Mentoring
Our flagship Leadership Mentoring Programme offers maximum choice and flexibility to the participants in our Network and is based on insights into experience and development priorities we collect throughout the programme.
In this tailored mentoring programme, we hand-match participants with a sector leader for six months of focused development time. Our Leadership Mentors are experienced professionals from within and outside academia.
Our Pathways 2 Leadership Mentoring Programme runs from August 2026 and from December 2026.
Our Leadership Mentoring Programme
Why mentoring?
Mentoring can offer valuable learning opportunities at all stages of your career. A targeted mentoring conversation can help you clarify your thoughts, whether salient issues for you are:
- resolving snags during your transition to a new role or responsibility
- seeking your next career move
- picking up a new skillset
- finding support for navigating processes or relationships at work.
“Participating in the Leadership Mentoring Programme was an excellent investment into my career and professional development. I was matched with an industry-based mentor who aligned strongly with my personal and professional values. I had the opportunity to discuss the things that mattered to me.
As an industry-focused academic, this was an invaluable window into non-academic tech fields.”
– IZZY JAYASINGHE, FELLOW PARTICIPATING IN THE LEADERSHIP MENTORING PROGRAMME 2022 –
Mentoring Welcome Workshops
Registration for events will open when Pathways 2 starts in April. Please check back here when the programme has started.
Mentoring online toolkit
Working with a mentor can give you the opportunity to think, plan and navigate your role and career path.
You may already work with colleagues you wish to approach to mentor you or know of someone with specific expertise that you would love to be mentored by, working on a particular area. There are many individuals you will meet in your career that you may wish to ask to be your mentor for a period of time.
Our online toolkit ‘Choosing, recruiting and working with a mentor‘ explores how to approach and engage a potential mentor, and how to get the most out of the mentoring relationship as you work with your chosen mentor.
The Mentoring Team
Charlotte Bonner-Evans, Mentoring Consultant
With a background in counselling and higher education leadership and management, Charlotte is a specialist in mentoring programme development, being passionate about empowering others through mentoring and training, as a practicing ILM Mentor and Coach. Charlotte is the mentoring consultant for the UKRI Future Leaders Fellows Development Network and supports the development of mentoring programmes in HEI to improve individuals’ experiences. As a certified people and project manager, Charlotte aligns project management and people development to support culture change in HEI, being dedicated to fostering a supportive and growth-oriented environment to make a meaningful impact. Charlotte is the InFrame Project Manager, a Wellcome Trust-funded collaborative project at the Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, and St. Andrews. Recognising that a skilled collegial approach to leadership is critical for the development of supportive and equitable cultures, the project aims to create a new framework for inclusive collegial research leadership and expand the definition of research leadership.