Performance anxiety in academia: Tensions within research assessment exercises in an age of austerity

Policy Futures in Education

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1101-1116

  Holland, Charlotte ^a   Lorenzi, Francesca ^a   Hall, Tony ^b  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

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EID: 85006455973     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14782103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1478210316664263     Document Type: Article

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