Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A one-page agreement signed by mentor and mentee specifying monthly hour-long video calls and an annual review against agreed goals
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
An unspoken expectation between two researchers who occasionally chat is not a mentoring agreement
Editorial commentary
Common in formal institutional and learned-society schemes; recommended in informal pairings to surface mismatched expectations early. Mentoring agreements are typically reviewed annually and can be ended by either party without prejudice.
References
- National Academies ‘The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM’ (2019)
- Vitae Researcher Development Framework
Also known as
Mentoring contract · Mentor-mentee agreement
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
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