Geography and the Environment Mentoring Scheme
What is Mentoring?
Mentoring can be a transformative experience for both mentor and mentee, assisting you in developing in your role, professional life and career. Mentoring uses confidential one-to-one conversations to enhance skills, knowledge and performance. Mentors often have releavent knowledge or experience of the mentee's experience of work to share with them.
Mentors can be:
- A Sounding board
- A facilitator
- A role model
- An expert
- A source of feedback
- A confidant
- An advisor
- A coach
About the Geography and the Environment Mentoring Scheme (GEMS)
In September 2017 the department launched a new mentoring scheme, open to all staff and DPhil students. The Geography and the Environment Mentoring Scheme - known as 'GEMS' - is open to any member of staff or DPhil student.. As well as helping the individuals involved, mentoring can have wider benefits for the department. Staff who are more supported tend to be more motivated, more skilled and more successful.
The scheme aims are:
- to help staff and students achieve personal and professional growth
- to facilitate a greater sense of community and connection within SoGE
With mentors and mentees drawn from across the department, the School hopes to build an even more collegial and cohesive community of staff and students.
Due to the success of the scheme, in 2022 SoGE moved GEMS to MentorNet to better monitor and grow the program.
If you're interested in learning more about GEMS you can you can read our handbook and learn more on the SoGE Intranet.
If you have any questions about GEMS, or MentorNet or you would like to share feedback, thoughts or resources, please email equality@ouce.ox.ac.uk
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