Webinar 6: Mentors and Sponsors (How Academic Women Can Help Each Other)

Join our webinar with a gender strategist and two female Australian Research Council Laureate Fellows, to reflect on being a positive mentor and sponsor of other women, including how to seek this sort of support and how to provide it.

Although women researchers can benefit from both mentoring and sponsorship, we are likely to be more familiar with the mentor/mentee relationship, in which mentors act as role model, and provide support and guidance to their mentees. In contrast, sponsorship involves the active and deliberative use of power (arising from one’s organisational position, professional standing, influence, connections, et cetera) to facilitate the careers of others. Not only do sponsors provide sponsees with advice, they also seek opportunities for the sponsee by connecting them with other senior leaders and publicly espousing the capabilities of their sponsees.

In the sixth webinar of the "Small Wins" series, we have invited Dr Jennifer de Vries,…