Now open to all research associates and research assistants at the University of Sheffield.
What's involved?
Mentoring will supply you with professional guidance to help support you through all stages of your career here and into your next position whether that is within the academic environment or in one of the hundreds of alternative career paths.
Your mentor will be a member of academic staff outside your Dept. All our mentors are trained and experienced in helping researchers to take control of their career through established mentoring and coaching techniques.
Do you want:
- a sounding board
- to know your options
- support in your career choices
- help to focus on your career development
- to discuss Fellowships
- to narrow down your ideas
- to improve your confidence
- to raise your profile as a researcher
- to make new contacts and networks
We have two intakes per year, in March, and in September. You will be matched with a mentor after attending an induction and mentoring skills session and completing an application form via which you will be able to specify your own requirements of the mentor. This will help the mentoring panel to pair you with a mentor of suitable experience and expertise.
Your mentor will be assigned to you for six months and you will be expected to meet a minimum of three times over that period. There will also be the opportunity to attend mentee coffee mornings to discuss progress and outcomes. Mentors can engage with a programme of professional development in coaching and mentoring skills.
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Mentoring expertise
Now open university-wide the programme has been designed and developed in conjunction with world-leading research expertise. Dr Kay Guccione designs and evaluates mentoring and coaching programmes across the University of Sheffield. Please email her to discuss a mentoring need in your department.
Paul Stokes of Sheffield Hallam University facilitates the Mentoring induction/skills workshops. Paul is an experienced researcher, lecturer and consultant and is the subject group leader within the Department of Management at Sheffield Business School.
Kay offers full support for mentoring. If you have any questions about the programme, about your mentee or mentor, techniques to use in mentoring, or you need to know where to look for help, guidance or support please get in touch.
Women academic staff can access a mentor themselves through the Impact and Futures programmes run by Frances Dee in HR. All three programmes align, and existing mentors will not need to re-train to join this programme and mentor a research associate/assistant.
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