Researcher Mentoring Program for Early Career Researchers
- Do you want to become a more successful researcher?
- Do you want to build your research profile?
- Are you strategising for future academic promotions?
- Would you benefit from the support and guidance of an experienced, senior researcher?
The Flinders University Researcher Mentoring Program pairs early career researchers (ECRs) with senior academics. Through the Program, senior researchers support ECRs to develop their research careers, meet their research aspirations and goals, and strategise for future academic success.
This Researcher Mentoring Program also provides an opportunity for ECRs to create a University-wide community with their fellow mentees who are at similar career stages (within 8 years post-PhD). This ECR community serves as a source of support and information for the mentees during the Program and beyond.
This Program runs from March to November each year. In the weeks leading up to the official launch in March, we hold sessions to provide mentees and mentors with information about the Program, expectations, and guidance about mentoring. During the Program, each mentee–mentor pair meet regularly, according to the schedules they decide. In addition, the cohort of mentees gather for three Roundtable Workshops to discuss topics of relevance to their career stage.
For more information including the program overview, eligibility criteria for mentees and mentors, and key dates for 2025, please see the Program Guidelines.
Expressions of interest are now open for the 2025 Program (see details below). Successful applicants will be notified in January 2025.
Applications
Applications are by expression of interest for both mentees and mentors. Applications will close COB Monday 25 November 2024.
- To express your interest as a mentee, please complete this survey.
- To express your interest as a mentor, please complete this survey.
This Program is coordinated by Dr Jen Beaudry, Manager, (Researcher Training, Development and Communication).
Message from the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research)
We are pleased to offer the Flinders University Researcher Mentoring Program for Early Career Researchers in 2025.
The Program is an opportunity for early career researchers (ECRs) to benefit from the support and valuable skills and knowledge of senior researchers at Flinders. This Program has served more than 280 ECRs since 2012. The feedback from the mentees has been consistently positive, highlighting improvements to their research profiles and well-being. I personally participated as a mentor in this program and found it an extremely rewarding experience.
The University values the “culture of care” and wealth of experience that our senior academic staff bring to mentoring our early career researchers. I strongly encourage researchers at all stages of their careers to participate in this Program either as mentees or mentors.
Professor Raymond Chan
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research)
First Nations Researchers Collective
The First Nations Researchers Collective at Flinders University provides a supporting, reciprocal network to share knowledge, foster collaboration, enhance opportunities, and build capacity for emerging and established Indigenous researchers.
The First Nations Researchers Collective at Flinders University (established December 2021) emerged from an iterative co-design process with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers, the Office of Indigenous Strategy and Engagement, and Research Development and Support. The Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) is sponsoring the Collective.
All Flinders University researchers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds, including Honours and HDR students, are invited to be part of the Collective. The Collective is led by: Associate Professor Natalie Harkin (CHASS, Bedford Park), Associate Professor Karla Canuto (CMPH, Darwin), Research Fellow Lorna Murakami-Gold (CMPH, Alice Springs), and Lecturer and PhD Student Azra Coombe (CHASS, Bedford Park). Jen Beaudry (RDS) and Kerry Ludwig (OISE) provide administrative and strategic support.
The First Nations Researchers Collective is now underpinned by the Indigenous Research Strategy. The Collective contributes to Priority 1: Indigenous Research Excellence, Capacity and Leadership.
If you would like to participate in the Collective or get more information, please email:
Sturt Rd, Bedford Park
South Australia 5042
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