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Special Section: Celebrating Failure: A path towards opening up disciplinary debate

Avoiding failure in academia: strategies from non-Western early career researchers in the UK

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Pages 782-806 | Received 10 Nov 2021, Accepted 22 Jan 2023, Published online: 17 May 2023

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