Mentoring

Information about the Joint Mentoring Scheme 

The Cancer Institute is part of the FPHS cross-institute mentoring initiative, a combined mentoring scheme with seven other UCL Institutes: Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health; Institute of Global Health; Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology; Institute of Health Informatics; Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Institute for Women's Health; Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care; and The Institute of Cardiovascular Science. 

Staff at all levels, and students (2nd year PhD onwards) across the participating Institutes are invited to apply. Our regular mentoring training sessions are aimed at both mentors and mentees - to explore what mentoring is, what it involves and how it works so you can make a start to set up your mentoring relationship.

A mentor can help you gain impartial advice and encouragement in a supportive relationship where you can bounce ideas around. This can help you develop your career, develop professional networks, set a work/life balance, or transition to a new role. As a mentor you can further your own personal development, widen your understanding of UCL and how it works, and enhance your job satisfaction through supporting the development of others.

How to join the scheme

1. Attend a mentoring training session

• Come to a cross institute workshop advertised around the building or through email communications.
• Online training through Moodle using the self-enrolment key: Mentoring2021

2. Join the scheme

• Once you have completed the training you have the option of joining as a mentor, mentee or both.
• Instructions on how to join as either or both are given at the end of the course.

3. Matching and establishing a mentoring relationship

• When you join as a mentee you will be able to select from a list of mentors (from across all eight Institutes) based on the experience or expertise they can offer.
• As agreement is then made between mentor and mentee for the frequency and content of the meetings, and the period of time the meetings should continue. After this, the mentee and mentor feedback their experiences to the mentoring steering group and can then either continue in the mentoring programme (with the same or different mentor-mentee pairing) or leave the programme.

CI Mentoring Champions

• Nnenna Kanu
• Lucia Cottone 
• Yasmin Morris