Dear Fellows,
Our 1-2-1 mentoring scheme offers early career researchers mentorship by Academy Fellows and has proven extremely valuable since its 2002 launch with over 370 pairs being made. Although Fellows may opt out if approached, those that are mentors report to us that they find the experience as rewarding as it is for the mentee. Read about the mentoring scheme here.
Prospective mentees identify Fellows for the office to approach using the Academy website which now includes about 200 ‘mentor profiles’. These briefly outline the areas of expertise which you can offer through mentorship and are a great aid when matching mentees with Fellows. If you haven’t already, we encourage you to write a short profile for our highly regarded mentoring scheme which is a crucial plank of strategic objective of nurturing the next generation.
You can provide your profile using the login sent to you in January. If you need any inspiration, you can read the profiles of other Fellows, for example, those of Professor David Adams FMedSci or Professor Moira Whyte OBE FMedSci. You need to be logged in to see the mentoring profiles.
Please contact Catriona Hands should you have any questions: mentoring@acmedsci.ac.uk or 020 3176 2160.
Thank you for your support!
Professor Sir John Tooke PMedSci