Mentoring: an Introduction to the University Mentoring Scheme

The University of the Highlands and Islands’ Mentoring Scheme offers mentoring across the academic partnership to harness experience and expertise regardless of the geographic location. The scheme is open to all colleagues working in further and higher education learning and teaching and research and complements a range of professional development initiatives coordinated through the Learning and Teaching Academy (LTA). The scheme is designed to support professional development and skills enhancement contextualised to the needs, interests and aspirations of individuals registered as mentees. It is open to new, early career and more experienced colleagues who are seeking mentoring support, and to colleagues who wish to become mentors. The scheme is organised around four distinct mentoring strands, comprising:

• Learning and Teaching Enhancement
• Professional Recognition
• Research
• Scholarship Development

The mentoring scheme aims to support and improve equality of opportunity with respect to personal and career development in research, scholarship development, learning and teaching, and professional recognition of practice.

Presenter

Alex Walker (she/her) MEd FRSA CMALT PFHEA

Head of Academic Practice Development | Ceannard Leasachadh Cleachdadh Acadaimigeach

Alex's main responsibilities include leadership of staff-facing professional development in learning, teaching and associated academic practices offered across the university. This includes working with colleagues in the Academic Practice Development team and across the university to design, implement and manage a arrange of professional recognition and development opportunities for UHI colleagues.  Alex also leads the UHI submissions to the Advance HE National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS) and Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellent (CATE), as well as coordinating ALPINE (Accredited Learning, Professional Development and Innovation in Education) and supporting applicants throughout the ALPINE application process.  Alex also has responsibility for leading, facilitating and coordinating events which promote and share good practice in educational research, and learning and teaching across the university. 

Alex also coordinators the University Mentoring Scheme which offers a range of mentoring opportunities for university colleagues through four distinct strands. Alex has mentored colleagues applying for Certified Membership of the Association for Learning Technology (CMALT), HEA Fellowships through ALPINE, through direct applications to Advance HE for Principal Fellowship HEA and internationally through a global funded research project exploring professional recognition and mentoring with colleagues at the Royal University of Bhutan (RUB).

Alex gained Principal Fellowship HEA (PFHEA) in 2021, and in 2022 completed a Masters in Tertiary and Higher Education, receiving a distinction for a dissertation researching mentoring for professional recognition. Alex is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), Certified Member of the Association for Learning Technology (CMALT) and in 2023 gained a level 5 ILM qualification in coaching and mentoring.

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