The IMS is instituting a mentorship program (International Mentoring Scheme) designed to help scholars at the start of their careers plan and implement a career path. This program will link up young scholars (postdoctoral scholars, early career researchers) with a more experienced/established scholar in their field. A mentoring relationship might include advice regarding the shaping of papers intended for presentation at an IMS meeting, turning a conference paper into a publishable article, writing a grant proposal, and so on. The program is open to early career researchers/scholars who are no longer enrolled in a degree program and have completed formal study within an institution.  

In an effort to fulfill the IMS’s goals as an international society, it is hoped that this program might link young scholars with mentors from either their own or another country. People wishing to be linked with a mentor are invited to apply to the Mentor Committee using the application form below. The Committee will then try to link you with the most appropriate person on our mentor list. The mentor and the mentee will then decide upon the most appropriate means of communication. This could be by email, Skype, and so on.

Participants in this program must be members of the IMS (click here to join or renew your membership). Neither the IMS, nor its governing bodies and members of these bodies, can be held liable for any inconvenience that may arise through, during, or after the accomplishment of the collaborative partnership between the mentor and the mentee as established via the International Mentoring Scheme.

IMS Mentoring Committee

Antonio Baldassarre (CH), Dorothea Baumann (CH), Jen-yen Chen (TW), Jane Morlet Hardie (AU, chair)

Links

“Calling Early Career Researchers”
Application form
List of research areas covered