Diversity in collaborative research communities: A multicultural, multidisciplinary thesis writing group in public health

Studies in Continuing Education

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 65-81

  Guerin, Cally ^a   Xafis, Vicki ^a   Doda, Diana V ^a   Gillam, Marianne H ^a   Larg, Allison J ^a   Luckner, Helene ^a   Jahan, Nasreen ^a   Widayati, Aris ^a   Xu, Chuangzhou ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

doctoral education; multi disciplinary; multicultural; peer learning; writing groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874409949     PISSN: 0158037X     EISSN: 1470126X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0158037X.2012.684375     Document Type: Article

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