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Oxford LivesOxford Lives - Episode 58 with Professor Danny Dorling Today’s guest is Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the School of Geography and the Environment, here at the University of Oxford. Danny has published (with colleagues) more than a dozen books on social inequalities in Britain and several hundred journal papers. His work concerns issues of housing, health, employment, education and poverty. Danny is currently attached to St Peter’s College in Oxford. Prepare for some fascinating insights. Link: https://www.dannydorling.org/2025-04-171h 03
Breaking beliefismProf Danny DorlingIn this episode, Prof Paul Dolan talks to Prof Danny Dorling, a professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford. They discuss freedom of speech, social class, inequality, and education. They agree on many things apart from the importance of measuring happiness. Danny thinks he has a way for Paul to tolerate Coldplay fans - but he's surely wrong about that. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-03-2129 minBreaking beliefismProf Danny DorlingIn this episode, Prof Paul Dolan talks to Prof Danny Dorling, a professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford. They discuss freedom of speech, social class, inequality, and education. They agree on many things apart from the importance of measuring happiness. Danny thinks he has a way for Paul to tolerate Coldplay fans - but he's surely wrong about that. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-03-2129 min
The Fair Society seriesSeven Children: Inequality and Britain’s Next Generation (with Danny Dorling)What does declining prosperity mean for Britain’s next generation? In his latest book, author and professor Danny Dorling constructs seven “average” children from millions of statistics – each child symbolising the very middle of a parental income bracket, from the poorest to the wealthiest. Seven Childrenexplores the realities facing Britain's youth in the aftermath of the pandemic and the cost of living crisis.Dorling's seven children were born in 2018, at a time when the UK faced its worst inequality since the Great Depression. As they turned five in 2023, their country had Europe's fastest-rising child poverty rates, and even...2024-09-1756 min
Transforming Society podcastDanny Dorling on the UK election and hope for changeDanny Dorling and Jess Miles talk about his concept of peak injustice - that injustice and inequality are now so bad in the UK that it might just be that they can't get worse. In advance of 4 July, they talk about Keir Starmer and what the Labour party may offer, why higher taxes aren't a burden, how fear wrecks societies and the data that gives us hope that getting down from the top of the mountain of injustice might be possible.Danny Dorling is Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford a...2024-06-2136 min
Sigma Nutrition Radio#520: How Exercise Impacts Appetite, Food Intake and Adiposity – James Dorling, PhDLinks: Go to episode page Subscribe to Premium Join the Sigma email list Go to our recommended resources About This Episode: Have you ever wondered how exercise affects our appetite and energy intake? While we know that single bouts of exercise can create a short-term energy deficit, do they also influence our hunger levels? And what about long-term exercise training? Could it modify our appetite in ways that help us better control our weight? Recent research suggests that exercise may indeed play a role in appetite regulation. Could exercise modify the subjective and...2024-04-3049 min
London Review Bookshop PodcastDanny Dorling & Leo Hollis: Shattered NationIn Shattered Nation, Oxford Professor of Geography Danny Dorling meticulously documents how Britain over the last 40 years has been transformed by incompetence, avarice and short-termism from one of the world’s leading economies, with widely admired public services, into Europe’s most unequal society, afflicted by staggering levels of deprivation and social division. Dorling was joined in conversation by Leo Hollis, author of The Stones of London and Inheritance.Buy Shattered Nation from the Bookshop: lrb.me/shatterednationFind more events at the Bookshop: lrb.me/eventspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...2023-12-061h 08
The Verso PodcastBreaking Britain | Danny Dorling & Chantelle LewisThis week on The Verso Podcast we’re bringing you a deep dive on how Britain’s institutions, infrastructure, and social fabric are faring - and the prognosis doesn’t look good. For this episode Chantelle Lewis and Danny Dorling join our host, Eleanor Penny, to talk public wealth, regional division and failed states.
You can find Danny's book "Shattered Nation:
Inequality and the Geography of A Failing State" here: tinyurl.com/y97c3v2a2023-11-161h 06
The CosmopolitanShattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of a Failing State. Talking with author, Professor Danny Dorling, Oxford University Podcast: The San Francisco Experience (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of a Failing State. Talking with author, Professor Danny Dorling, Oxford UniversityPub date: 2023-09-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationShattered Nation, written by Oxford Professor Danny Dorling, demonstrates how the United Kingdom has been fundamentally damaged by 40 years of neoliberal policies of successive Conservative and Labour governments. Inequality is on the rise while life expectancy is declining and infant mortality is on the upswing. What has...2023-09-2146 min
Financial Fairness Podcast12. Levelling Up: Danny DorlingMubin talks to Danny about Levelling Up. What is Levelling Up? Why is Britain so unequal? Is Levelling Up working? Danny gives his verdict on all these questions and more.
Summary of the discussion
We have huge geographical inequalities across the UK, and that impacts all of us, from our health, living standards, jobs, transport, housing and much more. Levelling Up is the Government’s attempt to try and reduce these gaps, but will it work and why are these inequalities so wide in the UK.
Mubin speaks to Danny Dorling, professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford, wh...2023-02-0234 min
Real Agenda RadioCompass 31: Inequality with Danny DorlingWe’re delighted to welcome academic, author, social commentator, and human cartographer Danny Dorling to this episode (recorded in November 2020). The conversation roamed over many topics, from Biden and Covid, to Finland and Extinction Rebellion. It’s Bloody Complicated podcast is created by Compass www.compassonline.org.uk which campaigns for a Good Society, now available on The Real Agenda Network. www.realagenda.org 2021-02-0552 min
Danny DorlingThe British Housing DisasterA keynote speech given remotely by Danny Dorling at the Annual Conference of Asumisen rahoitus- ja kehittämiskeskus (ARA) , The Housing Finance and Development Centre of Finland, January 21st 2021.2021-01-2125 min
At a DistanceDanny Dorling on Our Remarkable Era of SlowdownDanny Dorling, author of the book “Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration—and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives” and the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford, talks with us about geography as a means to understand culture; how and why, despite our sped-up modern lives, the world has been in a global slowdown since the late 1960s; and the ways in which this slowdown illuminates women’s aptitude for leadership.2020-12-1746 min
It's Bloody Complicated - A Compass PodcastInequality with Danny Dorling | Ep.31We’re delighted to welcome academic, author, social commentator, and human cartographer Danny Dorling to the podcast this week.The conversation roamed over many topics, from Biden and Covid, to Finland and Extinction Rebellion. We discussed in particular Danny's three latest books: Rule Britannia (written with Sally Tomlinson) , Slowdown, and Finntopia (written with Annika Koljonen).Some key points from the discussion:Reflections on Biden's victory in the US election from the point of view of British and European progressives. (It's more relief than happiness).Just as the aftermath of wars tend to see reductions in in...2020-11-1752 min