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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.
Incorporating good mentoring principles into doctoral supervision
Incorporating good mentoring principles into doctoral supervision
In this chapter, we consider:
- The general benefits to supervisor, doctoral researcher and HEI of incorporating the following good mentoring principles into the supervisory relationship: encouraging a researcher-driven relationship, promoting reflection and confidence building, and role modelling
- Strategies for fostering a supervisory relationship that is driven by the doctoral researcher
- Ensuring that the supervisory relationship nurtures critical reflection and self-confidence
- Ways in which the supervisor can be a role model for the doctoral researcher
- Advice for those considering running mentoring training for supervisors and doctoral researchers in HEIs
Introduction
Doctoral supervision is a complex, two-way relationship that evolves over the duration of at least three years of the doctorate and considerably longer if you are a part-time researcher. ...
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