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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 to support networking
Mentoring to support networking
In this chapter, we consider:
- The benefits of having a strong network
- Various opportunities for building an effective professional network
- How mentoring can help mentees overcome shyness and feeling uncomfortable about networking
- Mentoring to support effective networking at conferences and symposia, through learned societies and special interest groups, in the virtual world and nearer to home
- How mentors can support researchers to network strategically as a long-term project and to avoid the pitfalls of networking
Introduction
Effective networking is an essential skill for a researcher and can contribute considerably to your career success whether you choose to stay within academia or seek a career in another field. Networking is making, sustaining, and ultimately benefiting from formal and informal connections with others within and outside ...
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