This programme is open to all Queen Mary Postdocs* looking for supplemental career and professional development advice from a member of academic staff.
Mentees and mentors will engage in up to 20 hours of time over 6-months, which works out to roughly 15 hours of 1-to-1 mentoring time, and 5 hours of training and support.
Postdocs will use approximately 3/10 of their annual CPD days on this programme.
Registration and Training opens: 11 December 2024
Registration and Training closes: end of business 23 January 2025If you have not completed both parts of your training by this date, you cannot participate further.
Mentee - Mentor Matching 24, 27 January 2025Mentoring pairings communicated 28 January
Mentoring Meetings February to July 2025
Mentoring Support Programme beginning in March 202512 March 2025 - Half-day Mentoring Cohort Meeting: CPD and networking with programme participants22 April & 29 May 2025 - Two lunchtime hour-long seminars
It is expected that mentees will drive the process, and make good use of their time with a mentor.
The aim of the scheme is to provide postdocs with 20 hours or more of dedicated reflection time and advice on their own personal career and development plans. This is made up of:
Once mentoring-pairs have been established, it will be left up to the individuals involved to decide on the duration, frequency and structure of their sessions.
Mentee-mentor matching will be supported through MentorNet. By recruiting an excess of academic staff from across the participating Schools and Institutes, we will build a robust pool of mentors to enable matching success.
Mentees short-list up to 5 academics (either from within your School or Institute or beyond, if you so wish). We then confirm one of your choices, and you can begin your meetings. We keep your previous choices on file, should you require re-matching.
We are looking for members of academic staff to provide supplemental mentoring to postdoctoral researchers across research groups. We would like to recruit a robust pool of mentors in order to best enable mentor-mentee matching.
The aim of the scheme is to provide postdocs with 20 hours or more of dedicated reflection time and advice on their own personal career and development plans.
This is made up of
Mentee-mentor matching will be supported through MentorNet. By recruiting an excess of academic staff from across the participating Schools and Institutes, we will build a robust pool of mentors to enable matching success. Mentees will short-list up to 5 academics (either from within their School or Institute or beyond, if they so wish). We then confirm one of their choices, thus enabling meetings to begin.
As we aim to recruit an excess of mentors, not all academics will be matched in this programme. We thank Academic staff colleagues who came forward and welcome non-matched mentors to participate in future rounds of this programme without needing to retrain during a 3-year period.
Mandatory Training
Once participants have completed their training, they can be considered for mentee-mentor matching.
If you do not get matched with a mentee, or if you wish to return for successive rounds of this programme, you can do so without having to repeat the training for up to 3 years.
Additional Support Programme
For the purposes of this mentoring programme, a "postdoc" mentee is a member of research staff with doctoral qualifications, and includes job titles like postdoctoral research assistant or associate, PDRA, postdoctoral research fellow, and clinical research fellow. Postdocs are in the career stage between doctoral qualification and their first academic staff appointment.
The mentoring programme is also open to other staff types who are actively involved in research (e.g., teaching fellows). Academic staff can only be mentors on this programme.
Late-stage doctoral students who will qualify and take up a postdoctoral research or teaching positions at Queen Mary in the next 6-months can also sign-up.