All together now? Building disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research capacity in social work and social care

British Journal of Social Work

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 208-226

  Sharland, Elaine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

disciplinarity; inter disciplinarity; Research capacity; social work and social care

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859121498     PISSN: 00453102     EISSN: 1468263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bcr061     Document Type: Article

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