The Use of Piloting in an Application for Funding.
This article addresses the dearth of reports of pilot studies by describing one used to strengthen a funding application for a collaborative project between the Lampeter and Aberystwyth colleges of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales. Piloting helped the article authors to re-formulate and g...
| Published in: | Social Research Update no. 45; pp. 1 - 5 |
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University of Surrey
Spring2005
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