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.
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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.
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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
