Learning and Courses

Measures to ensure the physical safety of visitors - such as adequate lighting, CCTV, and a visible security presence - are essential for creating welcoming, vibrant places. Perceptions of safety directly influence footfall, dwell time, and local economic performance.

Recognising this, the Institute of Place Management has identified safety and security as one of the Top 25 factors influencing high street vibrancy. As part of IPM’s evolving events strategy, which focuses on these 25 priorities, we organised a webinar on this theme to help place leaders understand how to improve perceptions of safety and encourage repeat visits, community use, and a thriving day and evening economy.

After 20 months of delivering our postgraduate courses solely online, students were finally able to return to campus at Manchester Metropolitan University for a face to face residential.

On the 23rd of September, we're hosting a research seminar focusing on mobilities, place and placemaking. The event will bring together a range of speakers exploring the broad topic through various lens covering everyday mobilities of young people, canals and waterways, bus travel and seaside destinations.

We are recruiting for our latest cohort of students on our bespoke Place Management courses. The 2022 course is the final opportunity to secure a lower price for studying with us.

The Institute’s latest cohorts of postgraduate students will graduate from the IPM’s Place Management and Leadership programmes this month. The official graduation ceremony is set to take place in Manchester in January 2022.

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.

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

IPM now offers a one-day masterclass in place leadership and 4-month short course in Place Management and Leadership

The webinar brought together place managers and leaders from Amsterdam, Athens, Manchester, the cities of Varaždin- Čakovec (Croatia), and Vilnius, who are all engaged in the Interreg project ABCitEs 

Congratulations to our Place Management and Leadership graduates. All graduations at Manchester Metropolitan University have been cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic; however, we are determined to celebrate the achievements of our graduates.