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Student Voices, Expertise, and Welfare Within British Universities in the Mid-Twentieth-Century

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Everyday Welfare in Modern British History: Experience, Expertise and Activism, Pages: 267 - 288

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The contemporary student is extensively surveyed about their experiences of university provision and their opinions about the extent to which their institutions attend to their health and welfare. This chapter looks to some of the ways that students articulated their views of university health and w...

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Published in: Everyday Welfare in Modern British History: Experience, Expertise and Activism
ISBN: 9783031649868 9783031649875
ISSN: 2524-8960 2524-8979
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2025
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