University of Wisconsin–Madison

Research mentoring

CTLM can help you or your department with mentoring student research.

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3 conversation bubbles: "How do I get things off on the right foot with a new mentee?" and "How do I help students become independent researchers?" and "How do I help my mentee get 'unstuck'?"

Consulting

  • Provide one-on-one support to mentors working through challenges in mentoring student research and creative work (graduate and undergraduate) in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
  • Collaboratively develop short-, medium-, and long-term plans for supporting research mentoring in your department or school/college/division.

Customized workshops

  • Develop one or multiple co-facilitated workshops based on the Entering Mentoring curriculum, in partnership with faculty/academic staff in host unit.
  • Create customized workshops that help your campus unit to address ongoing or emergent topics in mentoring student research, grounded in the scholarship on graduate and undergraduate research training – themes include aligning mentor-mentee expectations, promoting mentee independence and research self-efficacy, mentoring research writing, and more.
  • Assist in identifying and onboarding co-facilitators from your department and maintaining a sustainable facilitator pool.

Coordination

  • Serve as a clearinghouse for information regarding best practices in research mentoring.
  • Offer referrals to other campus units that support research mentoring (e.g., WISCIENCE for STEM-focused support, the Delta Program for graduate student/postdoc-facing support, etc.).
  • Liaise between school/college/divisional leaders to strategize regarding demand and opportunities for research mentoring programming.

Featured resource

Research Mentor Pre-Semester Check-In Template

Regular, planned check-ins can support a successful mentor-mentee relationship and keep your mentee on track. Use this template to prepare for a pre-semester check-in.

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