Professor Danny Dorling: Selected Lectures
An overview of talks and lectures held in 2010 can also be found in the multimedia presentations archive on the Sasi website: http://sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/presentations
All audio material is also available on the Sasi Podcast http://sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/podcast
All material is published under a Creative Commons License with the copyright by the authors (unless noted otherwise). The lectures here are sorted in chronological order:
2011
- Dorling, D. (2011). We have enough space for the needs of all but not for the greed of a few. Population Footprints Symposium, London. 26 May.
Full audio (MP3, 46MB) - Dorling, D. (2011). Roads, Casualties and Public Health: The Open Sewers of the 21st Century. Northern Conference on 20mph speed limits, Warrington, 17 May.
Full audio (MP3, 16MB) - Dorling, D. (2011). Comparing income inequality between affluent countries: why so much interest? Invited lecture, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Tokyo, 10 May.
Full audio (MP3, 32MB) - Dorling, D. (2011). Inequality in Britain and comparisons between affluent countries. Invited lecture, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, 9 May.
Full audio (MP3, 25MB) - Dorling, D. (2011). What did you do in the war? Health inequalities - Implications for Health Promotion, Presentation for the British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry conference, Sheffield, 8 April.
Full audio (MP3, 28MB) - Dorling, D. (2011). Injustice, unfairness, health and voting in Britain, Joint Annual Duncan Society Memorial and Eleanor Rathbone Lecture, University of Liverpool, 6 April.
Full audio (MP3, 90MB) - Dorling, D. (2011). So how do you know unfairness when you see it? Business School Research Seminar, Liverpool Hope University, 6 April.
Full audio (MP3, 59MB) - Dorling, D. (2011). Injustice, Inequality and the Cuts, Public meeting organized by Equality NW, Friends Meeting House, Manchester, 5 April.
Full audio (MP3, 55MB) - Dorling, D. (2011). Who are we and where do we come from? Census 1841-2011, invited talk, Bishopsgate institute, London, 31 March.
Full audio (MP3, 55MB) - Dorling, D. (2011). Challenge racist mythology and celebrate our multicultural society, invited talk, Sheffield Unite Against Fascism debate & discussion, Sheffield, 29 March.
Full audio (MP3, 85MB) - Dorling, D. (2011). An introduction to: So You Think You Know About Britain, invited seminar, Department of Geography, Queen Mary University, London, 17 March.
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Split audio files: Danny's Talk (MP3, 24MB), Q&A (MP3, 29MB) - Dorling, D. (2011). How long before we see life expectancy falling in some areas of the UK?, Invited School-Wide Lecture, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 15 March.
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Split audio files: Danny's Talk (MP3, 40MB), Q&A (MP3, 22MB) - Dorling, D. (2011). Being a health inequalities researcher, Invited seminar for Students of Social Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 15 March.
Full Audio (MP3, 67MB) - Dorling, D. (2011). Who is most harmed by these injustices and why, and what happens to those who most benefit, discussion with Carol Craig, Aye Write Book Festival, Glasgow, 12 March.
Full Audio (MP3, 55MB) - Dorling, D. (2011). Geographies of Social Class in 21st Century Britain, Invited lecture, Conference to launch the University of Strathclyde's Centre for the Study of Working Class Lives, Glasgow, 11 March.
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Split audio files: Danny's Talk (MP3, 24MB), Q&A (MP3, 6MB) - Dorling, D. (2011). Dissecting the nation and revealing unexpected truths about the way we live today, Talk at the Aye Write Book Festival, Glasgow, 11 March.
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Split audio files: Danny's Talk (MP3, 30MB), Q&A (MP3, 25MB) - Dorling, D. (2011). Why are so many students around here so posh?, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 9 March.
Full Audio (MP3, 26MB) - Dorling, D. (2011). Lord Pitt Memorial Lecture: How place makes race, London, Race Equality Foundation, 2 March 2011.
Full Audio (MP3, 31MB) - Dorling, D. (2011). A whole society approach to transport - movementissues beyond the journey to work, Ecobuild Seminar, ExCel, London, 2 March 2011.
