Bioscience Mentors

Bioscience Mentors is a group for individuals working within the Higher Education sector who are interested in teaching and scholarship in the Biosciences. The group is run in partnership with the UK Centre for Bioscience. Bioscience Mentors aims to provide support and advice for like-minded colleagues, in career development and in gaining recognition and reward for excellence in learning and teaching.

The principal mechanism for this is e-mentoring scheme where the group members, irrespective of the stage they are at within their career, can offer mentoring and advice to other members in distinct areas of career development within learning and teaching. 

Would you be interested in becoming a mentor?

Please consider volunteering to act as a mentor (you can be both a mentor in one area and a mentee in another). Offering to act as a mentor should not be onerous, the more people that offer their services/expertise, the more the load can be shared. 

Bioscience Mentors is a closed Google group, and therefore the list of mentors and any other content of the site can only be seen by group members.

Bioscience Mentors is currently in its population phase, if you are interested in joining the group please contact either Dave Lewis at the University of Leeds (d.i.lewis@leeds.ac.uk) or Kay Yeoman at the University of East Anglia (k.yeoman@uea.ac.uk).

More about Bioscience Mentors

The Bioscience Mentors group was developed following project funding from the UK Centre for Bioscience. Led by Kay Yeoman the project "The development of an e-mentoring scheme for bioscience staff whose primary focus is teaching and scholarship" evaluated the provision of mentoring schemes and looked at promotion in higher education via a learning and teaching route. Find out more about the project.

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