The UK’s national CPD Certification Service has officially recognised the Institute of Place Management as a high-quality provider of continuing professional development.

*This email is intended exclusively for the use of IPM Members and may contain information supplied to IPM on that basis. It therefore should not be distributed to or shared with others without express written permission from the IPM*

CPD MAIL – DECEMBER 2008

(200 points available + additional opportunities)

Welcome to the December edition of the IPM CPD Mail, the monthly one stop shop for all your CPD requirements. Published on the 3rd Monday of each month, the CPD Mail contains links to IPM accredited CPD resources as well as events, enabling you to accrue CPD points on a manageable month by month basis.

Each CPD mail contains links to exclusive new CPD opportunities, as well as a round up of other resources which you will have had chance to access already. We are currently allocating codes to all our resources on an ongoing basis (including the Journal of Place Management & Development and key readings), therefore each month the list of additional CPD opportunities will be added to. For details of how to bank your points, please refer to the bottom of this email.

THIS MONTH'S CPD OPPORTUNITIES

December's edition of the IPM Place Bulletin is available online at:

http://files.placemanagement.org/newsletter/newsletter9/Front_page/newsletter.html

The Bulletin brings together news articles of particular interest to the place management industry plus all the latest updates from the Institute of Place Management.

This month's Bulletin includes news on the importance of green spaces in our public areas, a new healthy living initiative in the UK, and some festive related news including Oxford's unusual choice of festive decoration, the latest from the UK high street in the run up to the big day, and a report on the Light Night scheme which is instilling some much needed illumination into our towns and cities.

CODE: 298163
LINK: http://files.placemanagement.org/newsletter/newsletter9/Front_page/newsletter.html

CPD Mail Resource – RUDI podcast: Creating Urban Subcentres: balancing the local & the global.(60 points available)

Continuing our series of  RUDI’s excellent podcasts; Tim Stonor's presentation at the Building Centre, a presentation from the Securing Successful Densification in our Suburbs, an UrbanBuzz Showcase Seminar – covers key factors related to the creation of successful sub centres, using both national and international examples.

CODE: 953476
LINK: http://www.rudi.net/node/20537

CPD Mail Resource – CABE paper: The Value of Public Space (60 points available)

This publication from the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment offers an insight into how high quality parks and public spaces create economic, social and environmental value. The value of public space shows how cities in the UK and around the world have received far-reaching economic, health and social benefits from making the best of their public spaces.

CODE: 192478
LINK: http://www.cabe.org.uk/AssetLibrary/2021.pdf

ADDITIONAL CPD-MAIL OPPORTUNITIES

Previously featured articles can be accessed via the links to past CPD mails below:

Key reading 1 (60 points available)

A framework for the governance of social enterprise
Chris Low

CODE: 312764
LINK: http://files.placemanagement.org/upload//CPD_Mail_Dec_2008/deckr1.pdf

Key reading 2 (60 points available)

Destination image and destination personality
Hosany, S. Ekinci, Y. & Uysal, M.

CODE: 318567
LINK: http://files.placemanagement.org/upload//CPD_Mail_Dec_2008/deckr2.pdf

Journal of Place Management & Development Academic article (60 points available)

An exploratory study of the contextual stability of SERVQUAL amongst three retail clusters in far North Queensland
Darren Lee-Ross

CODE: 537461
LINK: http://files.placemanagement.org/upload//CPD_Mail_Dec_2008/decjpmdacad.pdf

Journal of Place Management & Development Practitioner article (60 points available)

European shopping centre developments: an industry perspective
Hayley Myers, Julie Gore, Katherine Liu

CODE: 492678
LINK: http://files.placemanagement.org/upload//CPD_Mail_Dec_2008/decjpmdprac.pdf

RUDI Place Making Document

As an added feature of the CPD mail, each month we are offering CPD points for members wishing to read the RUDI produced document: ‘Place Making – Celebrating quality and innovation in urban life’ on a chapter by chapter basis. (60 points per month)

This month’s chapter is the fifth and final instalment, and is entitled ‘Public Places, Public Realm’ (pp. 72-90)

Members can locate the entire document via the link below, for members wishing to obtain a hard copy, please contact gareth@placemanagement.org who will arrange for a copy to be delivered to you free of charge.

CODE (for fifth and final chapter): 718629
LINK: http://files.placemanagement.org/upload/CPD_Mail_August_2008/RUDI_Place_Making.pd

HOW TO BANK YOUR CPD POINTS

STEP 1 - To bank your CPD points, log in to the E-Academy area of www.placemanagement.org.

STEP 2 - Click the link on the left hand menu entitled ‘Bank your CPD’.

STEP 3 - To verify that the CPD activity being banked has been fulfilled, you will need to answer three set questions concerning the given CPD activity. You will be granted three opportunities to answer all three questions correctly, answer incorrectly three times and you will be blocked from banking points this CPD resource.

STEP 4 - If the CPD activity being banked is an event, you will also be requested to answer some short questions concerning the quality of the session itself.

CONTACT

If you have difficulty banking your CPD points, or require assistance, please contact Gareth Roberts (CPD administrator) at gareth@placemanagement.org or call +44 (0)161 247 3780.

Next months CPD mail will be sent out on Monday 19th January 2009.

If you would like to opt-out of IPM email campaigns please click here