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Competence and competency in higher education, simple terms yet with complex meanings: Theoretical and practical issues for university teachers and assessors implementing Competency-Based Education (CBE) (2021)
Journal Article
Holmes, A. G. D., Polman Tuin, M., & Turner, S. L. (2021). Competence and competency in higher education, simple terms yet with complex meanings: Theoretical and practical issues for university teachers and assessors implementing Competency-Based Education (CBE). Educational Process: International Journal, 10(3), 39-52. https://doi.org/10.22521/edupij.2021.103.3

There are different and conflicting definitions of competence, competency, and competency-based learning. Consequently, multiple interpretations and understandings are held by educators in respect of what these terms mean, when applied to their own t... Read More about Competence and competency in higher education, simple terms yet with complex meanings: Theoretical and practical issues for university teachers and assessors implementing Competency-Based Education (CBE).

Meaningful yet useless? Factors behind the retention of questionable concepts in human geography (2018)
Journal Article
Dymitrow, M., & Brauer, R. (2018). Meaningful yet useless? Factors behind the retention of questionable concepts in human geography. Geografiska annaler. Series B, Human geography, 100(3), 195-219. https://doi.org/10.1080/04353684.2017.1419071

The concepts ‘rural’ and ‘urban’ have long been criticized by geographers for their lack of analytical and explanatory power, yet have remained a vital source for conceptual guidance in human geography. Realizing that the continued use of questionabl... Read More about Meaningful yet useless? Factors behind the retention of questionable concepts in human geography.

Sensationalising Hull: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Theatrical and Literary Connections (2017)
Book Chapter
Hatter, J. (2017). Sensationalising Hull: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Theatrical and Literary Connections. In D. J. Starkey, D. Atkinson, B. McDonagh, S. McKeon, & E. Salter (Eds.), Hull: Culture, History, Place (147-149). Liverpool University Press

Best-selling Victorian sensation fiction author Mary Elizabeth Braddon was (in)famous for novels depicting female bigamists, attempted murder, arson and bribery; anything and everything that shocked Victorian sensibilities. Before she gained internat... Read More about Sensationalising Hull: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Theatrical and Literary Connections.

Landscapes with different logics: A physicalistic approach to semantic conflicts in spatial planning (2017)
Journal Article
Krzysztofik, R., Dymitrow, M., Biegańska, J., Senetra, A., Gavriilidou, E., Nadolu, B., Kantor-Pietraga, I., Grzelak-Kostulska, E., Oureilidou, E., Luches, D., Spórna, T., Teodorescu, D., Wasilewicz-Pszczółkowska, M., Holmertz, G., Szczepańska, A., & Brauer, R. (2017). Landscapes with different logics: A physicalistic approach to semantic conflicts in spatial planning. Quaestiones Geographicae, 36(4), 29-45. https://doi.org/10.1515/quageo-2017-0034

This paper deals with the ways of categorising landscapes as ‘urban’ and ‘rural’ using a physicalist approach, where these terms have special meaning. The aim of this paper is to elaborate on the question whether such a division is still meaningful w... Read More about Landscapes with different logics: A physicalistic approach to semantic conflicts in spatial planning.

Performing rurality. But who? (2017)
Journal Article
Dymitrow, M., & Brauer, R. (2017). Performing rurality. But who?. Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, 38(38), 27-45. https://doi.org/10.1515/bog-2017-0032

Reflective inquiries to better understand ‘the rural’ have tried to embed rural research within the notion of performativity. Performativity assumes that the capacity of language is not simply to communicate but also to consummate action, whereupon c... Read More about Performing rurality. But who?.

Human geography and the hinterland: the case of Torsten Hägerstrand’s ‘belated’ recognition (2017)
Journal Article
Brauer, R., & Dymitrow, M. (2017). Human geography and the hinterland: the case of Torsten Hägerstrand’s ‘belated’ recognition. Moravian Geographical Reports, 25(2), 74-84. https://doi.org/10.1515/mgr-2017-0007

Seeing Human Geography as a nexus of temporally oscillating concepts, this paper investigates the dissemination of scientific ideas with a focus on extra-scientific factors. While scientific progress is usually evaluated in terms of intellectual achi... Read More about Human geography and the hinterland: the case of Torsten Hägerstrand’s ‘belated’ recognition.

Memory on the waterfront in late twentieth-century Hull (2017)
Book Chapter
Byrne, J., & Ombler, A. (2017). Memory on the waterfront in late twentieth-century Hull. In D. J. Starkey, D. Atkinson, B. McDonagh, S. McKeon, & E. Salter (Eds.), Hull: Culture, History, Place (270-301). Liverpool University Press

First paragraph:
At the close of the Second World War, as the port-city of Hull faced the challenge of rebuilding an urban fabric shattered by wartime bombing, its maritime industries prepared to return to business as usual. Hull’s trawl fishery an... Read More about Memory on the waterfront in late twentieth-century Hull.

