Performing Mentorship in Collaborative Research Teams

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https://doi.org/10.11575/pplt.v5i.73270

Abstract

This paper shares preliminary findings from a reflective inquiry into the nature of collaboration and mentorship through digital spaces within a national SSHRC-funded research team the authors form a part of. Our research collaboration has been marked by particularly close friendships, co-creation and mutual learning that have helped to deepen our research and provide a meaningful and enriching experience for everyone involved. Proposing that mentorship and collaboration can be viewed as a performance, which can be enacted in diverse ways depending on the context and intention, we share the digital and arts-based methods our team uses to both foster mentorship relationships and routinely reflect on how we are performing and experiencing mentorship within our team in order to identify and respond to our emerging needs, challenges and opportunities to enrich our collaboration.

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Nicole Armos, Simon Fraser University

Nicole holds and MA in Arts Education and is the Senior Analyst at Simon Fraser University's Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue.  She is a Collaborator on a SSHRC funded research project entitled Performing Mentorship: Investigating Mentorship in 4 Arts for Social Change Creative Spaces and Contexts which aims to investigate how practices of mentorship can offer art activists, facilitators, and educators’ co-creative opportunities and professional development within the communities in which they work, and the broader cultural arena. She is co-leading the field study exploring how mentorship may be performed in digital spaces among research team members.

 

Callista Chasse, University of Lethbridge

Callista Chasse is a social worker and educator from Lethbridge, Ab. She holds Bachelor and Master of Social work degrees from the University of Calgary and currently teaches full time in the Faculty of Health Sciences- Addictions Counselling Program at the University of Lethbridge.  She is also a Collaborator on a SSHRC funded research project entitled Performing Mentorship: Investigating Mentorship in 4 Arts for Social Change Creative Spaces and Contexts which aims to investigate how practices of mentorship can offer art activists, facilitators, and educators’ co-creative opportunities and professional development within the communities in which they work, and the broader cultural arena. She is co-leading the field study exploring how mentorship may be performed in digital spaces among research team members.

 

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Published

2022-02-22

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Vol. 5 (2022): Mentorship in Higher Education

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Collaborative Mentorship

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