Search
-
UNESCO World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/09/unesco-world-atlas-of-gender-equality-in-education/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 9, 2012 With over 120 maps, charts and tables, the UNESCO World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education enables readers to visualize the educational pathways of girls and boys in terms of access,...
-
Security: Latin America and Caribbean
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/04/11/security-latin-america-and-caribbean/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 11, 2014 iGarapé Citizen Security Database This database maps security in 18 countries from Latin America and the Caribbean for the period 1999-2013.
-
State of the Least Developed Countries report 2016
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/09/26/state-of-the-least-developed-countries-report-2016/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 26, 2016 Released in September by the Office of the High Representative for Least Developed Countries. It reviews the progress made in development for 48 countries.
-
Chinese investment in Latin America
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/04/11/chinese-investment-in-latin-america/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 11, 2017 Free access to this detailed database from Inter-American Dialogue’s China and Latin America program and Boston University’s Global Economic Governance Initiative...
-
Urban Gems/Happiness
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/09/28/urban-gemshappiness/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 28, 2012 http://urbangems.org/ A new academic project that aims to crowd source what citizens like about cities and what makes them happy.
-
Is the Internet racist?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/19/is-the-internet-racist/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2015 A trending project called worldwhite.ne t is seeking to expose and use crowdsourcing power to correct, examples of ‘inherent racism in Google image searches’.
-
Open government
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/22/open-government/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 22, 2014 How open is your government? The latest Global Open Data Index from the Open Knowledge Foundation ranks 97 nations according to the openness of their data on 10 themes: national...
-
Leicester team visits Mexico to test deforestation detection by satellites
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/leicester-team-visits-mexico-to-test-deforestation-detection-by-satellites
A team of researchers led by Professor Heiko Balzter (pictured, left) from the Department of Geography and accompanied by Roselin Rodríguez García, Technical Co-ordinator of the GEF-Ambio El Ocote Conservation Project, visited Mexico in February as part of a UK...
-
Isobel Whitelegg
https://le.ac.uk/people/isobel-whitelegg
The academic profile of Dr Isobel Whitelegg, Associate Professor ( Art History; Museum Studies) University of Leicester
-
Histories and Philosophies of Human Geography
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/gy2410
Module code: GY2410 This module introduces you to theoretical and practical issues within contemporary geography. This includes the various traditions of modern geographical thought and describes their continuing influence over how geographical knowledges are produced.