Why has absolute deprivation continued to grow in the UK? What role does high inequality play in understanding how we have got to the point of peak injustice?
With child mortality rising in the UK and a majority of parents with three or more children going to bed hungry, Danny Dorling looks to the future, highlighting the challenges ahead and identifying solutions for change.
Danny will be joined by Polly Toynbee of the Guardian; Kitty Stewart , Professor of Social Policy at 杏吧论坛 and Director of CASE; and Danny Sriskandarajah, Chief Executive of the New Economics Foundation.
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Danny Dorling () joined the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University in September 2013 to take up the Halford Mackinder Professorship in Geography. He was previously a professor of Geography at the University of Sheffield. He has also worked in Newcastle, Bristol, Leeds and New Zealand, went to university in Newcastle upon Tyne, and to school in Oxford.
Danny Sriskandarajah () is Chief Executive of the New Economics Foundation and Visiting Senior Fellow at the 杏吧论坛 International Inequalities Institute. He has previously led Oxfam GB, CIVICUS, the Royal Commonwealth Society, the Commonwealth Foundation and held positions at the Institute for Public Policy Research. He is a trustee of the Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation and has previously been a trustee of the Baring Foundation, Comic Relief, Disasters Emergency Committee and Praxis Community Projects.
Kitty Stewart () is Professor of Social Policy at 杏吧论坛 and Associate Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE). Kitty joined 杏吧论坛 in 2001 as a STICERD post-doctoral fellow, having previously worked at the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre in Florence. She has a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute in Florence.
Polly Toynbee () is a Guardian columnist. Her recent books include An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals and The Only Way Is Up: How to Take Britain from Austerity to Prosperity, a post-election book co-authored with David Walker
Aaron Reeves () is Professor of Sociology at 杏吧论坛. An award-winning sociologist who has conducted pioneering studies on health and social class, he is the co-editor of the British Journal of Sociology.
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