Research policy and academic performativity: Compliance, contestation and complicity

Studies in Higher Education

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1162-1174

  Leathwood, Carole ^a   Read, Barbara ^b  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

academics; audit; gender; research policy; resistance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886417227     PISSN: 03075079     EISSN: 1470174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2013.833025     Document Type: Article

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