Professor Danny Dorling
Danny Dorling was educated at The University of Newcastle upon Tyne in Geography, Mathematics and Statistics leading to a PhD in the Visualization of Spatial Social Structure (1991). He continued studying in Social Science at Newcastle as a Joseph Rowntree Foundation and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow before moving to the University of Bristol to teach Geography there, next being appointed to a Chair of Quantitative Human Geography at the University of Leeds. Since 2003 he has been a Professor of Human Geography in the University of Sheffield. He is also Adjunct Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Canterbury, NZ, and Visiting Professor in the Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, UK. In 2003 Danny was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for outstanding scholarship and was appointed an Academician of the Academy of the Learned Societies in the Social Sciences, and in 2004 he was awarded an Erskine Fellowship to undertake a sabbatical at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, in spring 2005. In 2006 he was awarded a British Academy Research Leave Fellowship, to study the transformation of social inequality in the United Kingdom: 1945-2005. In 2007 he was awarded a Leverhulme Study Abroad Fellowship to work on understanding the current transformation of inequality internationally in the rich world. In 2008 he was appointed Honorary President of the Society of Cartographers. In 2009 was awarded (for work with colleagues) the Gold Award of the Geographical Association and the Back Award of the Royal Geographical Society for his work on national and international public policy.
Research InterestsTrying to understand and map the changing social, political and medical geographies of Britain and further afield, concentrating on social and spatial inequalities to life chances and how these may be narrowed.
Current ResearchDanny's current research interests include the visualization of spatial social structure through drawing atlases; the changing social, medical and political geographies of Britain as revealed by the 2001 Census; and from using a wide range of resources, trying to fathom the implications of rising housing market and wealth inequalities, the polarization of health and life chances and the prospects for new social policies based on evidence and advocacy from research. His research tries to show how far understanding the patterns to people's lives can be enhanced using statistics about the population. Part of this research involves developing new techniques to analyse and popularise quantitative information about Human Geography. In particular, introducing the use of novel cartographic techniques into geographical research. The substantive side of this concern is with how the fortunes of people living in Britain are distributed and are changing. This work has been supported through a number of sponsored projects. For current and recent funded projects see Danny's research group website
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