Publications
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Journal PapersBelow are links to the papers published by the individual members of SASI: Dimitris Ballas, Anna Barford, Danny Dorling, Charles Pattie, Mark Ramsden, Bethan Thomas, Dan Vickers |
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Reports and project resources |
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| Changing UK: The way we live now. (2008) Report commisioned by the BBC. Danny Dorling, Dimitris Ballas, Dan Vickers, Bethan Thomas and John Pritchard. See report website. |
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| ODPM State of the Cities report. (2005) With colleagues from many universities contributions towards the ODPM State of the Cities report in a project being lead by Professor Michael Parkinson at the European Institute of Urban Affairs, Liverpool John Moores University (2004-5). The report was published by ODPM. and can be downloaded here. |
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| Changing patterns of immigration as indicated by birthplace. (2005) Work commissioned by IPPR on the analysis of census data 1971-2001. See report on IPPR Website, and BBC website built around the data. |
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| Poverty, wealth and place in Britain, 1968 to 2005: Understanding the Transformation of the Prospects of Places Daniel Dorling, Jan Rigby, Dimitris Ballas, Ben Wheeler and Bethan Thomas, David Gordon and Eldin Fahmy This report investiges patterns and changes in the geography of poverty and wealth in Britain from 1968 to 2005 See report website |
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Life in Britain. (2005)
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| Pilot Mapping of Local Social Polarisation in Three Areas of England 1971-2001. (2004) Danny Dorling, Dimitris Ballas, Bethan Thomas and John Pritchard Project home page |
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For older reports, see Danny Dorling's Reports page |
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Books 1995-2008 |
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The Grim Reaper's road map: An atlas of mortality in Britain
The Atlas of the Real World: Mapping the way we live
Identity in Britain: A cradle-to-grave atlas
Poverty, wealth and place in Britain, 1968 to 2005
The great divide: an analysis of housing inequality
Criminal Obsessions: Why Harm Matters More Than Crime
Life in Britain: Using Millennial Census data to understand poverty, inequality and place
Human Geography of the UK
Geography matters
People and Places: a 2001 census atlas
From Votes to Seats: the operation of the UK electoral system since 1945
Health Place and Society
Poverty, inequality and health: 1800-2000 - a reader
Targetting Poor Health: Report of the Welsh Assembly's National Steering Group on the Allocation of NHS Resources, Volume 2: Independent Report of the Research Team
Inequalities in Life and Death: What If Britain Were More Equal?
Inequalities in Health: the evidence
The Widening Gap: health inequalities and policy in Britain
Statistics in Society: the arithmetic of politics
Mapping: Ways of Representing the World
Area cartograms: their use and creation, Concepts and Techniques in Modern Geography series no. 59
The Population of Britain in the 1990s: a social and economic atlas
A New Social Atlas of Britain
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by Mary Shaw, Bethan Thomas, George Davey Smith and Daniel Dorling. 
Daniel Dorling, Mark Newman and Anna Barford. 
Thomas, B. and Dorling, D. 2007, Bristol: Policy Press. 
Dorling, D., Rigby, J., Wheeler, B., Ballas, D., Thomas, B., Fahmy, E., Gordon, D., and Lupton, R. (2007) , Bristol: Policy Press.
Danny Dorling, Janet Ford, Alan Holmans, Cathy Sharp, Bethan Thomas and Steve Wilcox (2005) London: Shelter.
Paddy Hillyard, Christina Pantazis, Steve Tombs, Dave Gordon and Danny Dorling (October 2005)
By Ben Wheeler, Mary Shaw, Richard Mitchell and Daniel Dorling
Cartography by Graham Allsopp, published by Sage March 2005. The book is a short introduction to life in the UK as described from the point of view of a young person’s life chances given their area of upbringing. Using statistics from many different datasets and specially drawn ‘opportunity surface’ maps throughout, the book describes the social landscape of the United Kingdom in an engaging and accessible way. It is written from the perspective of a beginning undergraduate, and a website is being provided to accompany the book at 
Simulating the local impacts of national social policies, published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in early 2005, written by Dimitris Ballas, Dave Rossiter, Bethan Thomas, Graham Clarke and Danny Dorling. This report presents possibilities of creating a simulation model that can be used for the estimation of the spatial impacts of social policies, as well as their socio-economic impact. The report builds on past work in the area of microsimulation to present a new spatial simulation methodology including the dynamic simulation of household spaces as an alternative to household simulation. Microsimulation has been widely used by governments around the world for the analysis of redistributive policies and budget changes. Nevertheless, the report argues that there have been very few examples of extending these simulation models to enable the estimation of geographical impacts of policies.
