Josef Ploner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3080210 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Josef Ploner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Josef |
| FAMILY NAME | Ploner |
| SIGNATURE | PLONER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hull |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6363-7477 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Comparing the Learning Ecologies of International Students in Internationalisation Abroad and at a Distance
This study explores and compares the experiences of international students studying through internationalisation abroad (IA) and at a distance (IaD) at a UK university through the lens of Ecological Systems Model. In doing so, we propose a revised Ecological Systems Model, integrating the co-existing but fluid and liminal virtual/physical and home/host dimensions. Thirty-two interviews were conducted with international students who studied either…
Going beyond the ‘typical’ student? Voicing diversity of experience through biographical encounters with migrant students in Portugal
Research on international student migration has been burgeoning, leading to a more nuanced understanding of international students whose experiences were, for many years, conceptualised in a rather limited way. In this paper, we aim to advance understanding of the diversity and complexity of student migrants’ experiences, by proposing a new interpretive framework, developed through narrative enquiry. Based on an in-depth narrative analysis of 41 …
Strategy and sustainability discourses in higher education partnership building between China and UK
Accompanied by an emergent ‘strategy’ and ‘sustainability’ discourse, international higher education (HE) partnership building has become increasingly orchestrated by non-academic (i.e. operational, and managerial) agents, thereby shifting away from universities’ ‘academic heartland’. The purpose of this article is to scrutinise the frequently used, yet often ill-defined, ‘strategic’ and ‘sustainable’ nature of international partnership building …
Learning to belong? ‘Culture’ and ‘place making’ among children and young people in Hull, UK City of Culture 2017
Despite the rise of ‘child-friendly cities’ internationally, and a growing interest in youth engagement in urban planning, the role of children and young people in culture-led regeneration and ‘place making’ schemes, remains under-researched. Notwithstanding the wealth of research into childhood and youth cultures, little is known about the ways in which the abstract (and perhaps predominantly ‘adult’) notions of ‘culture’ and ‘place’ are negotia…
The influence of cultural capital and mianzi (face) on mature students’ orientation towards higher education in China
In the wider context of national growth and investment in higher education in China, more mature students seek to gain access to university education. Considering the far-reaching socioeconomic and political shifts in contemporary China and its higher education sector in particular, this study explores the experience of mature university students in this country and poses the seemingly simple question as to why these students did not pursue highe…
International students' transitions to UK Higher Education - revisiting the concept and practice of academic hospitality
With the increasing mobility of international students to UK universities, the appropriate facilitation of their transition remains a critical issue in terms of higher education practice and research. Much existing research and practice is characterised by assimilationist approaches to transition where international students are seen to 'adapt to' and 'fit in' seemingly uniform host environments. This study however draws on the concept of 'academ…
Tourism at the Olympic Games
Going far beyond being just a mega sport event, the Olympic Games are, and have been in the past, important settings for tourism and cultural change. Hosting the Olympic Games presents a unique opportunity for countries to promote, regenerate, and develop cities and regions, and to firmly locate them within an increasingly competitive global tourism marketplace. From Athens to Rio de Janeiro, Olympic landmark buildings, 'districts', and 'parks' h…
Resilience, Moorings and International Student Mobilities - Exploring Biographical Narratives of Social Science Students in the UK
Whilst research into the changing landscape of the UK Higher Education (HE) has produced a burgeoning literature on ‘internationalisation’ and ‘transnational student mobility’ over the past few years, still fairly little is known about international students’ experiences on their way to and through the UK higher and further education. Frequently approaching inter- and transnational education as ‘neutral’ by-products of neoliberal globalisation, e…
Tourism, conflict and contested heritage in former Yugoslavia
Although, historically, there have always been travellers crossing the Balkan Peninsula, Todorova (1994) notes that early travellers were usually heading for important centres such as Constantinople or Jerusalem, and considered South-East Europe as a peripheral place where people were just passing through. The region is only really discovered in the eighteenth century along with an increasing interest in the East. More organised forms of tourism …
Tourist literature and the ideological grammar of landscape in the Austrian Danube Valley, ca. 1870–1945
