UHI Mentoring Scheme

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The UHI Mentoring Scheme offers mentoring opportunities for university colleagues and is designed to support professional development and skills enhancement.

The scheme is open to new, early career and more experienced colleagues as both mentees and mentors and is organised around four strands of mentoring:

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

Benefits of being a mentee

  • Empowerment and increased confidence
  • Increased motivation
  • Networking opportunities and skills
  • Skills and/or practice development/enhancement
  • Greater organisational awareness
  • Development of problem-solving skills
  • Increased job satisfaction and decreased workplace isolation
  • Guidance and peer support/knowledge exchange
  • Identifying and planning development opportunities
  • Routine of setting and working towards and achieving goals

Benefits of being a mentor

  • Development of interpersonal and communication skills
  • Development of mentoring and coaching techniques
  • Increased self-awareness and reflection
  • Sense of achievement in helping someone else grow and work towards their goals
  • Knowledge exchange, networking and practice development
  • Colleagues who engage as mentors may be able to use this experience when seeking recognition from Advance HE as Senior Fellow (SFHEA) through ALPINE

Interested UHI colleagues should visit the LTA SharePoint mentoring pages.