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Indicating key educational trends and transformational agendas in higher education.

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  1. Department of Learning and Teaching Enhancement, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Kay Sambell

  2. Emerita Professor, Leeds Beckett University and Independent consultant, Newcastle, UK

    Sally Brown

  3. Department of Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK

    Linda Graham

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Sambell, K., Brown, S., Graham, L. (2017). Introduction. In: Professionalism in Practice. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54552-3_1

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