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Cathy McIlwaine's research has raised the profile of Latin Americans in London and placed the community more centrally in public debates and policy frameworks. McIlwaine provided the first official estimate of the size of the Latin American population in London in 2011, and this led Southwark local authority to formally recognise Latin/South Americans as a distinct group in their ethnic monitoring, in order to improve their access to health and welfare services. Her work has informed the work of charities, NGOs and lobbyists, leading to the creation of the Coalition of Latin Americans in the UK and the expansion of services at the Latin American Women's Rights Service. It has also been used by Latin American consulates to provide evidence about their communities in London, and has improved public awareness of the Latin American community in the capital, including providing a key source and inspiration for the play Juana in a million by Vicky Araico Casas, performed to over 7,000 people in the UK and Mexico.
Art history at Essex has a long tradition of research in Latin American art. Since 1993 this research activity has included academic publications, exhibition curating and catalogue production, and the development of the Essex Collection of Latin American Art (ESCALA). This research has informed the work that Essex art historians have undertaken to raise the profile of the history of Latin American art. The impact of this research has been achieved through collaboration with major art institutions including Tate and Pinta and through exhibitions of work collected by ESCALA. Through these activities Essex art historians have influenced Tate's collections and exhibitions, introduced Latin American artists to the global art market, and taught regional, national, and international publics about the significance of Latin American art.
Innovative interdisciplinary research undertaken in the areas of intersectionality, diversity, and widening participation at the University of Hull contributed first to the development of a project funded by the European Union, the EU-ALFA III funded project `Development of Policies to Promote Widening Participation and Equal Opportunities in Higher Education Institutions in Latin America' (MISEAL). This project involves a consortium of 16 international institutions (4 EU universities and 12 universities in Latin America). Second, within MISEAL, research undertaken at Hull has led to the development and use of intersectional statistical tools for the measurement of inequality in the 12 Latin American partner HE institutions, of protocols for the analysis of their regulations regarding widening participation and equal opportunities and of guidelines for the organization of workshops (for staff and students) to raise awareness about inequality. MISEAL has also organised a number of reach-out activities, promoted collaboration with governmental organisation and created a network of experts in this area. The relevant impact has been primarily on public services and policy making (especially in the areas of widening participation and equal opportunities) and on education (at an international level and especially in the area of curriculum development and knowledge transfer). The primary beneficiaries have been policy makers including legal professionals and managers who are involved with the development of legal frameworks for widening participation and equal opportunities in Latin American HE institutions as well as academics and students internationally and groups concerned with curriculum development in HE institutions in Latin America.
The Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics Series is central to the University's commitment to the teaching and spread of knowledge of Greek and Latin at a time when these languages are under increasing pressure in schools and HEIs. Hardie, Hunter and Oakley are General Editors of a series of Greek and Latin texts with commentaries aimed at a broad public readership, from the higher levels of school onwards. This series, now numbering 94 volumes in print, has, through its international adoption in schools and colleges, greatly broadened the range of texts which are accessible at all levels and changed the way these texts are read and studied. The series has huge brand recognition as `the Green and Yellows' (or `Green and Golds' in the USA) and has had considerable economic impact within the book market.
Politicians and diplomats in Britain and Latin America, together with descendants of the 7,000 British and Irish mercenaries who served under Simón Bolívar between 1810 and 1830, have benefited over the past five years from fresh insights into how Britain helped Colombia and Venezuela achieve independence from colonial rule. This more accurate understanding of historical relationships, gained through original research undertaken at the University of Bristol since 2005, has illuminated many personal histories, underpinned national bicentenary commemorations and helped to inform British foreign policy.
Diogenes, created solely by Peter Heslin, is a freely distributed, open-source programme which enables access to all the major databases of classical Greek and Latin texts that have been in public circulation since the mid 1980s. Diogenes has had a significant and lasting impact on the education and cultural life of many of its tens of thousands of users. Some of these are professional classicists, who utilize it for both research and teaching. But a much larger part of the user population consists of students and non-academic readers of ancient Greek and Latin. Diogenes makes available to them the whole corpus of classical literature in the original languages. It also provides integrated morphological tools and lexica to support the needs of both language learners and more advanced readers. Diogenes has also had a significant and enduring impact on the movement towards open access publishing of digital resources for classics worldwide.
Lack of access to water and sanitation services (WSS) is a long-term material deficit in Latin American democracies, worsened since the 1980s by privatization and commodification policies. Research at Newcastle since 2005 has played a major role in supporting policy change to defend and enhance public services by providing evidence-based grounds for policy interventions and informed citizen participation. It has:
Using a ground-breaking database of recovered narratives of Latin American women during the Wars of Independence,
The Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD) project approaches the understanding of Greek and Roman tragedies and comedies through gathering evidence about their performance and traces their evolving significance through the way they have been received in performance practice. The APGRD has had significant impact on theatrical performance through its lively interaction with practitioners in the theatre and other performing arts, which has expanded the repertoire of classical drama, and through the commissioning of new work. This research has provided significant cultural and pedagogical benefits through being presented in various public forums (radio, lectures, exhibitions) and through the creation of a searchable open-access online database of more than 11,000 productions from the Renaissance to the present.
Research conducted at UCL by Professor Orazio Attanasio and his direct engagement with policymakers has been instrumental in the implementation, design and evaluation of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes to stimulate the accumulation of human capital in Mexico and Colombia. The research underpinned the design of an innovative pilot, which he also evaluated, in two major cities, Puebla and Ecatepec, with a combined population of around 4 million. In Colombia, an evaluation led by Professor Attanasio led to improvements in and expansions of the CCT programme, with ongoing benefits to 3 million households. The research team also contributed to a child development programme that launched in Peru in March 2013.