Great interdisciplinary mentors come in all forms, and non-academic mentors in particular bring a wealth of career expertise and life advice. Here is how to forge and nurture those relationships regardless of your career path.

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Finding Non-Academic Mentors Regardless of Your Career Path - Ideas on Fire

Non-academic mentors bring a wealth of career expertise and life advice. Here's how to build and nurture those relationships regardless of your career path.

Ideas on Fire

@elm TY.

Also, recognise it's not a level playing field and therefore not all acceptances and rejections are equal.

Share what you learn from rejection to help others, especially less experienced and less advantaged, to improve their work. As you do so, talk about these experiences coming from rejection. Normalise rejection as @elm is here.

#AcademicWriting #AcademicMentoring

For those of you interested in #mentoring, I recently wrote an article with the fantastic Dr. Beronda Montgomery and Maria Dahlberg from the National Academies on what we hoped the future of #AcademicMentoring would look like https://issues.org/academic-mentorship-scientific-approach-montgomery-sancheznieto-dahlberg/
Academic Mentorship Needs a More Scientific Approach

Academic science must shift toward prioritizing training and mentoring as much as it does the conduct of research.

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