Mentoring

The Division has its own mentoring scheme, designed to support the development of academic and professional staff. 

Aim

The aim is to support the development of academic and professional staff in the Division by promoting mentoring in the Division.

Who will be mentored

Postdocs, research fellows, lecturers and teaching fellows are required to choose two academic mentors, who are currently in academic roles above themselves. For postdocs, one of these will be your supervisor (so you only need to find one other). The programme is optional for senior lecturers, readers and professors. Each member of staff can limit themselves to three mentees, but there is no upper limit.

How mentoring will work

• For new staff, mentor assignments should be within 6 months of arrival.
• It is up to the mentee to contact potential mentors.
• Once mentors have been confirmed, mentees are to email their departmental EO with the names of their confirmed mentors.
• Meetings with mentors should also be logged by emailing biosciences.mentors@ucl.ac.uk.
• All responsibility for arranging and logging meetings lies with the mentee.
• The mentor is not required to undertake training, however a mentoring handbook can be downloaded here. 
• Meetings with each mentor are to be held at least once a year.

Departmental Mentoring Facilitators

Each HoRD has appointed Mentoring Facilitators in each Department to oversee the programme and ensure that mentors are selected and that the required meetings take place. The facilitators are as follows:

• CDB – Prof Sandip Patel, patel.s@ucl.ac.uk
• GEE – Prof  Julia Day, j.day@ucl.ac.uk
• NPP – Prof Josef Kittler, j.kittler@ucl.ac.uk
• SMB – Dr Kostas Thalassinos, k.thalassinos@ucl.ac.uk

If you have any questions, please contact your Departmental Mentoring Facilitator in the first instance.

More information on coaching and mentoring at UCL can be found here.