Prof Danny Dorling

Halford Mackinder Professor in Geography at the University of Oxford

Professor Danny Dorling is a geographer and author. He was previously a professor of Geography at the University of Sheffield, and before then at the University of Leeds. He has also worked in Newcastle, Bristol, and New Zealand. In 2015, he was a commissioner of the London Fairness Commission, which reported in 2016. Much of Danny’s work is available open access on his website.

With a group of colleagues, he helped create the websites Worldmapper and Londonmapper, which visualise socioeconomic data through infographics in the form of modified maps. His work concerns issues of housing, health, employment, education, wealth and poverty. He is a patron of the charity Roadpeace, an Honorary Patron of Heeley City Farm, Sheffield, and Senior Associate member of the Royal Society of Medicine. His most recent books are Peak Inequality (Policy Press, 2018) and Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire co-authored with Professor Sally Tomlinson (Biteback, 2019). He tweets  @DannyDorling.