Welcome! This is a website for people who are interested in the works by Danny Dorling, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford.
It provides on-line material for most of his books, multimedia & data files and gives access to many of his publications. It shows what is new and provides a repository of what is old. If you are searching for something specific, please use the search option below.Search this website
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Here you find a compilation of some of Danny’s work since January 2015, such as audio/video recordings and writings in print or online media. If you want to find out more about future events with Danny, please go to the Talks & Events page. Academic publications are archived in the Publications section. More multimedia material is assembled in the Collections section.
Getting shorter and going hungrier: how children in the UK live today
…why did this happen to our children? This rise in child poverty is a change that has not been found to have occurred to the same extent anywhere else in[…]
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The 2024 UK General Election result by age group
Five years ago I drew a diagram to illustrate why age was such an important factor in determining the result of the previous, 2019, UK General Election.
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Reflections on the results of the General Election
Thanks to the far-far-right standing in almost every seat in the UK 2024 General Election, Labour is now in power as the party of government.
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Danny in numbers
Books
Academic Papers
Sandcastles
Some of Danny’s other professional engagements
What other people say
Is this the worst book written about Brexit?
Jim Butcher
Writing about Rule Britannia; Brexit and the End of Empire
He is that rare university professor: expert, politically engaged and able to explain simply why his subject matters
The Guardian
Editorial Fri 30 Apr 2010
Professor Danny Dorling has a knack for making statistics sexy.
Martin Wainwright
Former northern editor of the Guardian