British Association for Pyschopharmacology. To advance education and research in the science of psychopharmacology
Mentoring scheme convener – Dr Paula Moran
Co-convener, additional administration and enquiries (BAP office) – Dr Katie Hewitt
The BAP are pleased to announce a pilot mentoring scheme. The scheme will be aimed at preclinical training members of the BAP in the first instance, and seeks to support early career Psychopharmacologists in the discipline. In it's first year this will be run as a pilot scheme with a limited number of 12 mentor-mentee pairs. We hope to extend the scheme in future to all training members.
In common with many scientific disciplines, we are losing a significant number of young scientists particularly at early career stage. Effective and directly relevant mentoring schemes are one way of trying to address this. Most institutions provide formal mentors but this is often not tailored particularly to Psychopharmacology and many post-docs feel that they do not benefit from schemes that are not tailored to their research interests. Most learned society schemes in existence are aimed specifically at female scientists, the BAP scheme will be open to all. The training membership of BAP have responded enthusiastically to the idea and we have co-opted members to help in its design. We hope that the support from BAP members, as mentors will provide crucial guidance and support to the young guardians of the future of Psychopharmacology.
BAP training members registering interest in participating in the mentoring scheme are invited to attend an introductory meeting detailed below. This session will introduce the scheme and inform mentees and mentors of the next step in the process.
Preregistered mentors and mentees only
Sunday July 26th 2009
5-6pm, Keble College, Oxford
The mentoring scheme partnership will comprise of a pairing of training members with an experienced BAP mentor working specifically in their field of expertise. They will be able to meet at a dedicated session during the BAP summer meeting and at other times outside the BAP meeting by arrangement. The success of the scheme will rely upon the goodwill of experienced BAP scientists. Mentoring throughout the scheme will usually take place as either face to face meeting and/or email/telephone call exchange and can be formal or informal. We have collaborated with the UK Resource Centre for Women in Science Engineering and Technology (UKRC), as they have wide experience in setting up and running this type of mentoring scheme, their trained staff will be on hand to provide mentor and mentees with advice and support as the relationship develops.
The application deadline is 8th July 2009. Successful applicants for a mentee place will be informed once the application is received and further information will be sent out.
All enquiries regarding mentoring scheme should be directed to Katie@bap.org.uk.
(Dr Paula Moran, Prof Gavin Reynolds and Dr Katie Hewitt)
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