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  1. University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

    Jonathan Drennan

  2. University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Marie Clarke, Abbey Hyde & Yurgos Politis

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    Jung Cheol Shin

  2. CIPES, Faculty of Economics, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Pedro Teixeira

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Drennan, J., Clarke, M., Hyde, A., Politis, Y. (2017). Academic Identity in Higher Education. In: Shin, J., Teixeira, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9553-1_300-1

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