Professional doctorate programmes in social work: The current state of provision in the UK

British Journal of Social Work

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 567-582

  Scourfield, Jonathan ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Doctoral study; Practitioner research; Research and evaluation; Social work education

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949303677     PISSN: 00453102     EISSN: 1468263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bcn139     Document Type: Article

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