Is mentoring for you?

Testimonials

From a mentee in GOS ICH PPP Dept:
“Mentoring, in its many forms, has had a positive impact on my personal development. One of my most powerful mentorship relationships was created through a formal mentoring scheme. Before this, I had thought that informal mentorship with your line managers or research supervisors would be better than a meeting with someone who didn’t really know my environment, or already know me. My mentor, who was an academic in a completely different field, took her mentorship role very seriously, taking me through what we could each expect to gain from our meetings as long as we both committed fully to them. She was able to draw on lots of techniques to use to help me define and then understand what I would need to do to achieve my career and life goals. She was also well informed on equality, diversity and inclusion, and understood that I would have different life experiences from her. Her obvious comfort when discussing EDI concerns meant that we didn’t actually have to focus on it during our discussions, and could instead focus on me as an individual. 

The ICH and wider UCL mentoring scheme has a similar mentorship framework – mentors and mentees are trained, which should help you to get the best out of the relationship. Additionally, the ICH Race Equity Group will be asking potential mentors to confirm that they have read the UCL ‘Let’s talk about race’ toolkit as part of their training, so that mentees from under-represented groups can go into the relationship confident that their mentor has some sort of awareness of these issues.”