Interested in helping create better mentoring practices? Please fill out this survey by eLife Ambassadors:

Mentoring:

Mentoring is critical to success in research environments but reports show that the quality of mentorship is not what it needs to be to ensure mentee success:

https://ecrlife.org/2019/03/05/assessing-the-quality-of-mentorship-in-academia/

eLife Ambassadors:

eLife Ambassadors have designed a survey to assess the quality of mentorship in research institutions around the globe from the perspective of early-career researchers. Due to career stage requirements, we have generated one survey for researchers pre-independence (i.e. graduate and postdoc level) and one for junior faculty (pre-tenure/assistant and tenure/associate professorship). Both surveys ask whether respondents receive sufficient mentoring from more seasoned/senior colleagues.

Who should take this Survey?

eLife Ambassadors welcome all researchers around the world (5 continents) who are being mentored as graduate researchers (Masters or PhD candidates), Postdoctoral researchers,  independent junior group leaders (assistant or associate scientists, lecturers and professors) to take our survey.

Why you should take this Survey?

Please take our survey. It is anonymous and only takes 4-6 minutes to fill this survey! We aim to surface what mentees believe is most important for a positive mentoring experience and to identify common gaps in skills or resources that can be addressed.

Results:

eLife Ambassadors we will publish the results in the same blog (elife ECR blog) and hope to create recommendations for better mentoring practices.

The Survey:

The Pre-independence (graduate and postdoctoral researcher) survey

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfF5fRjccNG78fn8UQRa9UwB7CmYnASB4eTbtl5vMIyJXLOBw/viewform