The Women in Research Mentoring Scheme (WRMS) has been\nsuccessfully running at UWE Bristol for 6 years. The scheme matches female researchers to\na mentor (male or female) in order to provide mentees with encouragement,\nsupport from experienced colleagues to fulfil their research aspirations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
WRMS is available to all women in academic and research\nroles, employed by UWE, who wish to develop their research careers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the longer term, this scheme helps to achieve\nthe strategic aim of increasing the number of women in senior\nresearch roles across UWE Bristol. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
From 2013 to February 2019, over 300 members of staff have\nparticipated in the scheme. Currently the scheme has a 94% satisfaction rate\nand 88% would recommend the scheme to others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr Laura Fogg-Rogers is the academic co-chair of the scheme, and commented: \u201cI have progressed from being a mentee in the WRMS scheme, to being a mentor, and finally now taking on the Co-Chair role. Meeting with such a supportive community of UWE women academics has really inspired me to further my own research career, and I am keen to support other women to do the same\u201d. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Feedback from mentees has been positive: <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAs a new researcher,\nit has been inspiring and supportive to be part of this scheme. Meeting other\nwomen in the same position has given me the impetus to prioritise my personal\nresearch profile\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI was paired up very\nwell and so was able to find out lots about local groups in an overlapping area\nof interest, but I also received support and advice\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Pam Fitzsimmons co-chair of WRMS commented: \u201cWe are really pleased with the results of\nthe scheme to date and look forward to helping more female researchers in the\nfuture\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Find out more about the scheme here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Women in Research Mentoring Scheme (WRMS) has been successfully running at UWE Bristol for 6 years. The scheme matches female researchers to a mentor (male or female) in order to provide mentees with encouragement, support from experienced colleagues to fulfil their research aspirations. WRMS is available to all women in academic and research roles, employed by … Continue reading “UWE Bristol Women in Research Mentoring Scheme”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":1390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[331,304,74,75,76,303,302],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-business-innovation","tag-mentee","tag-mentor","tag-uwe","tag-uwe-bristol","tag-uwe-research","tag-women-researchers-mentoring-scheme","tag-wrms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1391,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/1391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}