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 Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society by Joseph E. Stiglitz and published by Allen Lane
In The Road to Freedom, Joseph Stiglitz considers the relationship between capitalism and freedom, evaluating democracy, economics and what constitutes a good society.
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Visualising the 2020s UK cost-of-living crisis
This article is unusual in that it provides a graphical summary of various aspects of the longer-term crisis that appeared to cumulate in 2022 through to at least early 2024
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Contrasting Child Poverty in Finland and England in 2024
On 21 March 2024 the latest official poverty statistics for the UK were released.
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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