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Mentorship can be a rewarding experience for both the mentor and the mentee. Within this context, this book provides guidance on how to set up mentorship programmes in your institutions, and the skills of an effective mentor, including: • Mentorship for transition points, • Skills development needed for publication, funding application and networking, • Mentorship for performing supervision duties. This is a practical and easy-to-use guide that draws on the editors’ extensive experience, and an invaluable tool for practitioners, career advisors and academics working in research and skills development.
Mentoring at transition points
Overview
In any long-term academic career, and indeed in any career, there are major turning points that mark some form of transition. Whether the transition relates to career progression, a change of work focus or work status, or a change of work location, they often mark the point when careers are at their most exciting, but also at their most ambiguous. One reason for the ambiguity, as with any experience that is new, is the element of the unknown – the element of discovery – that underlies the transition. Transition points require us to consider our options and to make decisions and so are the time when we might need the guidance of someone who has already ...
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