Dock Development, 1778-1914 (2017)
Book Chapter
Wilcox, M. (2017). Dock Development, 1778-1914. In D. J. Starkey, D. Atkinson, B. McDonagh, S. McKeon, & E. Salter (Eds.), Hull: Culture, History, Place (117-144). Liverpool University Press

First paragraph:
Hull owes its existence to water transport. Located at the mouth of the River Hull, where the deep-water channel of the Humber sweeps along its north bank, it is a natural transhipment point, and although the town (as it is properly... Read More about Dock Development, 1778-1914.

The making of a mosaic: Migration and the port-city of Kingston upon Hull (2017)
Book Chapter
Evans, N. (2017). The making of a mosaic: Migration and the port-city of Kingston upon Hull. In D. J. Starkey, D. Atkinson, B. McDonagh, S. McKeon, & E. Salter (Eds.), Hull: Culture, History, Place (145-177). Liverpool University Press

First paragraph:
When the results of the 2011 UK Census were made public in 2013 the BBC’s Six O’Clock News ran a live television broadcast from the city to herald a remarkable transformation – Hull was now home to a migrant population of 12,000 Eur... Read More about The making of a mosaic: Migration and the port-city of Kingston upon Hull.

Distant-Water Trawlerman: William Oliver, 1884-1959 (2017)
Book Chapter
Starkey, D. J. (2017). Distant-Water Trawlerman: William Oliver, 1884-1959. In D. J. Starkey, D. Atkinson, B. McDonagh, S. McKeon, & E. Salter (Eds.), Hull: Culture, History, Place (207-237). Liverpool University Press

Whaling (Vignette) (2017)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, D. (2017). Whaling (Vignette). In D. Atkinson, B. McDonagh, S. McKeon, E. Salter, & D. J. Starkey (Eds.), Hull: Culture, History, Place. Liverpool University Press

William Papper (Vignette) (2017)
Book Chapter
Wilcox, M. William Papper (Vignette). In D. Atkinson, B. McDonagh, S. McKeon, E. Salter, & D. Starkey (Eds.), Hull: Culture, History, Place. Liverpool University Press

Lilian Bilocca (Vignette) (2017)
Book Chapter
Lavery, B. (2017). Lilian Bilocca (Vignette). In D. Atkinson, B. McDonagh, S. McKeon, E. Salter, & D. Starkey (Eds.), Hull: Culture, History, Place. Liverpool University Press

William Colbeck (Vignette) (2017)
Book Chapter
Robinson, R. (2017). William Colbeck (Vignette). In D. Starkey, D. Atkinson, B. McDonagh, S. McKeon, & E. Salter (Eds.), Hull: Culture, History, Place. Liverpool University Press

Opening paragraph:
People from Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire played a significant role in the ‘Heroic Age’ of Antarctic Exploration (1897-1922). Clements Markham, the President of the Royal Geographical Society, who envisaged and oversaw the... Read More about William Colbeck (Vignette).

The Bounty (Vignette) (2017)
Book Chapter
Robinson, R. (2017). The Bounty (Vignette). In D. Starkey, D. Atkinson, B. McDonagh, S. McKeon, & E. Salter (Eds.), Hull: Culture, History, Place. Liverpool University Press

Opening paragraph:
The shipbuilding firm owned by the Blaydes family built the Bethia in their North End Yard on the River Hull, close to their base at Blaydes House, High Street (now Hull University’s Maritime Historical Studies Centre). The Bethia... Read More about The Bounty (Vignette).

Auto-parameterized shape grammar for constructing Islamic geometric motif-based structures (2016)
Book Chapter
Sayed, Z., Ugail, H., Palmer, I., Purdy, J., & Reeve, C. (2016). Auto-parameterized shape grammar for constructing Islamic geometric motif-based structures. In A. Sourin, M. Gavrilova, & C. Tan (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Transactions on Computational Science XXVIII (146-162). (Special Issue on Cyberworlds and Cybersecurity). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53090-0_8

The complex formation of Islamic Geometric Patterns (IGP) is one of the distinctive features in Islamic art and architecture. Many have attempted to reproduce these patterns in digital form, using various pattern generation techniques, in 2D. Shape g... Read More about Auto-parameterized shape grammar for constructing Islamic geometric motif-based structures.

Land or people? On the iatrogenesis of conflation (2016)
Journal Article
Dymitrow, M., & Brauer, R. (in press). Land or people? On the iatrogenesis of conflation. Acta Geobalcanica, 2(2), 63-75. https://doi.org/10.18509/AGB.2016.07

In a wish to abandon essentialism to contingency, this paper looks into whether the rural-urban binary could be a cultural burden so incompatible with the layered realities of advanced deprivation that instead of helping the deprived, it deprives the... Read More about Land or people? On the iatrogenesis of conflation.

Quality of life in rural areas: A topic for the rural development policy? (2014)
Journal Article
Brauer, R., & Dymitrow, M. (2014). Quality of life in rural areas: A topic for the rural development policy?. Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, 25(25), 25-54. https://doi.org/10.2478/bog-2014-0028

Contemporary transformations of rural areas involve changes in land uses, economic perspectives, connectivity, livelihoods, but also in lifestyles, whereupon a traditional view of ‘the rural’ and, consequently, of ‘rural development’ no longer holds.... Read More about Quality of life in rural areas: A topic for the rural development policy?.