Rising stars: The career development of research centre directors

Career Development International

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 135-143

  Roworth Stokes, Seymour ^a   Perren, Lew ^b  

^a Surrey Institute of Art and Design   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Higher education; Project management; Public sector; Research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986165655     PISSN: 13620436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13620430010329547     Document Type: Article

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