cadence comments about dorling

10 Nov 2010

Personal geogrpahy of Sheffield - Elitism is efficient

Long term Cadence collaborator Professor Danny Dorling has teamed up with Sheffield College lecturer Carl Lee to do a series of films about inequality. They are great. Thought provoking and quite funny in bits too (not always intentionally) ... more

22 Jun 2010

Centre for Welfare Reform

Sheffield may have had a bad few days, with the 100 million of cuts announced last week still being digested. That is not to say that it is all doom and gloom, with it seeming to be a place where a lot of interesting thinking is going on at the moment ... more

21 Apr 2010

Dorling and inequality

'Danny Dorling's new book exposes the unprecedented rises in inequality that put us on a par with Victorian society - and explains why they endure', according to the Guardian's Society section this week. It is an interestingly timed publication and one the main politcal parties should be asked thier view on. The cadence network Professor makes clear that deprivation has multiple factors and this is not necessarily accepted by all prominent party leaders ... more

2 Feb 2010

Public policy success - Dorling on HE

Professor Danny Dorling, University of Sheffield geographer and part of the Cadence Network wrote about a public policy success in education last week. Below is the full article. The Higher Education Funding Council report on who is getting into universities reveals much more than is at first glance obvious. It shows that after years of effort children from poorer areas are going in growing numbers to university. Many more university places have been provided and in the last few years. For the first time ever recorded, the majority of those additional places have been taken up by children living in the poorer half of British neighbourhoods. This was achieved not at the expense of upper and middle-class children, who have also seen their chances improve. It occurred because of the way the education system as a whole has expanded and, most importantly as a result of massive increases in funding per child in state secondary schools in recent years ... more

10 Nov 2008

Social mobility and Obama 2

Last weeks Cabinet Office report on social mobility has caused a stir. There is a feeling that the way it was spun to the newspapers lead to a focus on only a small part of the evidence. Or as Danny Dorling puts it in a Compass article - 'Do 3 points make a trend?'... more

3 Nov 2008

Social mobility and Obama

If Obama becomes President one of his biggest problems will be attempting to deal with the huge weight of expectation that has grown during the campaign. He might do well to look to the UK, where an enormous number of people feel who were very excited in 1997, now feel diappointed with Labour's impact. One area where progress in the UK has not met expectation is social mobility. Cadence collaborator Professor Danny Dorling has done a lot work in this area and pointed us towards the new Cabinet Office Report released today, that suggests that it 'might start to rise in the future'... more

24 Oct 2007

Robin Hood a Northerner

Professor Danny Dorling was on Radio 4's Today programme again talking about a new North South dividing line. It suggests that Nottingham is in the North and that Robin Hood was a Northerner ... more