Feeding innovation with Learning Lunches: Contextualising academic innovation in higher education

Journal of Further and Higher Education

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 411-422

  Dobbins, Kerry ^a  

^a BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

diversity; initiative; innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952772770     PISSN: 0309877X     EISSN: 14699486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03098770903272495     Document Type: Article

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