GOS ICH Mentoring Focus Group

This group is about promoting mentorship across the UCL Faculty of Population Health Sciences

About us

We were established in January 2018 as part of EDI, to develop mentoring across UCL institutes within Faculty of Population Health Science.听

The following institutes are members of the FPHS cross-institute mentoring initiative:听Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, Institute of Clinical Trial and Methodology, Institute for Global听Health,听听Institute of Health Informatics, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Institute for Women's Health,听Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care,听Institute of Cardiovascular Science and Cancer Institute.听

AIMS and OBJECTIVES

Promote awareness of mentorship and its benefits听for mentors and mentees
Develop and provide training where needed听
Help to establish and maintain positive mentorship relationships

The scheme is open to all staff, inc. academic, research, teaching, ECR and professional services, and to PhD students from 2nd听year onwards

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Testimonials:

From a mentee in GOS ICH PPP Dept:
"The mentoring platform creates a great opportunity to connect to and learn from those outside of our projects and line managers/supervisors. I greatly appreciated the unique perspective and insights of my mentor and believe others will benefit from such relationships too."

From a former mentee and current mentor in GOS ICH GGM Dept:
"Going from a postdoc to an academic principal investigator could be a big choke. It is not always an easy transition. The mentoring from senior colleagues to junior PI appears to be very crucial in making this cobbly road smoother. I joined the ICH mentorship scheme in 2018 when I was just appointed the lecturer position in the one of the academic departments in ICH. Thanks to the ICH mentorship and my superb mentors, for walking with me through this path, for sharing with me their experience, resources, guidance and most importantly their precious time. It鈥檚 the unique mentoring that has endorsed me to have a smooth and successful transition, from a lecturer to an associate professor in 3 years. This successful experience has also encouraged me to become a mentor now at ICH to support other junior researchers in their career development."

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