edSeed (United States, Gaza, Lebanon) "Edseed is about narrating stories of youth and bringing them closer to donors in the USA; participating in networking; and building a network for higher education of refugees to address policy issues, mentor students".
In addition to being given written handouts highlighting the major issues, mentors were given written materials (such as leaflets produced by the Health Promotion Agency, Northern Ireland) which they could share with the women whom they mentored.
Grantsmanship, departmental politics, team building, gender and family issues, teaching, mentoring, and working toward tenure also received close scrutiny.
While this sample of students is small, it is representative of the larger issue of mentoring in STEM (Collins 2017).
It's clear that mentoring skills are important, but I wonder if the answer to mentoring issues lies in institutes and programs?
The Research Tools button takes you to a page that describes mentoring issues and provides statistical support.
He conducts research on a wide range of workforce and workplace issues, including diversity, mentoring, work-life alignment, wellness, engagement and workplace policies and effectiveness.
Beyond salary, what also emerges from the results of the qualitative interviews is that health care workers in the informal settlement are more concerned with management and motivational issues - allowances, mentoring support from the supervisor, and stagnation with regard to promotion.
Activities are likely to include short-term placements of African specialists in relevant Australian institutions; workshops in Africa on the most pressing biosecurity issues; a mentoring programme and funding to help participants develop biosecurity action plans at national and regional level.
The postdoc issue sometimes gets cast as an employment issue or a mentoring issue.