With its allure of transnationalism, border-crossing and timelessness, the Danube, unlike any other European river, has provided a rich and diverse image reservoir for travel and tourism writing for centuries. Symbolizing the continuous flow through space and time, the river metaphor lends itself perfectly to the selected scripting of history as well as the spatial ordering of landscape, both ‘outwardly’ for the journeying tourist as well as ‘inw…
Tourism at the Olympic Games
Narrating regional identity in tourism – sketches from the Austrian Danube valley
This article sketches the processes of regionalisation in the realm of present day tourism. By exploring issues of ‘regional culture’ and ‘diversity’ in Austria, and more particular, in the highly symbolic Danube valley ‘Wachau’, the article shows how the imaginaries of contested cultural spaces – be they ‘regional’, ‘national’ or ‘European’ – are constantly (re-) invented, translated and ‘miniaturised’ through everyday ‘touristic’ narratives and…
Tourism, conflict and contested heritage in former Yugoslavia
Although, historically, there have always been travellers crossing the Balkan Peninsula, Todorova (1994) notes that early travellers were usually heading for important centres such as Constantinople or Jerusalem, and considered South-East Europe as a peripheral place where people were just passing through. The region is only really discovered in the eighteenth century along with an increasing interest in the East. More organised forms of tourism …
International students' transitions to UK Higher Education - revisiting the concept and practice of academic hospitality
With the increasing mobility of international students to UK universities, the appropriate facilitation of their transition remains a critical issue in terms of higher education practice and research. Much existing research and practice is characterised by assimilationist approaches to transition where international students are seen to 'adapt to' and 'fit in' seemingly uniform host environments. This study however draws on the concept of 'academ…
Resilience, Moorings and International Student Mobilities - Exploring Biographical Narratives of Social Science Students in the UK
Whilst research into the changing landscape of the UK Higher Education (HE) has produced a burgeoning literature on ‘internationalisation’ and ‘transnational student mobility’ over the past few years, still fairly little is known about international students’ experiences on their way to and through the UK higher and further education. Frequently approaching inter- and transnational education as ‘neutral’ by-products of neoliberal globalisation, e…
Narrating regional identity in tourism – sketches from the Austrian Danube valley
This article sketches the processes of regionalisation in the realm of present day tourism. By exploring issues of ‘regional culture’ and ‘diversity’ in Austria, and more particular, in the highly symbolic Danube valley ‘Wachau’, the article shows how the imaginaries of contested cultural spaces – be they ‘regional’, ‘national’ or ‘European’ – are constantly (re-) invented, translated and ‘miniaturised’ through everyday ‘touristic’ narratives and…
Tourist literature and the ideological grammar of landscape in the Austrian Danube Valley, ca. 1870–1945
With its allure of transnationalism, border-crossing and timelessness, the Danube, unlike any other European river, has provided a rich and diverse image reservoir for travel and tourism writing for centuries. Symbolizing the continuous flow through space and time, the river metaphor lends itself perfectly to the selected scripting of history as well as the spatial ordering of landscape, both ‘outwardly’ for the journeying tourist as well as ‘inw…
The influence of cultural capital and mianzi (face) on mature students’ orientation towards higher education in China
In the wider context of national growth and investment in higher education in China, more mature students seek to gain access to university education. Considering the far-reaching socioeconomic and political shifts in contemporary China and its higher education sector in particular, this study explores the experience of mature university students in this country and poses the seemingly simple question as to why these students did not pursue highe…
Going beyond the ‘typical’ student? Voicing diversity of experience through biographical encounters with migrant students in Portugal
Research on international student migration has been burgeoning, leading to a more nuanced understanding of international students whose experiences were, for many years, conceptualised in a rather limited way. In this paper, we aim to advance understanding of the diversity and complexity of student migrants’ experiences, by proposing a new interpretive framework, developed through narrative enquiry. Based on an in-depth narrative analysis of 41 …
Tourism at the Olympic Games
Narrating regional identity in tourism – sketches from the Austrian Danube valley
This article sketches the processes of regionalisation in the realm of present day tourism. By exploring issues of ‘regional culture’ and ‘diversity’ in Austria, and more particular, in the highly symbolic Danube valley ‘Wachau’, the article shows how the imaginaries of contested cultural spaces – be they ‘regional’, ‘national’ or ‘European’ – are constantly (re-) invented, translated and ‘miniaturised’ through everyday ‘touristic’ narratives and…
Tourist literature and the ideological grammar of landscape in the Austrian Danube Valley, ca. 1870–1945
