PROMOTING EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY THROUGH ECONOMIC CRISIS (PEDEC)
The PEDEC 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 marginalised 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.
The PEDEC Network's first workshop will be held at Queen Mary
University of London (Mile End Campus) on Wednesday 15th December and
is entitled 'Mapping the Equality and Diversity Challenges of Economic
Crisis'. A copy of the draft programme can be seen at the bottom of
this message. If you would like to participate in this workshop,
please contact the Network Administrator Aisling Lyon
([log in to unmask]). Places are strictly limited in order to preserve
the workshop format.
For further information on the PEDEC Network and how to join its
mailing list, please refer to http://www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/pedec/ or
email Aisling Lyon ([log in to unmask]).
Aisling Lyon
PEDEC Network Administrator
Queen Mary University of London
Promoting Equality and Diversity Through Economic Crisis (PEDEC).
For more information on the PEDEC Network, please go to:
http://www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/pedec/
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MAPPING THE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY CHALLENGES OF ECONOMIC CRISIS:
DRAFT PROGRAMME
Council Room, Queens Building, Queen Mary Mile End campus: 15 December 2010
Convenors: Lizzie Barmes & Hazel Conley
PEDEC Network General Research Questions
(a) What happens to competing justifications for equality and
diversity in times of economic crisis?
(b) How do regulatory and policy options alter in times of economic crisis?
(c) What can be learned about resisting inequality from contemporary
developments and especially from the emergence of distinctive patterns
and experiences of structural disadvantage?
PEDEC Workshop 1 Specific Research Questions
(a) To what extent should competing arguments for equality and
diversity be differently constructed and understood in conditions of
economic growth versus economic crisis?
(b) How does the emergent geography of the current economic downturn
compare with geographies of previous UK recessions?
(c) What are the policy implications of the spatially variable and
socially uneven impacts of the current economic crisis?
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9h30: Coffee
10H00 - 12H00: MAPPING THE BIG PICTURE
Overview and convening of the session: Lizzie Barmes, QMUL, Law
Anne Phillips, LSE, Political and Gender Theory: ?Tackling Poverty,
Inequality, Discrimination: Do We Now Have to Choose Between These?
Ron Martin, Cambridge, Geography
Jill Rubery, Manchester, Economic Sociology, 'Revisiting 'women and
recession': how to conceptualise gender equality in a downturn?'
12h00 - 13h00: Lunch
13H00 - 15H00 MAPPING POLICY IMPLICATIONS
Overview and convening of the session: Hazel Conley, QMUL, Centre for
Research on Equality and Diversity
Rapporteur: Tessa Wright
Simon Deakin, Cambridge, Law, 'Inequality, welfare reform and the crisis'
Al James, QMUL, Geography, 'Work-life conflict and the limits to
learning (or, why it pays employers to care)'
Iyiola Solanke, Leeds, Law
Anne Power, LSE, Social Policy [Invited]
15H00 - 16H00: CLOSING DISCUSSION
Ceri Goddard, Fawcett Society [Invited]
Chair: TBC
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