Research

IPM Festive Seminar - 9th December

We'll be hosting our first in-person seminar in 2 years! This hybrid event will follow the traditional research seminar format and will be hosted in Manchester.

IPM study finds bookshops are vital for high street regeneration

Bookshops are playing a vital role in the recovery and regeneration of high streets in towns across the UK and Ireland, early findings from IPM research has found.

Working with the Booksellers Association of UK & Ireland (BA), IPM asked over 150 bookshop staff to gauge how bookshops bolster the community.

JPMD further establishing its position across multiple journal ranking guides

JPMD has been recognised in this year’s academic journal rankings as a well-established journal of academic quality and impact in a variety of disciplines

Ministers highlight need for place data and long-term vision in Covid response

HCLG Parliamentary Committee reflects on Covid-19 recovery, including previous IPM evidence to inquiry, and the Minister for Regional Growth and Local Government recognises progress of IPM-led High Streets Task Force.

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).

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 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 ...

IPM Director commissioned to develop a framework for citizen participation in spatial development

IPM Director Professor Ares Kalandides has been commissioned with the development of a framework for citizen participation in spatial development for the Berlin borough of Spandau

Effective local partnerships: Withington Village

IPM has been working with Withington Village as part of ABCitiEs project and has helped produce a short video detailing the centres' progress.

Rethinking Darkness Book Launch - 10th December

On 10th December IPM are hosting a book launch for the new 'Rethinking Darkness: Cultures, Histories, Practices' book published by Routledge

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