Professor Danny Dorling
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Room number: | F10 |
| Telephone (internal): | 27910 | |
| Telephone (UK): | 0114 222 7910 | |
| Telephone (International): | +44 114 222 7910 | |
| Email: | Daniel.Dorling@Sheffield.ac.uk | |
| Research Website: | http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/sasi |
Danny Dorling was educated at The University of Newcastle upon Tyne in Geography, Mathematics and Statistics leading to a PhD in the Visualization of Spatial Social Structure (1991). He continued studying in Social Science at Newcastle as a Joseph Rowntree Foundation and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow before moving to the University of Bristol to teach Geography there, next being appointed to a Chair of Quantitative Human Geography at the University of Leeds.
Since 2003 he has been a Professor of Human Geography in the University of Sheffield. He is also Adjunct Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Canterbury, NZ, and Visiting Professor in the Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, UK. In 2003 Danny was appointed an Academician of the Academy of the Learned Societies in the Social Sciences.
Research Interests
Trying to understand and map the changing social, political and medical geographies of Britain and further afield, concentrating on social and spatial inequalities to life chances and how these may be narrowed.
Current Research
Danny's research tries to show how far understanding the patterns to people's lives can be enhanced using statistics about the population. Part of this research involves developing new techniques to analyse and popularise quantitative information about Human Geography. In particular, introducing the use of novel cartographic techniques into geographical research. The substantive side of this concern is with how the fortunes of people living in Britain are distributed and are changing. This work has been supported through a number of sponsored projects.
Teaching
Danny enjoys teaching and talking both inside and outside the University. He is particularly interested in the extent to which it is possible to use teaching and communication techniques employed outside of universities within a more academic setting. This includes writing books and producing other material that people might choose to read and learn from, as well as material that students are often directed to read.
He teaches on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses including:
GEO103 Region, Nation and World
GEO165 New Horizons in Geography
GEO242 Health, Place and Society
GEO358 Geography of Europe FieldclassAll staff also engage in personal supervision and tutoring of individual students at all three undergraduate levels in the following modules:
GEO163 (Information & Communication Skills for Geographers)
GEO263 or GEO264 (Research Design in Human or Physical Geography)
GEO356 (Geographical Research Project)