Research Guides: Mentoring Guide: Resources for Leaders

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/workshop/webinar/course

Empowering Senior Higher Education Leaders in Developing an Equitable Research Ecosystem: A Workshop - strategies and resources for developing actionable plans that integrate mentorship, well-being, and professional development into the experiences of faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students.
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.

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.

Trainings and 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.
Katherine Stewart Consulting - Helps faculty and academic leaders use their personal strengths and values to build successful and joyful careers.