Social work doctoral students in the UK: A web-based survey and search of the index to theses

British Journal of Social Work

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 548-566

  Scourfield, Jonathan ^a   Maxwell, Nina ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Doctorates; Research capacity building; Social work research

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949299343     PISSN: 00453102     EISSN: 1468263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bcn165     Document Type: Article

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