Danny Dorling

Biography

Danny Dorling is the Halford Mackinder Professor in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. He was previously a professor of social geography at the University of Sheffield, and before then a professor of quantitative geography at the University of Leeds. His earlier academic posts were in Newcastle, Bristol, and New Zealand. He is author of “Inequality and the 1%”, third edition published in autumn 2019. His most recent book, with Sally Tomlinson, is titled ‘Rule Britannia: Brexit and the end of Empire’ concerning what the 2016 EU referendum and 2019 attempts at ‘exit’ reveals. In 2018 he published “Peak Inequality” on issues of housing, health, employment, education, wealth and poverty in the UK. In 2020 he is publishing a book with Yale University Press on: “Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration—and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives.