Peak Injustice

Danny Dorling


Danny Dorling is a professor in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford, UK. He was previously a professor at the University of Sheffield for a decade, and before that, at the University of Leeds. He has also worked as an academic in Newcastle and Bristol. He was born and brought up in Oxford.

In 2020 he published Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration—and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives.

In 2021, jointly with Annika Koljonen, he published Finntopia: what we can learn from the world’s happiest country. He slowed down for a year, and did not publish a book in 2022. His 2023 book was titled: Shattered Nation: Inequality, and the geography of a failing state.

In 2024 he published two books: Seven Children and Peak Injustice.

Danny is a patron of the road crash charity RoadPeace, of Heeley City Farm in Sheffield, and of the educational campaign group Comprehensive Future.

In his spare time, he makes sandcastles on beaches with clean streams and the right kind of sand. He errs towards being optimistic about the future, because his academic work suggests to him that this is the most rational stance to take – despite what you may see around you.