The many mentoring types explained
Reverse mentoring, peer-to-peer, group sessions. Choose one or more to tackle a tough career transition.Andy Morris, employability mentoring manager at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, describ...
6 Okt 20219min
Mentoring, coaching, supervising: what’s the difference?
Good scientific mentors can provide both careers and psychosocial support, says Erin Dolan, who researches innovative approaches to science education at the University of Georgia in Athens. They provi...
30 Sep 202111min
How COVID-19 changed scientific mentoring
Many mentoring relationships were disrupted by the pandemic, particularly ones that relied on regular face-to-face contact.How did these established mentoring relationships survive the switch to virtu...
22 Sep 202111min
The mentoring messages that can get lost in translation
Science has become more international in the past few decades. This means that you might encounter a variety of people from different geographical and cultural backgrounds in your lab. So how does thi...
15 Sep 202111min
Why science needs strong mentors
How can science better support and reward academics who, alongside running labs, writing grants, authoring papers and teaching students, also devote precious hours of their working week to mentoring c...
8 Sep 202110min
Communities, COVID and credit: the state of science collaborations
This week, Nature has a special issue on collaborations, looking at the benefits to science and society that working together can bring. In this collaboration-themed episode (produced jointly with the...
18 Juni 202130min
Business of science: The transferable skills that straddle academia and industry
How does graduate school and academia prepare you for entrepreneurship and a commercial career?J. Nikol Jackson-Beckham, a social scientist who swapped a faculty position to launch a craft beer consul...
16 Juni 202118min
Business of science: The setbacks that can help your start-up succeed
The road to commercializing research is strewn with challenges, but how can science start-ups prepare for developments that are harder to predict, such as a global pandemic?Daniel Batten, an investor ...
9 Juni 202119min
