(with apologies for cross-posting)

Dear all,

A reminder that the Feminist and Women's Studies Association, UK and
Ireland's (FWSA) new Mentoring Scheme is closing *this Friday, 20 September*
.

The FWSA Mentoring Scheme aims to foster a strong feminist community that
encourages supportive and collegial relationships between members of the
Association. The scheme is for FWSA members who have passed their PhDs and
are early- or mid-career scholars. They will be paired with a more
experienced mentor who is able to pass on advice or share experiences. With
academic work becoming ever more precarious and competitive, the aim of the
mentoring scheme is to counter this environment with a collective feminist
politics and a supportive environment for feminist colleagues. Having
received supervisory support during their PhD work, some researchers find
guidance at this point of the academic career trajectory to be lacking. In
particular, the FWSA aims to support those without institutional support or
other sources of mentorship.

Mentees will be introduced to their mentor by email, and we envisage that
this will be an informal relationship to provide good counsel. It is a
supportive, one-to-one relationship, within a confidential and supportive
environment, and based on mutual trust. The mentoring relationship will
last for 12 months over the course of the academic year
(October-September). We suggest that once mentors and mentees are matched
by the FWSA that they mutually agree the expectations of the coming year.
Matters for discussion may include job applications, publications and
research, career anxieties, academic politics, feminist mobilising in
academia, teaching tips, and so on. The amount of contact between the
mentor and mentee is flexible, although we would suggest a minimum of 4
meetings (in person, by email, Skype or telephone) in the 12-month period.
Mentors and mentees may wish to stay in touch after the mentoring period
has ended, but this is not a formal agreement.

The mentors for 2019/20 are:

   - Dr Karina Aveyard (Senior Lecturer in Media, Arts and Humanities,
   University of East Anglia)
   - Dr Anna Bull (Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Portsmouth
   and a founding member of The 1752 Group)
   - Prof Bridget Byrne (School of Social Sciences, University of
   Manchester)
   - Dr Maryam Ghorbankarimi (Lecturer in Film Practice, Lancaster
   University)
   - Dr Jo Littler (Department of Sociology and Director of the Gender and
   Sexualities Research Centre at City, University of London)
   - Dr Karen Lumsden (School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of
   Nottingham)
   - Dr Geetha Marcus (Senior Lecturer at Queen Margaret University in the
   Division of Psychology, Sociology and Education)
   - Dr Catherine Rottenberg (Associate Professor in the Department of
   American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham)
   - Dr Karen Throsby (School of Sociology and Social Policy at the
   University of Leeds)
   - Prof Kate Sang (Professor of Gender and Employment Studies at
   Edinburgh Business School, Heriot Watt University)
   - Prof Heather Savigny (Professor of Gender, Media and Politics, De
   Montfort University, Leicester)


Further details about the the mentor/mentee roles can be found on our
website - http://fwsablog.org.uk/prizes-and-grants/fwsa-mentoring-scheme/


*How to apply:*

If you are interested in applying to the scheme, please send your CV, a
500-word max. statement of need for mentoring, and a 500-word max.
statement on how you envisage you would make use of the mentoring
relationship (i.e. for research advice, teaching advice, career progression
advice, etc.) to [log in to unmask]

We will prioritise applicants based on need, so please supply a clear case
for why you are in need of mentorship in your application. Where possible,
we will match mentors and mentees based on research interests.

*All mentees need to be members of FWSA on applying for the scheme*.
Mentees must be working or have studied in a UK or Irish Institution. PhD
students will be considered in exceptional circumstances. If you are a PhD
student and wish to apply, please make this clear in your application.

*Deadline: Friday 20 September 2019*
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Sabrina Moro
PhD candidate, Media and Cultural Studies
*Nottingham Trent University*
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