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Professor Danny Dorling is the 1971 Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford, where he joined the School of Geography and the Environment in September 2013. He is also a Fellow of St Peter’s College, Oxford. He previously held a professorship in Geography at the University of Sheffield and has worked at institutions including the universities of Newcastle, Bristol, and Leeds, as well as in New Zealand. Dorling earned a BSc with Honours in Geography, Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Newcastle in 1989 and completed a PhD there in 1991 on the visualization of spatial social structure.
His research focuses on issues of housing, health, employment, education, wealth, and poverty, with broader interests spanning geography, statistics, demography, epidemiology, and sociology. Dorling has authored or co-authored numerous books, including So You Think You Know About Britain (2011), Population Ten Billion (2013), Injustice: Why Social Inequalities Persist (revised 2015), The Equality Effect (2017), Slowdown (2020), Shattered Nation (2023), Seven Children (2024), and The Next Crisis (2025). He is an Academician of the Academy of the Learned Societies in the Social Sciences and a former Honorary President of the Society of Cartographers. Before entering academia, he worked as a play-worker in children’s play schemes and pre-school education.
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