2024/10/07 by Silvia Gherardi, Gherardi, Silvia, Michela Cozza +3
Health Professions · Psychology · #Care #Interprofessional Education and Collaboration #Mentoring and Academic Development #academic careers #community of practice #distributed mentoring
paper · doi:10.6092/issn.1971-8853/20470
openalex publication_date 2024/10/07 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/01
The conversation that we perform seeks to foreground mentoring as a collegial and distributed practice of reciprocity, care, and support happening in the interstices of academia. We argue that mentoring in academia can be a distributed process by promoting a learning community of doctoral students who participate in the research life and other department or research group activities. Promoting such learning communities also entails encouraging reciprocal kindness and care in any relationship, vertical or horizontal.