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📣 New news story 📰 First Tourism Places Symposium led by Maarja Kaaristo, Raoul Bianchi & Tim Edensor was 7-8th June & brought together leading scholars, practitioners & activists addressing issues facing tourism 🗣️ See here for an event overview 👉 mmu.ac.uk/news-and-event…

After a few years in the making, our paper on BIDs' responses during COVID-19 is finally out. It is based on Natalie Raben's dissertation, and highlights the changes in BIDs' practices from a disaster management lens. WeAreWaterloo IPM doi.org/10.1108/JPMD-0…

New Publication! In this article, I draw on eight semi-structured interviews with refugees to examine how spaces are constructed within UK Refugee Status Determination Processes. emerald.com/insight/conten…

We have just started the latest taster session for our MSc Place Management and Leadership programme. We have delegates from across the UK joining us from local authorities, combined authorities and the private sector. Learn more: placemanagement.org/courses/postgr… Manchester Metropolitan Uni

What is #localfood, and why is it associated with #rurality? This study aims to understand how #Marche 🇮🇹 consumers construct #foodlocalness in relation to #ruralspace. Written w/ Morven McEachern. Published in #JPMD (IPM). doi.org/10.1108/JPMD-0…

IPM away day to New Brighton - blown away by the work in the town and a brilliant tour hosted by Daniel Davies Place leadership in action. From the murals to the resident engagement and the ‘complementary not competitive’ ethos to growing the high street. 👏

New in Journal of Place Management and Development, this study is one of the first place-based attempts that uses #GenerativeAI (#GPT4) to assess in situ place experiences from Twitter. doi.org/10.1108/JPMD-0… Viriya Taecharungroj IPM

Progress, successes and barriers so far in Scotland's approach to towns and town centres - that’s the theme of an upcoming IPM Regional Studies Association webinar. IPM Senior Fellows Leigh Sparks & Philip Prentice Scotland's Towns are our speakers. Do join us: placemanagement.org/events/

Join our next #RSAInternational Hour in collaboration with IPM Leigh Sparks & Philip Prentice will discuss a Scottish perspective on place, in contrast to those in Westminster, Europe and beyond. Free registration here: bit.ly/IHScotland #RSAWebinar 👇🔁

You can still sign up for the #RSAInternational Hour webinar, taking place tomorrow at 15.00 BST. Speakers Leigh Sparks & Philip Prentice will be talking about A Scottish Perspective on Place, chaired by Cathy Parker MBE, SFIPM. Register here: bit.ly/IHScotland #placemanagement

This afternoon, Dr Nikos Ntounis met with Uwe S. Brandes to discuss IPM being involved in the Georgetown Global Cities Initiative's Urban Thinkers program (a UN-Habitat World Urban Campaign) We look forward to sharing more details in coming weeks. Learn more via: globalcities.georgetown.edu

Let's celebrate bookshops on #BookshopDay! In 2022, we collaborated with Booksellers Association to research the pivotal role of bookshops in our high streets! The research shows they make a significant impact to our high streets! You can read the research via: booksellers.org.uk/industryinfo/i…

Read Prof. Loretta Lees 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇪 wonderful paper "What Constitutes Engaged Dialogue in Urban Research?" - a wonderful and thought provoking read. Keep reading for the commentaries... #urban #research Initiative on Cities @BUsociologydept

"I would really like to see urban studies and urban scholars being much more inclusive of lesser heard voices, non-academic voices that deserve the same intellectual platform as academic voices." from Prof. Loretta Lees 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇪 in Issue 2:1 #reflect #urbanstudies journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Thanks to Social & Legal Studies for accommodating our research on Ljubljana’s urban squats @jennykanell