Abstract
Mentoring relationships in academia are traditionally constructed as hierarchies, where a supervisor mentors a trainee, or an advisory committee guides a trainee. We propose that all collaborations are mutual mentorship opportunities, where all people involved learn from each other while working towards a common goal. Moreover, researchers and trainees can be mentored or learn from non-academic mentors in different disciplines or sectors. Herein we outline a tutorial on how to break down a research project into stages, and the logistics and value of engaging mentors or collaborators from different sectors and disciplines at each stage, and how multidisciplinary or non-academic collaborators can provide mentoring to support trainee learning and academic success.
Author ORCID Identifier
Lora Giangregorio 0000-0002-3739-1805
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
Recommended Citation
Giangregorio, Lora; Tibert, Nicholas; Ponzano, Matteo; Emond, David; Thabane, Lehana; and Burns, Catherine
(2022)
"Working with multidisciplinary or non-academic collaborators as mentors,"
Health Behavior Research:
Vol. 5:
No.
3.
https://doi.org/10.4148/2572-1836.1149
