'There are other people out there!' Successful postgraduate peer groups and research communities at a New Zealand university

Higher Education Research and Development

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 695-705

  Buissink Smith, Nell ^a   Hart, Simon ^a   van der Meer, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

completion; peer support; postgraduate education; student support

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880949733     PISSN: 07294360     EISSN: 14698366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2013.777034     Document Type: Article

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