Written with Bethan Thomas and published in 2004 by Policy Press. The book contains several hundred maps of 2001 census data almost all for all of the UK and almost all also compare the social shape of the country in 2001 to the situation in 1991. Commentary and analysis is included and an appendix giving estimates of the changing proportions of the population in each area who are wealthy, poor, or have a high income. Cartograms and conventional maps are used throughout and in full colour at the local authority district and council area level.
Danny Dorling is co-author of ths book written mainly by Ron Johnston, with Charles Pattie and David Rossiter. The book explains how the British electoral system treats parties disproportionately and differentially. An original study of the fourteen general elections held between 1950 and 1997 shows that the amount of bias in those election results increased substantially over the period, benefiting Labour at the expense of the Conservatives. Labour's advantage peaked at the 1997 general election when, even assuming there had been an equal share of the votes for the two parties, it would have won 82 more seats than its opponents. 
Written with Mary Shaw and Richard Mitchell and published in 2002 by Pearson. The book introduces students of geography, sociology and health sciences to the key factors connecting health, place and society. It uses recent research findings and places them in an historical context in an attempt to provide a brief and accessible introduction to medical sociology and health geography. The book suggests further reading, film watching and internet surfing to encourage the reader to explore this rapidly expanding research field. It is now freely available as a 
Edited by George Davey Smith, Danny Dorling and Mary Shaw and published by the Policy Press in 2001. This book presents excerpts from a very large number of original sources detailing the continued discovery and rediscovery of the inextriable links between poverty inequality and health in Britain over the course of the last two centuries. The book includes a timeline of major events related to these issues and an introduction from the editors. The book begins with the case made against slavery, moves through decades of advocacy for social and political reform in Britain and demonstrates how, through the power of argument, improvements in health are achieved.
David Gordon, Liz Lloyd, Martyn Senior, Jan Rigby, Mary Shaw, Yoav Ben Shlomo [National Assembly for Wales, 2001]. In February 2000 the Health and Social Services Committee of the National Assembly for Wales initiated a review of the allocation of resources for health services, with addressing health inequalities as a primary driver. The Review was led by Professor Peter Townsend. A major component was a body of research produces by the authors listed above, which examined area inequalities in health in Wales and made recommendations for a new formula for resource allocation. The recommendations were debated in the National Assembly, and implementation began in 2005: thus contributing to the redistribution of substantial amounts of funding based on a direct measurement of health need.
Richard Mitchell, Daniel Dorling and Mary Shaw
Edited collection of seventeen chapters published by policy press in 1999. Edited by David Gordon, Mary Shaw, Daniel Dorling and George Davey Smith, with an introduction by Peter Townsend. The book reports the evidence presented to the Acheson Inquiry which was labelled as the most important government-backed examination into inequalities in health in the past 20 years. However, much of the detailed evidence presented to the Inquiry was not published. This book presents all seventeen chapters of evidence commissioned by the Acheson Inquiry to inform their work. It complements the Acheson Inquiry report published by The Stationery Office.
Written with Mary Shaw, David Gordon and George Davey Smith and first published in 1999 by Policy Press. The back cover quotes: "When Tony Blair tours the North to show the wide variations within regions as well as between them, and when Alan Milburn declares commitment to tackling inequalities in heart disease as part of making a fairer society generally, then you know something has touched a chord. It is rare for an academic work to have such an effect on media and ministers, but the widening gap has done just this". John Nicholson, Chief Executive, UK Public Health Association.
A collection of 47 papers edited by Danny Dorling and Stephen Simpson, published in 1999 by Arnold, reprinted in 2000 (and in Japanese in 2003). The claim of the book is that statistics are pervasive and powerful, but often misleading or misunderstood, no more so than when they concern society. The book presents a series of case studies are presented with the goal of showing specifically how statistics are used throughout society. It demystifies statistical reports and helps the reader become a more critical consumer of statistics and a more skilled user of statistical methods. 
Written with David Fairbairn and published by Longman in 1997 this book illustrates how maps tell us as much about the people and the powers which create them, as about the places they show. The book presents historical and contemporary evidence of how the human urge to understand & control the world is presented through the medium of mapping, together with the individual and environmental constraints on the creator of the map.
Daniel Dorling. University of East Anglia: Environmental Publications, 1996
Champion, T., Wong, C., Rooke, A., Dorling, D., Coombes, M. and Brunsdon, B.
Published by John Wiley in 1995 it features over 100 double-page spreads of detailed maps and cartograms depicting the geographical distributions of many facets of society in the 1990s as revealed by Britain's censuses and other sources.
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