So what is the IMPF?
The Ivey Management and Policy Forum (IMPF) is Ivey's only student-led organization with a public policy subject matter focus.
The IMPF is also Ivey's only research organization that is student-led, faculty advised.
What is the goal of the IMPF?
To Educate
Internally:
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Provide students and opportunity to engage with and learn about public policy issues,
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Enable students to gain skills related to public policy analysis,
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Give students hands on policy experience,
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Expose students to policy-related career opportunities
Externally:
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Expose young professionals, business school students, to key public policy issues and common sense, evidence- based solutions to address them,
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Provide the intellectually curious with concise, easy-to-read, pieces of research
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Expand Ivey's academic offering, filling a gap in the type of research being produced
How do we achieve this goal?
Policy Events
Event Types: Policy-focused panels, webinars, networking opportunities, case competitions, and workshops.
Recent Examples: Navigating the Canadian Policy Landscape with Amy Janzwood, Canadian Policy in Practice with the C. D. Howe Institute, How the Sausage is Made with the Lawrence National Centre.
Research Production
Intended Audience: Young professionals, university students, those interested in policy without time to research themselves.
How it helps achieve our goal: Externally: Promote common
sense, evidence-based policy solutions to pressing problems.
Internally: Provide Ivey students opportunity to gain hands on experience with policy analysis and publish research.
IMPF POLICYTHON
Intended Audience: Young professionals, university students, those interested in policy without time to research themselves.
How it helps achieve our goal:
One of the only policy-based case competitions in Canada, giving students hands-on policy experience.
Offer students the opportunity to learn from and network with professionals in the policy space.
Partners
