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SRPP Mentoring
Introduction
The SRPP Section of GSA has decided to implement — on an experimental basis — a form of short-term mentoring (or short-term consulting) that we believe might be helpful for some ESPO members of our section. We urge you to try it and to keep track of your experience with this model, as we will want to evaluate how well the model works and we will be asking you for suggestions as to what we can do to improve the initiative in the future. If you have any comments positive or negative about this effort, it will be useful when it comes time to decide whether to continue it into the future. Please take a few minutes to send comment and suggestions for improvement to Kathryn Hyer, PhD, who will chair the committee responsible for evaluating this initiative.On this page you will find a listing of a number of SRPP fellows who have agreed to serve as short-term mentors in connection with this initiative. For each person listed you will see some contact information (an e-mail address) and in some cases a web address. You will also see a listing for each prospective mentor of those issues around which he or she is offering to provide mentoring assistance. Keep in mind that some of these people will have done work on other topics, but that does not mean they are offering to provide mentoring on those topics in connection with this initiative. You will find that these prospective mentors offer to consult on research topics and professional development topics. You may well find that a mentor who is doing research on topics that are very different than what you are interested in will have some very useful suggestions for you on one or more of the so called “professional development topics.”
If you find a person who you would like to consult with, send that person an e-mail in which you briefly state what issue you would like to discuss with the prospective mentor (consultant). He or she will then be expected to get back to you in a timely manner in an effort to set up a time for you to call to talk about the topic.
How To Use the List of Prospective Mentors
You will note that several of these prospective mentors are willing to offer advice on different slices of the same general topic. You will also note that some seem willing to discuss the topic very broadly, while others want to focus on some specific aspect of the topic. If you can find a person who seems to be very interested in the same narrow slice as you, that person may be a good person to start with. If you cannot find a person who lists a narrow slice that fits what you want to consult about, it may make sense to contact a mentor who has expressed a willingness to discuss the topic more broadly.When you contact the prospective mentor, specify whether or not you are asking for a 15 minute or a 30 minute consult. If you expect that your topic can be answered briefly, you may want to suggest a 15 minute consult and it is likely that it will be possible to schedule that consult sooner than a 30 minute consult. The assumption is that through an exchange of e-mail the two of you will be able to work out a time that works for both of you and then you will be expected to call your mentor (consultant) at that time.
Q: Can you contact the same mentor again on some other topic?
A: Yes.
Q: Can you contact the same mentor again on the same topic?
A: Yes.
Q: Can you expect to meet this person at the annual GSA meeting?
A: This will depend on whether the mentor will be at the next meeting, how long the mentor will be there, how busy the mentor will be, and the like. Most will look forward to at least a brief conversation. Many of these mentors will be able and willing to schedule an appointment to meet in person with you, but if they do so, this is over and beyond what they agreed to when they signed up to participate in this mentoring initiative.
Q: Is it appropriate to ask this person to review your dissertation proposal, chapters of your dissertation, a draft of an article you are working on, and the like?
A: That is not what this mentoring initiative is all about. What the mentors have agreed to is to have a 15 or a 30 minute conversation with ESPO members that contact them. It is possible that in some cases in which the mentee is doing research that is very close to and of very much interest to the mentor that more extensive interactions may evolve out of the contacts associated with this initiative, but most of these mentors will not have the time available that would be needed for these more time intensive forms of mentoring. Such mentoring is typically done by an advisor in your own graduate program.
Participating Mentors
The following GSA fellows from the SRPP Section have agreed to serve as mentors for ESPO members of the SRPP Section.You must be logged in as a member to view the names and contact information.
