Dual MentorshipDeveloping the next generation of academics

Dr Deena Ingham and Dr Nick Allsopp

Meaningfully supporting Postgraduate Students to become part of the HEA Fellowship

• 2014-15 Dual mentorship project within history at Loughborough• PGs from across the country applied by video to take part• Undergraduates and staff (academics and academic developers)

were involved in selecting 9 successful candidates from Loughborough, Nottingham, Swansea, Royal Holloway, Bristol, Leicester and De Montfort

• Focus to mentor UGs’ pre-dissertation preparation

Where’s the mentoring?Staff mentored PGs online as they prepared session plans and face-to-face in a single practical workshop

PGs peer mentored each other by sharing experiences and ideas

UGs mentored staff after the sessions through invaluable feedback and peer mentored during and after the workshops

PGs mentored UGs

How did it work

Techniques identified by undergraduates

Community of practice

Zone of Proximal

Development

Immersion

Critical Action Learning

Peer learning

Why did it work?

PG feedback…I will try much harder to facilitate, listen to, trust and accommodate student discussion.

I was really struck by how much deeper the students in my group were ready to go in the discussions.

I will endeavour to include periods free from assessed outcomes and associated content where genuinely productive 'learning conversations' can take place.

We were actively part of a community of practice

Enabled us to share a breadth of best practice

Underscored the importance of nurturing the scholar within students

Inspired us not to ‘hide behind the content’ of seminar teaching

Recognition of Teaching for Researchers (ROTOR)

ROTOR • Pathway through our HEA-accredited CPD scheme for PGRs

• Practice-base combined with mutual support group (peer mentoring)• 5 key discursive, collaborative workshops to develop practice led by

academic developers and academics (dual mentoring of practice)• Starts with an introduction to the UKPSF and AFHEA, concludes

with a writing retreat

Loughborough: Challenging thinking to develop a sustaining community of practice through active CPD

Dual Mentorship: d.ingham@lboro.ac.uk Rotor: N.J.Allsopp@lboro.ac.uk