Full Audio (MP3, 22MB) - Dorling, D. and Garside, R. (2011). Young adults in transition: thelocal picture in the national context, Barrow Cadbury conference onthe criminal justice system, London, 1 March 2011.
Full Audio (MP3, 23MB) - Dorling, D. (2011). Talk and discussion on Injustice, at the launch meeting of the Derby 50k Club, Brewery Tap Pub, Derby, 10 February 2011.
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Split audio files: Discussion at Start (MP3, 17MB), Danny's Talk (MP3, 26MB), Q&A (MP3, 26MB) - Dorling, D. (2011). Injustice, inequality, harm, crime and criminality (and race), Keynote given at the launch event for The Centre for the Study of Crime, Criminalisation and Social Exclusion, Liverpool John Moores University, 3 February 2011.
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Full Audio (MP3, 48MB), Keynote-only Audio (MP3, 31MB), Discussion Audio (MP3, 17MB) - Dorling, D. (2011). The Geography of Austerity: consequences of the coalition government cuts, with a response from David Hall Mathews of the Liberal Democrats, 2 February, Invited Seminar and Debate, Geography Department, University of Leeds, 2 February 2011.
Full Audio (MP3, 50.5MB), Talk-only Audio (MP3, 32.5MB), Response by David Hall Matthews Audio (MP3, 18MB) - Dorling, D. (2011). From Jamie Oliver (and Oliver James) to Porterhouse Blue: what do injustice, inequality and food have in common?, Food Justice Conference Keynote, London, 31 January 2011.
Audio file (MP3, 25MB) - Dorling, D. (2011). The geography of austerity and the alternatives, Yorkshire and Humber Forum Annual Lecture, Sheffield, 27 January.
Audio file (MP3, 45MB) - Dorling, D. (2011). Mapping Bankrupt Britain, talk given on the day GDP fell by 0.5%, invited seminar, Department of Geography, Kings College London, 25 January.
Audio file (MP3, 47MB) - Dorling, D. (2011). Aging and why it's a good thing (if you know about Britain), Sheffield University Retired Staff Association, Sheffield, 12 January 2011.
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2010
- Dorling, D. (2010). The Wealth Chasm - 100 years of tackling poverty and inequality in the capital, presentation, LVSC & Trust for London centenary conference on income inequality in London, Canary Wharf, 23 November.
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Video - Dorling, D. (2010). Roads, Casualties and Public Health: the Open Sewers of the 21st Century, PACTS´ 21st Westminster Lecture and ETSC´s 12th European Transport Safety Lecture, One Birdcage Walk, London, 23 November.
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Audio file (MP3, 51MB) - Bradley, Stephanie (Transition Towns) (2010). The Power of Community, Talk and Discussion at Sheffield Cathedral, 18 November.
Audio file (MP3, 72MB) - Dorling, D. (2010). Injustice, a year on, CASE seminar, London School of Economics, 17 November.
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Video - Dorling, D. (2010). Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists, and changes in inequality in the UK from April to November 2010, invited speaker Dronfield Labour Party Discussion Group, North East Derbyshire, 14 November.
Audio file (MP3, 61.9MB) - Dorling, D. (2010). Playing is learning for living: How inequality impacts on parenting at both ends of the social scale, Keynote, Parenting across Scotland Conference, Edinburgh, 10 November.
Audio file (MP3, 24.6MB) - Dorling, D. (2010). How long before we see life expectancy falling in some areas?, Annual DARE lecture, NHS National Services Scotland Faculty of Public Health Conference, Dunblane, 12 November.
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Audio file (MP3, 40.8MB) - Dorling, D. (2010). The economics of social inequality and the natural environment - why are we more green when we are more equal?, Invited seminar, Department of Economics of the University of Crete, 3 November.
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Audio file (MP3, 35.8MB) - Dorling, D. (2010). Cuts, Class and Inequality, talk given at the Education Activist Network National Conference, London, 31 October.
Audio file (MP3, 13.2MB) - Dorling, D. (2010). Closing Address, Annual Conference of the Equality Trust, London, 30 October.
