxford, UK
Nationality British
Fields Geography
Statistics
Demography
Epidemiology
Sociology
Institutions University of Oxford
University of London
University of Sheffield
University of Bristol
University of Leeds
University of Newcastle
Alma mater University of Newcastle (BSc Hons., PhD)

Danny Dorling (born 1968) is a British social geographer and is the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography of the School of Geography and the Environment of the University of Oxford.[1][2]

He is also 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, and a Member of the National Advisory Panel for the Centre for Labour and Social Studies. He has been a patron of RoadPeace since 2011 and is the current Honorary President of the Society of Cartographers.

In 1989 he became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS), and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (FRSS), in 2003 a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS), in 2010 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), in 2014 was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (HonFFPH), and in 2015 he became a Senior Associate member of the Royal Society of Medicine (SARSM).

Early life and education

Born in 1968 in Oxford, he went to the local state schools, including Cheney School, a coeducational comprehensive and was employed as a play-worker in children's summer play-schemes.[3] 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 Visualization of Spatial Social Structure under the supervision of Stan Openshaw in 1991. His favourite pastime continues to be building sandcastles on beaches.[4]

Academic career[5]

From 1991 to 1993 he 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 September 2013 he became the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, attached to St Peter's College, Oxford.[6] In his inaugural lecture he spoke about the increasing disparity between Britain's richest 1% and the rest. 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."[7]

He has mapped (mainly using cartograms), analysed and commented upon UK demographic statistics. Many of his published papers, commentaries and reports are freely available on-line.[8] In 2005 he started the Internet-based Worldmapper which now has about 700 world maps and spreadsheets of international statistics. He has been on radio, television and in newspaper articles.[9]

Reception

In commenting on a map produced by Dorling showing the North-South divide in the United Kingdom,[10] Simon Jenkins jokingly described Dorling as "geographer royal by appointment to the left".[11]

In February 2006, his 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.[12]

In April 2010, an editorial in The Guardian was entitled "In Praise of Danny Dorling".[13]

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