Peer to peer support: The disappearing work in the doctoral student experience

Higher Education Research and Development

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 59-70

  Devenish, Rosemerry ^a   Dyer, Sylvia ^a   Jefferson, Therese ^a   Lord, Linley ^a   Van Leeuwen, Sue ^a   Fazakerley, Victor ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Disappearing dynamic; Doctoral students; Funding policies; Higher education; Peer coaching; Peer support; Progress reporting; Study groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 68149089520     PISSN: 07294360     EISSN: 14698366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07294360802444362     Document Type: Article

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