Pivoting the centre: Reflections on undertaking qualitative interviewing in academia

Qualitative Research

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 461-475

  Gunasekar, Chrys ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Academics; Identities; Interviews; Reflexivity; Universities

Indexed keywords

EID: 35548998296     PISSN: 14687941     EISSN: 17413109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468794107082302     Document Type: Article

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