Danny Dorling (born 16 January 1968) is a British social geographer. He is currently 1971 Professor of Geography (known as the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography prior to February 2025) attached to St Peter's College at the University of Oxford; a post he has held since appointed in September 2013. Dorling is a visiting professor in the Department of Sociology of Goldsmiths, University of London, a visiting professor in the School of Social and Community Medicine of the University of Bristol, a visiting fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research, a member of the National Advisory Panel for the policy Centre for Labour and Social Studies (CLASS) Thinktank, and since 2011, a patron of RoadPeace. Dorling became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS) and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (FRSS) in 1989, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) in 2003, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) in 2010, an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (HonFFPH) in 2014, a senior associate member of the Royal Society of Medicine (SARSM) in 2015, and an honorary Doctor of the University of York in 2019. From 2007 to 2017 Dorling was the honorary president of the Society of Cartographers. Source: Wikipedia (en)