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IPM expands its Senior Fellow network

The Institute of Place Management has elected 22 further Senior Fellows, considerably expanding the existing network in response to the growing recognition that place management and leadership achieves better and more resilient places.

Supporting regional place management organisations

The pandemic has brought about numerous changes to neighbourhoods, towns and cities, with place managers and leaders having been forced to deal with multiple challenges and setbacks, including significantly reduced footfall. As the focus turns once again on reopening high streets and commercial centres, reports last week suggest that the full impact of COVID-19 is 'yet to be fe ...

BIDs work with Department of Health and Social Care to support workplace testing

Business Improvement Districts are working with the Department of Health and Social Care to support COVID-19 workplace testing and explore ways they can coordinate the provision of tests to businesses in their local areas.

COVID-19 and Economic Geographies

On 10th March, IPM hosted a webinar exploring the longer-term consequences, trends and varying impact in the 12 months since the first lockdown restrictions were introduced.

IPM joins forces with researchers at Sheffield Hallam University

Sheffield Hallam University has been appointed as a Partner Member of the Institute and will work with IPM on potential research collaborations with its Department of the Natural and Built Environment (NBE) and The Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR).

MSc Cohort undertake a classifying stakeholders activity

In one of our recent weekly sessions on our postgraduate course in Place Management and Leadership, we explored stakeholder theory and a number of methods of classifying stakeholders with our students.

COVID-19 and changing economic geographies

This event on 10th March will explore what the post-COVID prognosis looks like

Meeting in the Middle: problematising placemaking from the ground up

On the Thursday 25th February, the institute is hosting a round table event exploring the topic of 'placemaking' following the publication of The Routledge Handbook of Placemaking at the start of the year. 

New students join our postgraduate course in Place Management and Leadership

Last week we had 18 news students join our postgraduate course in Place Management and Leadership, the group heard from the IPM core teaching team as well as from a range of guest speakers

New JPMD special issue focuses on culinary tourism and technological transformations

In 2020, JPMD released the special issue “From place to plate…and back again”, edited by Peter Varley, Chloe Steadman and Annelie Sjölander-Lindqvist, brought forward in great depth the intimate links between food and place, the immaterial values (memories, narratives, experiences) that these links invoke to people who produce or consume them, and the central role of food in pr ...

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