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Audio file (MP3, 28MB) - Dorling, D. and Wight, J. (2010). Your money and your life? Closing the health gap in Sheffield, Lectures by Dr Jeremy Wight, Director of Public Health in Sheffield; and, Danny Dorling, professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield, held at the Sheffield Equality Group Public meeting, 21 October.
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Audio file (MP3, 90MB) - Dorling, D. (2010). Be about Something, talk given at the Off the Shelf Festival, Showroom Cinema, Sheffield, 17 October.
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Video Recording of the full Performance as Video Stream
The short films from this talk are accessible online at http://www.youtube.com/user/viewsoftheworld/ - Dorling, D. (2010). Mapping world religions and religiosity, talk given at the Sheffield University Arms, 6 October.
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Audio file including the full discussion (MP3, 67.5MB) - Dorling, D. (2010). Coalition against the cuts, invited Speaker, Unison public meeting, Doncaster, 23 September.
Audio file (MP3, 11.5MB) - Dorling, D. (2010). Can the Coalition crack the "North-South" divide?, Invited contribution to the Centre for Cities Fringe meeting at the Liberal Democrat Annual Party Conference, Liverpool, 19 September.
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Audio file (MP3, 51MB) - Dorling, D. (2010). Statistical Shenanigans: From Sweet Peas to Nobel Prizes, how much that we take for granted ain't necessarily so, Plenary Royal Statistical Society, Annual Conference, Brighton, 17 September.
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Interactive Multimedia Audiostream - Dorling, D. (2010). Is more equal more green?, Talk at the Annual Conference of the Green Party, Birmingham, 10 September.
Powerpoint presentation (originally held at the Royal Geographical Society), Spreadsheet (xls) containing data shown in this lecture
Interactive Multimedia Audiostream - Dorling, D. (2010). Inequality in Britain and the Pensioners, Invite talk - National Pensioners convention in the Yorkshire region, AGM, Sheffield Town Hall, 29 July.
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Interactive Multimedia Audiostream - Dorling, D. (2010). The Right-to-Sell - a National Housing Service?, Keynote at the 'Housing Privatisation, 30 Years On: Time for a Critical Re-appraisal' conference, University of Leeds, 27 July.
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Interactive Multimedia Audiostream - Dorling, D. (2010). Changing perspectives: Mapping global injustice by changing the view, Talk in the magnificent maps: power, propaganda and art series, The British Library, London, 20 July.
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Interactive Multimedia Videostream - Dorling, D. (2010). How does green space inequality compare to other inequalities?, Keynote, Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment Report Launch, 1 Kemble Street, London, 6 July.
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Interactive Multimedia Videostream - Dorling, D. (2010). Injustice: Why social inequality persists, Book Launch, Marxism, Friend's Meeting House, London, 5 July.
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Interactive Multimedia Videostream - Dorling, D. (2010). Spatial inequalities in access to university, jobs and 'good' schools, Keynote on "Exploring Inequality and its Consequences: Education, Labour Markets, and Communities", Birbeck University, 5 July.
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Interactive Multimedia Videostream - Dorling, D. and Hennig, B. D. (2010). Using worldmapper in teaching - discussing inequality in the classroom, Prince's Trust Summer School for Secondary School Geography teachers, Homerton College, Cambridge, 28 June.
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Audio file (MP3, 35MB) - Dorling, D. (2010). Re-arranging the deck chairs: Local policy initiatives in a grossly unequal society - what's the point?, Discussion lead by Danny Dorling held on 25 June at the New Local Government Network (NLGN), New City Court, 20 St. Thomas Street, London.
Videostream at Vimeo - Dorling, D. (2010). Social class in Britain, Talk given at the Daiwa Foundation, Japan House, London, 20 May 2010.
Videostream at Vimeo - Dorling, D. (2010). Worldmapping: how and where do 57 million people a year die?, Lecture at the Richard Doll Public Health and Epidemiology Seminar Series, Oxford, 18 May 2010.
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Audio file (MP3, 37MB) - Dorling, D. (2010). Is more equal more green?, Monday night lecture, Royal Geographical Society, London,17 May 2010.
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Interactive Multimedia Videostream - Dorling, D. (2010). Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists, Bookmarks Bookshop, 1 Bloomsbury Street, London, 10 May 2010.
