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Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Danny Dorling is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several domains mainly within the Social Sciences and Health Professions, with a significant number of publications in these fields. The primary subfields they cover include General Health Professions, Health, Sociology and Political Science, Education, and Finance.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as Employment and Welfare Studies, Health disparities and outcomes, Global Health Care Issues, Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism, Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations, Homelessness and Social Issues, and COVID-19 epidemiological studies.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Danny Dorling include:

  • Changes in population movement make COVID-19 spread differently from SARS, 2020, Social Science & Medicine
  • Things Fall Apart: the British Health Crisis 2010-2020, 2020, British Medical Bulletin
  • Associations between school enjoyment at age 6 and later educational achievement: evidence from a UK cohort study, 2021, npj Science of Learning
  • Growing socio-spatial inequality in neo-liberal times? Comparing Beijing and London, 2020, Applied Geography
  • Spatial and temporal inequalities in mortality in the USA, 1968-2016, 2021, Health & Place

Frequent co-authors of Dorling include:

  • Lucinda Hiam
  • Martin McKee
  • Annika Koljonen
  • Qiujie Shi
  • Benjamin D. Hennig

Scholarly output by Danny Dorling has appeared regularly in certain publication venues, including:

  • BMJ
  • British Medical Bulletin
  • Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
  • Public Health
  • Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science

In the area of academic books, Dorling has published titles through several presses. These include:

  • Policy Press: Using Evidence to End Homelessness (2020), Peak Injustice (2024)
  • Agenda Publishing eBooks: Finntopia (2020)
  • Yale University Press: Slowdown (2020)

Danny Dorling holds the distinction of being a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Injustice (revised edition): Why social inequality still persists

    Daniel Dorling

  • The widening gap: Health inequalities and policy in Britain

    Mary Shaw;Daniel Dorling;David Gordon;George Davey Smith

  • Life expectancy: women now on top everywhere

    Anna Barford;Danny Dorling;George Davey Smith;Mary Shaw

  • Poverty, social exclusion and minorities

    M Shaw;D Dorling;G Davey Smith

  • Mapping : Ways of Representing the World

    Daniel Dorling;David Fairbairn

  • AN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ANALYSIS OF BRITISH AIR QUALITY

    Gordon Mitchell;Danny Dorling

  • Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists

    Daniel Dorling

  • Poverty, wealth and place in Britain, 1968 to 2005

    Eldin Fahmy;Danny Dorling;Jan Rigby;Ben Wheeler

  • Ecological study of social fragmentation, poverty, and suicide.

    Elise Whitley;David Gunnell;Daniel Dorling;George Davey Smith

  • All That Is Solid: How the Great Housing Disaster Defines Our Times, and What We Can Do About It

    Daniel Dorling

  • Why are suicide rates rising in young men but falling in the elderly?-- a time-series analysis of trends in England and Wales 1950-1998.

    David Gunnell;Nicos Middleton;Elise Whitley;Daniel Dorling

  • Area cartograms: Their use and creation

    Daniel Dorling

  • Government Debt

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  • People and Places: A 2001 Census Atlas of the UK

    Daniel Dorling;Bethan Thomas

  • Inequality and the 1

    Daniel Dorling

  • SimBritain: a spatial microsimulation approach to population dynamics

    Dimitris Ballas;Graham Clarke;Danny Dorling;Heather Eyre

  • The risk of prostate cancer amongst black men in the United Kingdom: the PROCESS cohort study.

    Y. Ben Shlomo;S. Evans;C. Metcalfe;F. Ibrahim

  • Geographies of the agenda: public policy, the discipline and its (re)‘turns’

    Danny Dorling;Mary Shaw

  • Inequalities in premature mortality in Britain: observational study from 1921 to 2007

    Bethan Thomas;Danny Dorling;George Davey Smith

  • Brexit: the decision of a divided country

    Danny Dorling

  • A New Social Atlas of Britain

    Daniel Dorling

  • Secular trends in antidepressant prescribing in the UK, 1975–1998

    Nicos Middleton;David Gunnell;Elise Whitley;Daniel Dorling

Frequent Co-Authors

Mary Shaw
Mary Shaw University of Bristol
Richard Mitchell
Richard Mitchell University of Glasgow
Martin McKee
Martin McKee London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Jamie Pearce
Jamie Pearce University of Edinburgh
Graham Clarke
Graham Clarke University of Leeds
Stephen Platt
Stephen Platt University of Edinburgh
Benedict W. Wheeler
Benedict W. Wheeler University of Exeter
Kate E. Pickett
Kate E. Pickett University of York
Arline T. Geronimus
Arline T. Geronimus University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Trisha Greenhalgh
Trisha Greenhalgh University of Oxford

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