ACE Mentorship Scheme 2

ACE offers a mentorship scheme that takes advantage of its interdisciplinary membership and early career network to provide ongoing mentoring support, opportunities, and training to researchers.

This scheme aims to strengthen research connections and promote early career development in the ACE network by matching mentees (PhDs, postdocs, and new PIs) to mentors who can provide support, advice, and share experiences. 

 By including a wide breadth of participant research backgrounds and career stages, the scheme also aims to: promote diversity in the content discussed during mentoring relationships;  offers flexible mentoring arrangements to its members; and allows early career researchers to gain mentoring experience.

What is a mentor? 

A mentor is someone who provides support and guidance to a colleague through positive conversations about topics related to their colleague’s career and professional development, offering advice and experiences where appropriate. The mentoring role can be performed effectively in different ways and can be adaptable to specific mentoring relationships. 

man mentoring group

This scheme offers flexible mentoring options. Your mentors can be: 

  • A peer: Similar career stage where mentor and mentee roles are shared 
  • Near career: A late PhD or postdoc 
  • Far career: A new to late PI

We encourage early career researchers (late PhDs and postdocs) to sign up to be mentors, as near career mentoring relationships provide valuable perspectives.  

You can meet your mentor: 

  • 1:1 ("on your tod"): Mentor and mentee meet one-to-one together 
  • In a group (“with your pod”): A mentor meets with a few mentees at the same time  
Two people talking
On your tod
4 people talking
With your pod

Sign up:  

Please read our general guidelines below before signing up to the scheme. 

Guidelines

To become a mentee or a mentor, or both, fill in the form linked below. This is an ongoing opt-in scheme and you will be assigned a mentor and/or mentee if you engage fully with the questions and information required in the sign-up form. 

 

Want to give us feedback or have suggestions on how this scheme could be improved?

Please fill in our anonymous feedback form or contact a mentorship officer directly: XX@ed.ac.uk

 

 

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