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Place Alliance has issued a review examining its work and impact after five years, from 2014 and 2019, explaining \u2018What has been the impact of the Place Alliance on the place quality agenda in England (and beyond)?\u2019.<\/h3>\nPlace Alliance has issued a review examining its work and impact after five years, from 2014 and 2019, explaining \u2018What has been the impact of the Place Alliance on the place quality agenda in England (and beyond)?\u2019.<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n
The Place Alliance writes:<\/p>\n
The evaluation considered three primary areas of work (1)\u00a0Evidence<\/strong>\u00a0(research and audit work) (2)\u00a0Knowledge<\/strong>\u00a0(guidance production and skills enhancement work) and (3)\u00a0Promotion<\/strong>\u00a0(challenging existing practice and connecting stakeholders).<\/p>\n The evaluation utilised a range of approaches to understand the work and impact of the Place Alliance. These included interviews with partners and observations of Place Alliance initiatives as well as analysis of a range of project documents and reports.<\/p>\n Over its five years, the Place Alliance has made seven primary contributions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Place Alliance acts as a knowledge broker, helping to translate and amplify messages arising from\u00a0its research, collaborations and communications activities, enabling them to reach policy-makers,\u00a0practitioners and other audiences. In doing so it has helped to keep place quality on the national agenda at a time of austerity and disengagement across the country and is significantly implicated in the national revival in interest in this field since 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n The award of the Sir Peter Hall Award for Wider Engagement by the Royal Town Planning Institute in 2016, and the Association of European Schools of Planning Best Published Paper for the\u00a0und<\/span>erpinning research, both confirm the importance of this initiative.<\/span><\/p>\n The Place Alliance began with Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) research project AH\/J013706\/1: Evaluating the governance of design in the built environment \u2013 the CABE experiment and beyond, conducted between January 2013 and August 2014. The underpinning research, published in peer-reviewed journals and a book, both informs and has been informed by the Place Alliance initiative.<\/p>\n Place Alliance initiatives encompass a range of actions and\u00a0tools, from evidence reports, practical guides, campaigns,\u00a0networking events, to conferences. Place Alliance plays an\u00a0active role in supporting the network by organising design\u00a0training for public sector professionals and facilitating\u00a0cross-disciplinary working groups as a space to organise\u00a0specific areas for action. Place Alliance influences policy\u00a0by participating in a collective campaigning effort and by\u00a0generating evidence to inform the work of key decisionmakers.<\/p>\n In order the evaluate the reach and impact of the Place\u00a0Alliance, a network analysis was conducted aiming to\u00a0identify all the stakeholders or interest groups within the\u00a0Place Alliance\u2019s stakeholder network.<\/p>\nSummary of Impact<\/h3>\n
The Underpinning Research<\/h3>\n
Place Alliance Initiatives<\/h3>\n
Tracing the Place Alliance network<\/h3>\n