Speakers
Description
TRIUMF, Canada’s Particle Accelerator Centre, employs or hosts an average of more than 200 postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and undergraduate students each year. To better support these early career researchers, a mentorship program was developed and piloted to specifically target this group. The program, which ran over a six-month period from May to October of 2024, featured two mentorship streams: a “buddy” stream, and an “academic” stream. The “buddy” stream aimed to have mentors provide guidance to their mentees focused on navigating the progression-based hurdles that accompany joining a new institution, while the “academic” stream mentors provided mentorship focused on career growth. Program evaluation included an early check-in survey and an end-of-program survey. In this talk, we will overview this new TRIUMF mentorship program, present results from the surveys, and discuss strategies for program enhancement and future success.
| Keyword-1 | mentorship |
|---|---|
| Keyword-2 | career progression |
| Keyword-3 | TRIUMF |
