Celebrating Diversity & Decolonising the Curriculum

• African Digital Research Repositories 

This is a list of known research repositories across Africa. The remit is to promote the dissemination of knowledge from and on Africa.

• Cite Black Authors 

This database seeks to enhance recognition and citation of black academic voices.

• Finding Research From Underrepresented Voices 

This collection of databases put together by the University of Leeds highlights research produced by underrepresented groups, with a particular focus on the Global South

• Latinobarómetro 

Results of Latin American public opinion surveys from 1995 onwards. Available in English and Spanish. Go to Online Data Analysis for summary reports by country. 

• Policy Commons 

The world’s largest database for public policy, with more than 3.2 million reports, working papers, policy briefs and data sources from more than 24,000 international organisations, NGOs, think tanks, and research centres. Topics include education, health, housing, local government, international relations, business, industries etc. and all areas of the world are covered. Use options in Advanced Search if you want to search specific countries.

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• Think Tank Search (Harvard Kennedy School) 

This searches the websites of over 1,200 institutions across the world that generate public policy research, analysis and activity. These sites are affiliated with universities, governments, advocacy groups, foundations, and non-governmental organizations. This site also leads you to other sources for finding policy.

• United Nations Statistics Division 

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Use this site to help gather a large range of statistics, including detailed data on progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).