With its allure of transnationalism, border-crossing and timelessness, the Danube, unlike any other European river, has provided a rich and diverse image reservoir for travel and tourism writing for centuries. Symbolizing the continuous flow through space and time, the river metaphor lends itself perfectly to the selected scripting of history as well as the spatial ordering of landscape, both ‘outwardly’ for the journeying tourist as well as ‘inw…
Tourism at the Olympic Games
Tourism, conflict and contested heritage in former Yugoslavia
Although, historically, there have always been travellers crossing the Balkan Peninsula, Todorova (1994) notes that early travellers were usually heading for important centres such as Constantinople or Jerusalem, and considered South-East Europe as a peripheral place where people were just passing through. The region is only really discovered in the eighteenth century along with an increasing interest in the East. More organised forms of tourism …
Tourism at the Olympic Games
Going far beyond being just a mega sport event, the Olympic Games are, and have been in the past, important settings for tourism and cultural change. Hosting the Olympic Games presents a unique opportunity for countries to promote, regenerate, and develop cities and regions, and to firmly locate them within an increasingly competitive global tourism marketplace. From Athens to Rio de Janeiro, Olympic landmark buildings, 'districts', and 'parks' h…
Resilience, Moorings and International Student Mobilities - Exploring Biographical Narratives of Social Science Students in the UK
Whilst research into the changing landscape of the UK Higher Education (HE) has produced a burgeoning literature on ‘internationalisation’ and ‘transnational student mobility’ over the past few years, still fairly little is known about international students’ experiences on their way to and through the UK higher and further education. Frequently approaching inter- and transnational education as ‘neutral’ by-products of neoliberal globalisation, e…
The influence of cultural capital and mianzi (face) on mature students’ orientation towards higher education in China
In the wider context of national growth and investment in higher education in China, more mature students seek to gain access to university education. Considering the far-reaching socioeconomic and political shifts in contemporary China and its higher education sector in particular, this study explores the experience of mature university students in this country and poses the seemingly simple question as to why these students did not pursue highe…
International students' transitions to UK Higher Education - revisiting the concept and practice of academic hospitality
With the increasing mobility of international students to UK universities, the appropriate facilitation of their transition remains a critical issue in terms of higher education practice and research. Much existing research and practice is characterised by assimilationist approaches to transition where international students are seen to 'adapt to' and 'fit in' seemingly uniform host environments. This study however draws on the concept of 'academ…
Learning to belong? ‘Culture’ and ‘place making’ among children and young people in Hull, UK City of Culture 2017
Despite the rise of ‘child-friendly cities’ internationally, and a growing interest in youth engagement in urban planning, the role of children and young people in culture-led regeneration and ‘place making’ schemes, remains under-researched. Notwithstanding the wealth of research into childhood and youth cultures, little is known about the ways in which the abstract (and perhaps predominantly ‘adult’) notions of ‘culture’ and ‘place’ are negotia…
Strategy and sustainability discourses in higher education partnership building between China and UK
Accompanied by an emergent ‘strategy’ and ‘sustainability’ discourse, international higher education (HE) partnership building has become increasingly orchestrated by non-academic (i.e. operational, and managerial) agents, thereby shifting away from universities’ ‘academic heartland’. The purpose of this article is to scrutinise the frequently used, yet often ill-defined, ‘strategic’ and ‘sustainable’ nature of international partnership building …
Going beyond the ‘typical’ student? Voicing diversity of experience through biographical encounters with migrant students in Portugal
Research on international student migration has been burgeoning, leading to a more nuanced understanding of international students whose experiences were, for many years, conceptualised in a rather limited way. In this paper, we aim to advance understanding of the diversity and complexity of student migrants’ experiences, by proposing a new interpretive framework, developed through narrative enquiry. Based on an in-depth narrative analysis of 41 …
Comparing the Learning Ecologies of International Students in Internationalisation Abroad and at a Distance
This study explores and compares the experiences of international students studying through internationalisation abroad (IA) and at a distance (IaD) at a UK university through the lens of Ecological Systems Model. In doing so, we propose a revised Ecological Systems Model, integrating the co-existing but fluid and liminal virtual/physical and home/host dimensions. Thirty-two interviews were conducted with international students who studied either…
Geography (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Tourism (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Higher education (4 works) · Higher Education Governance and Development (4 works) · International Student and Expatriate Challenges (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Business (3 works)