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KNOWLEDGE CAFÉS IN ACADEMIA: A VEHICLE FOR KNOWLEDGE SHARING

Desireé Cranfield Orcid Logo, Sue Evans, David Gurteen, Isabella Venter

ICERI2021 Proceedings, Volume: 14th

Swansea University Authors: Desireé Cranfield Orcid Logo, Sue Evans

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DOI (Published version): 10.21125/iceri.2021.2058

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Higher Education Institutions’ academic culture can be quite hierarchical, competitive, and individualist, where the focus for advancement is very much on publishing. For new and relatively new staff, entry into the academic context can be viewed as a highly individualised, and self‐directed process...

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ISBN: 2340-1095 978-84-09-34549-6
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