Danny Dorling

Daniel Dorling
Nationality	British
Fields	Geography Statistics Demography Epidemiology
Institutions	University of Sheffield  University of Bristol University of Canterbury University of Leeds University of Newcastle
Alma mater	University of Newcastle (BSc Hons., PhD)

Daniel Dorling, frequently referred to as Danny Dorling, is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield.^[1] He is also a Professor at University of Canterbury and in the Department of Social Medicine of the University of Bristol.

Biography

Born in 1968, 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. He then taught at the University of Bristol and was appointed Chair of Quantitative Human Geography at the University of Leeds.

Since 2003 he has been a Professor of Human Geography based at the University of Sheffield.^[2] He has mapped (mainly using cartograms), analysed and commented upon UK demographic statistics. Many of his published papers, commentaries and reports are freely available online.^[3] 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 ^[4]

Reception

In commenting on a map produced by Dorling showing the North-South divide in the United Kingdom,^[5] Simon Jenkins described Dorling as "geographer royal by appointment to the left".^[6]

In April 2010, an editorial in The Guardian was entitled "In Praise of Danny Dorling".^[7]

Works

Atlases

• Dorling, D. (1995). A New Social Atlas of Britain, London: John Wiley and Sons.
• Champion, T., Wong, C., Rooke, A., Dorling, D., Coombes, M. and Brunsdon, B. (1996). The Population of Britain in the 1990s: a social and economic atlas, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Dorling, D. and Thomas, B. (2004). People and Places: A 2001 census atlas of the UK, Bristol: Policy Press.
• Dorling, D. (2005). Human Geography of the UK, London: Sage
• Thomas, B. and Dorling, D. (2007). Identity in Britain: A cradle‐to‐grave atlas, Bristol: Policy Press.
• Dorling, D., Newman, M. and Barford, A. (2008). The Atlas of the Real World Atlas: Mapping the way we live, London: Thames and Hudson.
• Shaw, M., Davey Smith, G., Thomas, B., and Dorling, D. (2008). The Grim Reaper’s road map: an atlas of mortality in Britain, Bristol: Policy Press.
• Dorling, D. and Thomas, B. (2011). Bankrupt Britain: An atlas of social change, Bristol: Policy Press.

Books

• Dorling, D. (1996). Area cartograms: their use and creation, Concepts and Techniques in Modern Geography series no. 59, University of East Anglia: Environmental Publications.
• Dorling, D. (2010). Injustice: Why social inequality persists, Bristol: Policy Press.
• Dorling, D. (2011). So you think you know about Britain? The surprising truth about modern Britain London: Constable and Robinson.
• Dorling, D. (2011). Fair Play: A reader on social justice, Bristol: Policy Press.

Collaborations

• Dorling, D. and Fairbairn D. (1997). Mapping: Ways of Representing the World, London: Longman.
• Shaw, M., Dorling, D., Gordon, D. and Davey Smith, G. (1999, 2000). The Widening Gap: Health inequalities and policy in Britain, Bristol: The Policy Press.
• Dorling, D. and Simpson, S. (1999, 2000). Statistics in Society: the arithmetic of politics, edited collection of over forty chapters, London: Arnold.
• Mitchell, R., Dorling, D. and Shaw, M. (2000). Inequalities in Life and Death: What If Britain Were More Equal? Bristol: The Policy Press.
• 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.
• Davey Smith, G., Dorling, D. and Shaw, M. (eds) (2001). Poverty, inequality and health: 1800-2000 - a reader. Bristol: Policy Press.
• Shaw, M., Dorling, D. and Mitchell, R. (2002). Health, Place and Society, Harlow: Pearson Education
• Ballas, D., Rossiter, D, Thomas, B, Clarke, G.P., Dorling, D. (2004). Geography matters: simulating the local impacts of national social policies, Joseph Rowntree Foundation contemporary research issues, York Publishing Services, York
• Dorling, D., Ford, J., Holmans, A., Sharp, C., Thomas, B. and Wilcox, S. (2005). The great divide: an analysis of housing inequality. London: Shelter.
• Wheeler, B., Shaw, M., Mitchell, R. and Dorling, D. (2005). Life in Britain: Using Millennial Census data to understand poverty, inequality and place. Bristol: Policy Press.
• Hillyard, P., Pantazis C., Tombs, S., Gordon, D., and Dorling, D. (2005). Criminal Obsessions: Why Harm Matters More Than Crime
• Dorling, D., Rigby, J., Wheeler, B., Ballas, D., Thomas, B., Fahmy, E., Gordon, D., and Lupton, R. (2007). Poverty, wealth and place in Britain, 1968 to 2005, Bristol: Policy Press.

References

1. ^ http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/geography/staff/dorling_danny
2. ^ http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/geography/staff/dorling_danny
3. ^ http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/geography/staff/dorling_danny
4. ^ SASI website
5. ^ UK North-South Divide
6. ^ The Guardian 26 October 2007 West is north and east is south in this patronising map of stereotypes
7. ^ The Guardian 30 April 2010 In Praise of Danny Dorling

External links

• Danny Dorling's website
• Twitter page