Postgraduate Research Students’ Experience: It’s All About Balancing Living

The Routledge International Handbook of Higher Education

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 181-193

  McCormack, Coralie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

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EID: 85144915883     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203882221-14     Document Type: Chapter

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