Important Dates
Registration and Training opens: 11 December 2024
Registration and Training closes: end of business 23 January 2025
If you have not completed both parts of your training by this date, you cannot participate further.
Mentee - Mentor Matching 24, 27 January 2025
Mentoring pairings communicated 28 January
Mentoring Meetings February to July 2025
Mentoring Support Programme beginning in March 2025
12 March 2025 - Half-day Mentoring Cohort Meeting: CPD and networking with programme participants
22 April & 29 May 2025 - Two lunchtime hour-long seminars
Registration for the 2024/25 Mentoring programme is closed.
Check back in the summer for updates on next year or register your interest here.
Participate in 3-easy steps
- Create your Mentee profile on MentorNet (5 min)
- Complete the Self-paced Online Training on QM+ (30-60 min)
- Attend a Training and Information session running in January (30-60 min)
Benefits to Mentees
- Gain 1-to-1 support and perspectives on your career and development
- Reserve time to reflect on important career decisions (approx. 3/10 CPD days*)
- Broaden your professional network
- Receive bespoke support based on your development needs
It is expected that mentees will drive the process, and make good use of their time with a mentor.
Time Commitment
The aim of the scheme is to provide postdocs with 20 hours or more of dedicated reflection time and advice on their own personal career and development plans. This is made up of:
- 1-to-1 time with a mentor (13+ hours)
- Online Training (1-2 hours - mandatory - see Training Tab)
- Half-day networking and CPD-event (3 hr)
- Two lunchtime online seminars (2 x 1hr)
Once mentoring-pairs have been established, it will be left up to the individuals involved to decide on the duration, frequency and structure of their sessions.
Matching
Mentee-mentor matching will be supported through MentorNet. By recruiting an excess of academic staff from across the participating Schools and Institutes, we will build a robust pool of mentors to enable matching success.
Mentees short-list up to 5 academics (either from within your School or Institute or beyond, if you so wish). We then confirm one of your choices, and you can begin your meetings. We keep your previous choices on file, should you require re-matching.
Registration for the 2024/25 Mentoring programme is closed.
Check back in the summer for updates on next year or register your interest here.
Participate in 3-easy steps
- Create your Mentor profile on MentorNet (5 min)
- Complete the Self-paced Online Training on QM+ (30-60 min)
- Attend a Training and Information session running in January (30-60 min)
We are looking for members of academic staff to provide supplemental mentoring to postdoctoral researchers across research groups. We would like to recruit a robust pool of mentors in order to best enable mentor-mentee matching.
Benefits to Mentors
- Develop management and supervision skills and gain confidence in supporting researchers in different career situations
- Learn to apply a coaching approach to your management practice
- Mentoring is included in the Academic Careers Frameworkunder citizenship and inclusion, and can inform reflective narratives for AdvanceHE’s Fellowships
- Time to reflect on your own development and gain additional insight into issues impacting postdocs
It is expected that mentees will drive the process, and make good use of their time with a mentor.
Time Commitment
The aim of the scheme is to provide postdocs with 20 hours or more of dedicated reflection time and advice on their own personal career and development plans.
This is made up of
- 1-to-1 time with a mentor (13 hours)
- Online Training (1-2 hours - mandatory unless you hold a mentoring or coaching qualification)
- Half-day networking and CPD-event (3 hr)
- Two lunchtime seminars (2 x 1hr)
Once mentoring-pairs have been established, it will be left up to the individuals involved to decide on the duration, frequency and structure of their sessions.
Matching
Mentee-mentor matching will be supported through MentorNet. By recruiting an excess of academic staff from across the participating Schools and Institutes, we will build a robust pool of mentors to enable matching success. Mentees will short-list up to 5 academics (either from within their School or Institute or beyond, if they so wish). We then confirm one of their choices, thus enabling meetings to begin.
As we aim to recruit an excess of mentors, not all academics will be matched in this programme. We thank Academic staff colleagues who came forward and welcome non-matched mentors to participate in future rounds of this programme without needing to retrain during a 3-year period.
Exclusions: if you hold formal coaching or mentoring qualifications or if you participated in the 2023 Mentoring Trial, you do not have to complete the training programme. Please make sure you indicate this on your MentorNet profile.
Mandatory Training
Once participants have completed their training, they can be considered for mentee-mentor matching.
If you do not get matched with a mentee, or if you wish to return for successive rounds of this programme, you can do so without having to repeat the training for up to 3 years.
Additional Support Programme
- Mentoring Cohort Support Meeting and Lunch - This networking event will include seminars and a workshop to support the mentoring practice and experience for those involved in the programme.
- Two Lunchtime Webinars - subjects like managing power dynamics, or managing difficult discussions will be covered here. Topics will be finalised at the Cohort Support Meeting.
