Danny Dorling

Danny Dorling

Recordings of Danny Dorling's talks and events

Episodes

January 17, 2025 43 mins
If we found seven typical 6-year-old children to represent today’s UK, who would they be? What would their stories reveal? Amid the cost-of-living crisis, this could be a depressing story, when even the best-off of the seven is disadvantaged. Yet aspirations endure, and there are many signs that things could be getting better. What do we miss when we focus only on the super-rich and the most deprived? What kinds of lives are B...
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Social scientist and inequality expert Danny Dorling discusses his latest work, Seven Children, an immersive and highly original study of child inequality, in a conversation at Foyles with Polly Toynbee.  Foyles bookshop, Charring Cross Road, London, September 12th 2024.
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Donnington Doorstep is a community-based family centre delivering a range of universal and specialist services. It was set up in 1984 by local parents, who knew that caring for children can be hard. My mum was involved a little at the start, and I was one of the children that it was hard to care for (unruly, etc).

Forty years on Donnington Doorstep is still a home from home drop-in for children, young people and their...
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Who are the incomers who have made the city of Oxford, England their home? Social policy scholar Elizabeth Peretz, geographer Danny Dorling, historian Maurice East and activist Jabu Nala-Hartley lead a discussion about migrants' histories and realities in a Refugee Week event organised by the Coalition To Keep Campsfield Closed. 

The speakers explore the stories of those who have come to Oxford over the years, and ho...
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Why is the UK so unusual – and not at all in a good way? How did the Conservative Party end up having more in common with European political parties such as Germany]s far-right AfD than with other “conservative” parties on the continent – as far back as the prime ministership of David Cameron? How did a recent Scottish government policy that most people outside of Scotland are unaware of, manage to reverse one of the harshest ...
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Danny Dorling, Liz Webster, and Willow Fisher, speaking on "Brexit is a failed project: a brighter future is possible", a Public Meeting organised by Oxford for Europe, Wesley Memorial Church, Oxford, March 20th 2024. A summary for part of the first part is here: https://www.dannydorling.org/?p=9917 and full report which that part is based on is here: https://www.dannydorling.org/?page_id=9912 a report on the failed project.
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13:10-13.35 - "BRITISH CULTURE" Danny Dorling at the Sunday Papers Live, March 17th 2024 (One Marylebone, 1 Marylebone Rd, London) 

Is there any hope? What do we do? Join Danny Dorling, professor in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford, as he explores the options, and how Geography shows you a way out for London, England and the UK.

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A public talk given by Danny Dorling at the Rudolf Agricola School for Sustainable Development, University of Groningen, House of Connections, Oude Ebbingestraat, Groningen, The Netherlands, 19 December 2023. Based on the book "Shattered Nation" and concerning recent events and more long term trends  in the UK, the Netherlands, and elsehwhere. Introduced by Dimitris Ballas and Frans J. Sijtsma.
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Danny Dorling, speaking after John Broughton and Peter Apps, on the housing Policies of the British Labour Party, at the Labour Housing Group Conference: Tackling London's Housing Crisis, Camden London Borough Council, December 9th  2023
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Danny Dorling asking how Britain became so divided. Recorded at Toppings book shop in Edinburgh on 7 December 2023.

Britain was once the leading economy in Europe; it is now the most unequal. In Shattered Nation, leading geographer and author of Inequality and the 1% shows that we are growing further and further apart. Visiting sites across the British Isles and exploring the social fissures that have emerged, Danny D...
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Islands: Danny Dorling in Conversation with John Furlong – a talk about a book, Department of Education, 15 Norham Gardens, University of Oxford, December 4th 2023.

John Furlong, former Director of the University of Oxford Department of Education, discusses his recent memoir ‘Islands: In Search of Brave New Worlds’ with Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Human Geography.

It’s 1969. John and his fri...
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December 4, 2023 49 mins
Falling life expectancy in the UK - a talk by Professor Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University Centre for the Environment given at the Royal Society of Medicine in London at a meeting held on 'Recent advances in medicine and surgery on' Thursday 30 November 2023.


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Danny Dorling and Tim Marshall talk to Oliver Bullough

WORLDS APART – MAPPING INEQUALITY
Thursday 23 November 2023, 8pm Venue: Llwyfan Cymru – Wales Stage (Hay Castle)

One of the UK’s leading geographers, Danny Dorling shows why we are growing further and further apart in his new book Shattered Nation. Looking at hunger, precarity, waste, exploitation and fear, Dorling looks at how Britain, once the lead...
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November 12, 2023 120 mins
Three talks and a discussion lead by Jabu Nala-Hartley, a Masters of Public Health student at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford City Councillor for Barton and Sandhills, recent Chair of the Oxford District Labour Party, and current chair of the Oxford Living Wage Campaign - involving Danny Dorling, Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson; introduced by Sarah Howcutt and convened by the Department of Psychology, Health and Professio...
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Keynote lecture given by Dany Dorling at the CREW research lab, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (USN), in Paris. Given on November 10th 2023 as part of a study day that focussed on the population and geographical locations that were left behind over recent decades in the UK. Considering the particular policies, addressing the concept, causes and consequences, along with the subsequent policy attempts to redress inequalities - all...
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Presentation by Danny Dorling and discussion with Luke Cooper and Zoe Williams: Brexit has failed to address any of the substantive challenges of the day, but it was not a ‘year zero’ for the many problems facing the United Kingdom and, in fact, reflected decades of public policy failure. That’s the argument of Oxford University professor Danny Dorling in his provocative new report, Brexit: a failed project in a failing state,...
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Tom Clark, Samira Shackle, and  Danny Dorling, discuss How Do We Stop Britain Becoming a Failed State? at Festival of the Future City, The Watershed, Bristol, on October 18th. 

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Danny Dorling talks about his new book and begins with the anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street which occurred on this day in 1936 - the last time the UK was as unequal as it was again in 2023. No slides, and an injection of some hope.
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Danny Dorling giving a Population Ageing seminar at the Oxford Martin School, Oxford University, November 4th 2021 on person and by zoom.
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Danny Dorling speaking at the Wanstead Tap Beer Hall, East London, July 21st 2021
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