Borrowing brainpower – sharing insecurities. Lessons learned from a doctoral peer writing group

Studies in Higher Education

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1092-1105

  Wegener, Charlotte ^a   Meier, Ninna ^b   Ingerslev, Karen ^c  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Danish Institute for Local and Regional Government Research   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

boundary; education; innovation; learning; writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907891888     PISSN: 03075079     EISSN: 1470174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2014.966671     Document Type: Article

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