(Separate Fee Required) SSRPCB-2: Mentoring up – Workshop for Doctoral Students

For doctoral students, faculty mentors affect both the quality of learning and quality of life during that learning. This 2-hour workshop will focus on some of the strategies doctoral students can use to get their mentoring needs met during their doctoral program and beyond. We will focus on topics of aligning expectations, improving research self-efficacy, and planning for multiple mentorship to meet your varied needs. This workshop is relevant for both early doctoral students and more advanced doctoral students who need to plan for mentorship during their next career transition, and who are working toward being strong mentors themselves. This workshop is limited to 30 participants.

The 2-hour workshop is facilitated by Professor Stephanie Robert, PhD, MSW, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Robert is Professor and Director of the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work and is also affiliated with numerous UW interdisciplinary research institutes and centers, and with mentored research training programs. Dr. Robert has over twenty years of experience training doctoral and postdoctoral scholars across various social sciences and interdisciplinary sciences. She has won national and campus awards for her mentoring, including the inaugural Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education in Social Work (GADE) Mentoring Award in 2017. The Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) named their annual mentor award after her. She is a Master Trainer with the National Research Mentoring Network.