First Generation Doctorate - We are looking for mentors!
As a mentor in the “First Generation Doctorate” programme, you can pass on your experiences - and create a space for exchange, openness and mutual support.
Being the first person in a family to study at a university and continuing on the path to academia, brings special perspectives with it - and often specific challenges: Especially as a first-generation academic, the doctoral phase is associated with concerns about financial security, dealing with feelings of foreignness, questions about the informal rules of academia, networking, navigating the academic environment, and the feeling of discovering a lot on one's own.
You are the first in your family to find your way into academia? You do know what it feels like to find your way through the academic system without prior academic knowledge - with lots of questions, little orientation and your own detours?
Your perspective can not only provide orientation but also break down real barriers. The core of the programme is matching with a mentee outside your field - for an open, protected exchange on structural issues and obstacles to doing a doctorate.
Your reasons for becoming a mentor:
- Personal exchange with committed early career researchers,
- Reflection on your own academic biography,
- a contribution to more equal opportunities and diversity in science,
- the opportunity to network with other mentors in the programme,
- and all this with a time commitment of only 3 to 4 individually plannable meetings over a year!
Here you can find more information.
You would like to become a mentor? Then please send a short message to ggkand we will get back to you with further information.