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.
Review of: The Politics of Crime, Punishment and Justice: Exploring the Lived Reality and Enduring Legacies of the 1980s Radical Right
Why did crime rise in Britain in the 1980s? Was it rising economic hardship, rising greed? A bit of both and something else? Was it the adoption of the mantra[…]
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The BBC, the public sector, and universal service
There was once a time, long ago, when every year the population of the UK became more united as income inequalities fell and the public sector grew.
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How Seven Up Inspired Me
I am eight lots of seven years old (56). My generation grew up with Seven Up! – a warning and hope about what we might become.
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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