Rank hypocrises: The insult of the REF

Rank Hypocrises: The Insult of the REF

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1-118

  Sayer, Derek ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781473910270     Document Type: Book

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