International Place Management Webinar with IPM and UniSA

30th April 2025 

 

01:00 am - 02:30am UK  |  9:30 am - 11:00 am in Adelaide, Australia. 

 

IPM Members and non-members - Free 

 

 

Join us for an inspiring event connecting Manchester Metropolitan University in England with thought leaders from the University of South Australia as we explore how interdisciplinary approaches shape vibrant places, thriving communities, and dynamic economies. This engaging session promises valuable insights for professionals and community leaders passionate about creating meaningful, resilient, and inclusive places wherever they may be based in the world. 

 

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Agenda:

9:30am Prof Steve Millington, Institute of Place Management with an Introduction to Place Management.

 

Lynette Washington -  Lynette is an early career Research Fellow at the University of South Australia. She has published on gender and leadership, urban and regional development, labour markets, and housing. She has a particular interest alternative approaches place-based leadership that consider how diversity can be harnessed to overcome disadvantage and inequality. The overarching principle behind her work is to undertake research that supports communities to be socially, culturally, economically, and environmentally safe, vibrant, and inclusive. She is currently a Researcher on the RACE for 2030 CRC project Energy Masters and is a member of the Centre for Enterprise Dynamics in Global Economies (C-EDGE). Lynette holds a Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide.

 

9:35am - Susan Stone is the Credit Union SA Chair of Economics at UniSA, where she provides expert analysis and new thinking about South Australia’s economic position and how global economic factors impact the local economy. Prior to joining UniSA, Ms Stone was a division head at the OECD, a Director for the UNESCAP, a Senior Research Fellow at the Asian Development Bank Institute in Tokyo, and a Research Manager at the Productivity Commission in Melbourne. Ms Stone is a frequent guest on radio and television and her opinion pieces have been published in InDaily, The Australian Financial Review and The Australian. Her work has been published as national and multinational government reports, edited volumes, and in peer-reviewed journals. Ms. Stone holds a PhD in Economics and a Master’s Degree in Business and Finance, from Drexel University in the United States and will discuss Local Government approaches to placemaking and events: An Australian Case Study.

 

9:50 - Allan O’Connor: Dr Allan O’Connor is Professor of Enterprise Dynamics and lead for the Industry Ecosystems and Sustainable Societies Capability Groups of the Centre for Enterprise Dynamics in Global Economies at the University of South Australia. With engineering and business qualifications, his early career involved Business Development roles with SMEs, including his own ventures. In 2003, Allan commenced his academic career to pursue research that informs entrepreneurs, management, policymakers, and regional development agencies on how to identify and grow opportunities and foster innovation and entrepreneurship. Allan has led several funded projects including establishment of the Australian Cluster Observatory in 2014, the ‘Industry 4.0 Leadership & Technology Adoption Initiative’ and ‘The value proposition for increased drone take-up in Australia’. Allan has published more than 50 international manuscripts on entrepreneurship and innovation, entrepreneurship education, and entrepreneurial ecosystems, and has been recognised as Australia’s leading researcher in innovation and entrepreneurship by the Australian newspaper in 2020, 2021, and 2022.

 

10:05 - Professor Sunny Son:  Associate Professor Sunny Son is the Program Director of Tourism and Event, Sport and Recreation, and Arts and Cultural Management at UniSA Business, University of South Australia, specialising in event management, visitor experiences and event impacts. She generates knowledge that assists governments and industries in utilising events to achieve diverse objectives and develop strategies for successful and sustainable outcomes, including economic and community development, enhanced place identity, sense of place, community well-being and placemaking.

 

10:20 - Eduardo de la Fuente is Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the University of South Australia, Secretary of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee for the Sociology of the Arts and a member of the newly formed Urban Surfaces Research Network hosted by Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne. He self-describes as a cultural sociologist interested in the arts and creative industries, space and place, landscape and architecture, and also how approaches from the HASS disciplines may inform place development, leadership, management and marketing. In the last few years, Eduardo co-edited with Ariella Van Luyn, Regional Economies, Cultures and Creativity; and with Margaret Gibson et. el a special issue of the social theory journal, Thesis Eleven, on “Thinking Place”. In addition to regularly publishing academic journal articles and presenting at international professional association conferences, he has been a thought leader at Luxperience, led placemaking activities via Mainstreets Australia and his opinion pieces have been published in The Conversation, The Sydney Morning Herald and InDaily. Current projects include a scholarly monograph outlining the benefits of adopting a “textural gaze” or textural way of looking at the world; and an empirical project on the role geology and topography play in urban and regional identity. At present he is also experimenting with how biographical narratives, visual methods and the curatorial practices associated with social media contribute to sense of place and the material-aesthetic textures that interest him.

 

10:35 - Finishing with questions and discussion with Lynette Washington and Prof Steve Millington

 

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