The PEDEC research network brings together scholars, practitioners and activists from the UK, Europe and the US through a series of workshops to explore the implications of the economic downturn, and coming cuts in public spending, for maintaining and progressing equality and diversity standards and for including marginalized groups in economic recovery.

PEDEC's interdisciplinary approach draws on core philosophical and methodological traditions from geography, law, business and management, history and politics to provide stakeholders with new, inter-disciplinary research understandings updated to the (post)recession context, to better inform the formulation of new policies and strategies for tackling exclusion.

This website provides information on PEDEC’s membership, workshops, current research, links to other similarly motivated organizations, as well as news, resource links, and parallel events of interest to our members. 

Please contact Aisling Lyon on a.lyon@qmul.ac.uk if you would like to attend a workshop.  Places are  strictly limited in order to preserve the workshop format.

PEDEC Organising Team
QMUL, July 2010

workshop 4
Workshop 4 Participants, 25 April 2012

workshop 3

Workshop 3 Participants, 16 November 2011


Workshop 2 Participants,  30 March 2011


Workshop 1 Participants, 15 December 2010



About Pedec

Latest News


24 April 2012.  Invitation to inaugural lecture by PEDEC's Professor Lizzie Barmes - 'Law and Other Stories about Behavioural Conflict at Work', Wed 16 May 2012.  More here.

28 March 2012: PEDEC Workshop 4 Programme announced: Effecting Change (Civil Society and Collective Action).  More here.

6 February 2012: Professor Sylvia Walby reports on the impacts of cits on violence against women services. More here

5 February 2012: World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development.  More here.

4 February 2012: New Report: 'Open For All? The Changing Nature of Equality Under Big Society and Localism'. More here.

24 January 2012: Forthcoming Event: 'Feminism, Law and Austerity'
. University of Westminster, 6-9 pm, 7 February 2012.  More info  here