Dr Ilze Mertena, Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University and a member of the British Academy Early Career Researcher Network (ECRN), has been awarded a grant from the ECRN Seed Fund 2024 to lead an exciting new project that places independent high street businesses at the heart of the experience economy.

On 28 March 2025, a group of Institute of Place Management members convened an online closed-door discussion to explore the evolving landscape of devolutio ...

To mark World Health Day 2025, the Institute of Place Management is pleased to share this guest blog by Esther Worboys, IPM Fellow and experienced place pr ...

On Friday 4th April, the Institute of Place Management was delighted to host a delegation of 25 researchers from the Telemark Research Institute, Norway fo ...

The Slovenian government have drawn upon a report published by Manchester Metropolitan researchers to inform amendments to Hospitality Act  The phenomenon ...

Visa, a global leader in digital payments, in partnership with the British Retail Consortium, has launched the third year of Let’s Celebrate Towns, a natio ...