Audio file (MP3, 55MB) - Dorling, D. (2010). Climbing the class ladder: improving life chances in 21st century Britain, IPPR North Overcoming inequality series, Leeds: 26 April 2010.
Audio file (MP3, 63MB) - Dorling, D. (2010). Why social inequality persists, Royal Society of Arts Keynote, London, 22 April 2010.
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Interactive Multimedia Videostream - Dorling, D. (2010). No longer just for the likes of them? University access, talk given to Widening Participation Team, University of Sheffield, 20 April 2010.
Powerpoint presentation - Dorling, D. (2010). No More Rich or Poor? Building a more equal Sheffield, Sheffield Equality Trust invited speaker, Quaker Meeting House, Sheffield, 20 April 2010.
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Interactive Multimedia Audiostream - Dorling, D. (2010). I'm getting too old to understand GIS, but I think I finally know what we need it for. Can you help?, Keynote at the GISRUK 2010, University College London, 16 April 2010.
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Interactive Multimedia Audiostream - Dorling, D. and Hennig, B. D. (2010). Making visible global injustice in health: mapping the causes of 57 million deaths, invited keynote on resources for health, Medsin Global Health Conference, Newcastle Medical School, 28 March 2010.
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Audio file (MP3, 23MB) - Dorling, D. (2010). Panel Member, ESRC event: Post-recession blues: who is being hit the hardest? NIESR, 2 Dean Trench Street, Smith Square, London, 18 March 2010.
Audio file (MP3, 76MB) - Dorling, D. (2010). Now everyone's talking about it – will social inequality fail? Discussion at Café Scientific, Nottingham, 8 March 2010.
Audio files: Talk (MP3, 45MB), Discussion (MP3, 65MB) - Dorling, D. (2010). Tackling social inequality. Will your vote make a difference?. Lecture first given at the Eila Campbell Lecture, Birkbeck University, London, 3 March 2010.
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Interactive Multimedia Audiostream - Dorling, D. (2010). Statistical clues to social injustice. Lecture first given at the Radical Statistics Annual Conference, London, 27 February 2010.
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Interactive Multimedia Audiostream - Dorling, D. (2010). Hello World: Worldmapper for Children. Presentation first given at Lydgate Primary School, Sheffield, 24 February 2010.
Powerpoint presentation (slides by Benjamin Hennig) - Dorling, D. (2010). Why are inequalities in health greater now than at any times since the 1920s?. Lecture given at the University of Sheffield (Talking Points Lecture organized by Yorkshire and Humber Teaching Public Health Network and co-hosted by the School of Health and Related Research [ScHARR]), 10 February 2010.
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Interactive Multimedia Videostream - Dorling, D. , and Hennig, B. (2010). Preparing for "Peak Population": how the UK fits within world demography. Talk given at the The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, London, 4 February 2010.
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Interactive Multimedia Videostream - Dorling, D. (2010). Injustice: why social inequality persists. Lecture first given at the Lancaster Environment Centre and Royal Geographical Society Seminar, University of Lancaster, 27 January 2010.
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Interactive Multimedia Audiostream recorded at Sheffield Humanist Society meeting, 3 February 2010 - Dorling, D. (2010). If lions could talk: attempts at mapping over the borders. Keynote address, given at the Borders and Identities Conference Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 8 January 2010. Slides by Benjamin Hennig.
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2009
- Dorling, D. and Hennig, B. (2009). Social mobility does not matter where it is high, because the size of the gap from top to bottom is so low. Lecture first given at the Social Research Association Annual Conference, 15 December 2009.
Powerpoint presentation - Dorling, D. (2009). World inequality and resources: thinking outside the goldfish bowl. Lecture first given at given at the Hay Festival/Zurich 2009.
Powerpoint presentation - Dorling, D. (2009). The geography of health inequalities. Lecture given at the Peter Townsend Memorial Conference, London, November 20th, 2009.
Powerpoint presentation, PDF Script - Dorling, D. (2009). Ten reasons why migrants are not the problem. Lecture first given at conferences in July 2009.
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