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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Mentorship is experience and/or knowledge‐based guidance. Mentors support,
sponsor and advocate for mentees. Having one or more mentors when you seek advice
can significantly influence and improve your research endeavours, well‐being and
career development. Positive mentee–mentor relationships are vital for maintaining
work–life balance and success in careers. Early‐career researchers (ECRs), in
particular, can benefit from mentorship to navigate challenges in academic and
nonacademic life and careers. Yet, strategies for selecting mentors and maintaining
interactions with them are often underdiscussed within research environments.
In this Words of Advice, we provide recommendations for ECRs to seek and manage
mentorship interactions. Our article draws from our experiences as ECRs and published
work, to provide suggestions for mentees to proactively promote beneficial mentorship
interactions. The recommended practices highlight the importance of identifying
mentorship needs, planning and selecting multiple and diverse mentors, setting
goals, and maintaining constructive, and mutually beneficial working relationships
with mentors.
acknowledgement: The authors thank Nicholas Asby of the University of Chicago for
valuable comments on an earlier version of this work. A.P.S. was partially supported
by the NARSAD Young Investigator Grant 27705. S.J.H was supported by the National
Institutes of Health grant R35GM133732.
alternative_title:
- Words of Advice
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article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Sarvenaz
full_name: Sarabipour, Sarvenaz
last_name: Sarabipour
- first_name: Sarah J.
full_name: Hainer, Sarah J.
last_name: Hainer
- first_name: Feyza N
full_name: Arslan, Feyza N
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last_name: Arslan
orcid: 0000-0001-5809-9566
- first_name: Charlotte M.
full_name: De Winde, Charlotte M.
last_name: De Winde
- first_name: Emily
full_name: Furlong, Emily
last_name: Furlong
- first_name: Natalia
full_name: Bielczyk, Natalia
last_name: Bielczyk
- first_name: Nafisa M.
full_name: Jadavji, Nafisa M.
last_name: Jadavji
- first_name: Aparna P.
full_name: Shah, Aparna P.
last_name: Shah
- first_name: Sejal
full_name: Davla, Sejal
last_name: Davla
citation:
ama: Sarabipour S, Hainer SJ, Arslan FN, et al. Building and sustaining mentor interactions
as a mentee. FEBS Journal. 2021. doi:10.1111/febs.15823
apa: Sarabipour, S., Hainer, S. J., Arslan, F. N., De Winde, C. M., Furlong, E.,
Bielczyk, N., … Davla, S. (2021). Building and sustaining mentor interactions
as a mentee. FEBS Journal. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1111/febs.15823
chicago: Sarabipour, Sarvenaz, Sarah J. Hainer, Feyza N Arslan, Charlotte M. De
Winde, Emily Furlong, Natalia Bielczyk, Nafisa M. Jadavji, Aparna P. Shah, and
Sejal Davla. “Building and Sustaining Mentor Interactions as a Mentee.” FEBS
Journal. Wiley, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1111/febs.15823.
ieee: S. Sarabipour et al., “Building and sustaining mentor interactions
as a mentee,” FEBS Journal. Wiley, 2021.
ista: Sarabipour S, Hainer SJ, Arslan FN, De Winde CM, Furlong E, Bielczyk N, Jadavji
NM, Shah AP, Davla S. 2021. Building and sustaining mentor interactions as a mentee.
FEBS Journal.
mla: Sarabipour, Sarvenaz, et al. “Building and Sustaining Mentor Interactions as
a Mentee.” FEBS Journal, Wiley, 2021, doi:10.1111/febs.15823.
short: S. Sarabipour, S.J. Hainer, F.N. Arslan, C.M. De Winde, E. Furlong, N. Bielczyk,
N.M. Jadavji, A.P. Shah, S. Davla, FEBS Journal (2021).
date_created: 2021-04-18T22:01:43Z
date_published: 2021-04-05T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-08-08T13:12:55Z
day: '05'
department:
- _id: CaHe
doi: 10.1111/febs.15823
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- '000636678800001'
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- '33818917'
isi: 1
language:
- iso: eng
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url: https://doi.org/10.1111/febs.15823
month: '04'
oa: 1
oa_version: Published Version
pmid: 1
publication: FEBS Journal
publication_identifier:
eissn:
- 1742-4658
issn:
- 1742-464X
publication_status: published
publisher: Wiley
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
status: public
title: Building and sustaining mentor interactions as a mentee
type: journal_article
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year: '2021'
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