Research Guides: Mentoring Guide: Resources for Mentors

The resources on this page are organized in four categories:

Self-guided education: This category includes resources such as webinars, workshops, courses, podcasts, guides and tools that are designed to help you learn more about mentoring and become a better mentor and/or a mentee.

Trainings & Platforms: These include formal trainings provided by organizations or individuals who specialize in mentoring. These are usually paid resources, or they may be provided through an institutional subscription so make sure you check whether your institution is a member.

Institutional Examples: These resources are a showcase of how different institutions are addressing the topic of mentorship.

Reports & Articles: These are comprehensive documents that address mentoring from multiple perspectives, from theory to application, and a rationale for why good mentoring is important.

Self-Guided Education: guides/tools/workshops/webinars/courses

Ten simple rules for establishing a mentorship program- a summary of recommendations to consider when designing and establishing mentorship programs. These recommendations are based on the collective knowledge and experiences of 4 different emerging and established mentorship programs and can be adapted across various mentorship settings or contexts.
Mentoring Compact- this document summarizes the primary roles and responsibilities of the faculty advisor and graduate student, and is intended to facilitate conversation regarding financial support, degree requirements, research expectations, and professional development.
FAIM (Faculty Advancing Inclusive Mentoring) Practical Toolkit- The FAIM Practical Toolkit for Mentoring in Graduate Education includes tools and resources to support mentor and mentee pairs as they collaboratively establish, communicate, and refine mutual expectations within their mentoring relationships.
How to Mentor Graduate Students: A Guide for Faculty- This handbook is devoted to the role of faculty members, though there is a companion volume for graduate students. It includes mentoring plan templates and campus resources that can assist you in cultivating a positive mentor-mentee relationship.

Mutual Mentoring Guide
This guide describes an innovative, faculty-driven, and flexible model of “Mutual Mentoring” that encourages faculty at all stages of the academic career to think differently about how they approach and engage in mentoring relationships.
Qualities of Good and Poor Mentors
Provides a list of recommendations for what a good adviser should and shouldn't do.

Reports & Articles

Trainings & Platforms

NCFDD (National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity) - A professional development, training, and mentoring community for faculty, postdocs, and graduate students available through UNH's institutional subscription.
National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) - Provides researchers across all career stages with the evidence-based mentorship and professional development programming that emphasizes the benefits and challenges of diversity, inclusivity and culture.
CIMER Mentoring - The program develops, implements and evaluates mentor and mentee training using theoretically-grounded, evidence-based, and culturally-responsive training interventions and investigations.
CITI program- the mentoring and healthy research environments module within the CITI platform offers resources and helpful advice on how to create a healthy mentoring environment. *Type "University System of New Hampshire" to find UNH on the list of member institutions and then create an account to access materials.
Katherine Stewart Consulting - Helps faculty and academic leaders use their personal strengths and values to build successful and joyful careers.

Institutional Examples

Network for Enriched Academic Relationships (NEAR)- interdisciplinary mentoring network for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars through which students can find mentors regarding issues that lie beyond coursework, comps and dissertations.
Mentoring at Mizzou, U of Missouri- The program uses Entering Mentoring curricula developed by the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research.
Inclusive Research Mentor/People Manager Training- provides the organizational management and evidence-based pedagogical theory on how to effectively supervise, train and advise researchers from diverse backgrounds, and how to do so inclusively while managing the inevitable role conflict between these three sets of responsibilities and power differentials.
Peer Mentoring Program, U of Colorado Boulder- Providing support, guidance and connection. Peer mentors serve as graduate student life experts and they may have suggestions about work-life balance, advisor/advisee relationships, etc.