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Membership of IPM provides free access to all events, with exception of the IPM bi-annual conference and one-day masterclasses which offer a special members rate.
(Some events are available to non-members and charge a non-member registration fee.)
Professional development
IPM Webinar – ‘Living over the shop’ – 24 April ‘24
How much un- and under-used upper floor space do you have in vacant and occupied units in your town and city centre? What’s the strategy to get it back into productive use? What are the options? What barriers are you likely to encounter and how can these best be overcome?
This IPM webinar will explore case studies from around the country where these currently wasting but valuable spaces are being re-purposed and re-used. We’ll examine options including residential, office, creative & more, and share practical insights on some of the ways that challenges around access, lighting, waste and other obstacles are and can be being tackled.
2pm - 3.30pm | Wednesday 24th April 2024
IPM professional development - 90 CPD pts
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Professional development
IPM 'New Members' Welcome Webinar - 30 May 24
Welcome to the Institute of Place Management's New Members Webinar! We're thrilled to have you join us for this informative and engaging 60-minute session. Whether you're a seasoned professional in the field of place management or just embarking on your journey, this webinar is designed to provide you with a comprehensive introduction to the Institute of Place Management. The aim of the session is to help you realise that you are note alone! We will connect you to others, educate you on innovative research that is transforming how we understand, develop, and manage places, and inspire you with specific examples as to how place management can improve people’s lives. We will also delve into the key resources, and opportunities offered by our institute, and showcase the benefits of becoming a member.
The session will be led by Prof Cathy Parker, the Chair of the Institute of Place Management.
12 - 1pm | Thursday 30th May 2024
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Place Research Seminar - 20th June 2024
3pm-5pm | 20th Jun 2024
Online or in-person @ Manchester Metropolitan University Business School
IPM's research seminars are a chance for place researchers and academics to share the latest developments and findings from their work. It's a chance for practitioners and policy makers to hear the latest thinking on place, from big ideas like over-tourism, culture and atmosphere, and place partnerships to studies of real place interventions and activities. These sessions are always a great chance to be inspired and take learning back to the day job, whether you attend in person or online.
IPM professional development - 180 CPD pts
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Professional development
Place platform symposium - 18 Jun 24
18th June 2024
The place platform symposium will bring together an international range of academic research papers on Place Management.
Hosted in Manchester Metrpolititan University - save the date, more details to be released soon
> Registration opens soon
Professional development
IPM Webinar – 'The Sustainable High Street' - 25 Sept 24
Sustainability. Survey on survey tells us it’s something that means more and more to a growing number of our high street customers, especially but not only in younger generations. It’s an issue impacting our buildings and their suitability going forward, for logistics, for the way we run our businesses and the services they offer, and how places operate, and more.
In this IPM webinar we’ll share insights from some of the evidence-based studies being done on this issue, and hear from IPM members and partners who have sustainability at the heart of their projects in business, on public realm / street scene and beyond.
2.00pm – 3.30pm | Wednesday 25th Sept 2024
Agenda here
Professional development
IPM Webinar – 'The Digital High Street' - 31 October 2024
How much and how well are you using digital technology to improve your high street? And importantly, what more could you do by drawing on case studies from other places that are taking this forward?
Footfall counting, place marketing, trail and other apps – these are all among the more widely used examples but what’s new on those, and what else are places doing, as one of our speakers has described it: “…to collect, analyse and share high-quality data to make decisions on improving management of public realm, increase the efficiency of service delivery or respond to environmental change.”
We’ll hear from IPM members at the forefront of this work and explore some of the projects they’re leading.
2.00pm – 3.30pm | Thursday 31st October 2024
Agenda here