CDM Mentoring

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Last updated: Jan 10, 2024
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Mentoring and Careers Committee

The ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics Mentoring and Careers Committee coordinates mentoring and training opportunities for early and mid-career researchers in the Centre. It includes representatives the cover both the Centre nodes and different career stages of our members.

  • Darren Croton - Chair (Swinburne)

  • Michaela Froehlich - Deputy chair (ANU)

  • Irene Bolognino (Adelaide)

  • Maxim Goryachev (WA)

  • Chiara (Maria) Lisotti - Student (Sydney)

  • Jayden Newstead - Postdoc (Melbourne)

Mentorloop

The Centres of Excellence mentoring program on the Mentorloop platform as launched in June 2023.

The program is an opportunity to start a mentoring relationship with other researchers, professional staff and industry professionals. You have the option to connect to people from within the ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics or to someone from one of the other 11 Centres of Excellence participating in the program.

You can learn from mentors who can offer specific insight, advice and opportunities to help you progress in your career or for those of you with more experience, help others as a mentor.

This is a fantastic opportunity for us all to get involved in making our Centre a more well-networked place.

You can sign up anytime for the Mentoring Program here: Sign up - Mentorloop

Please answer the questions carefully. You will have the option of self-selecting or allowing the program to match you via their algorithm which will be run occasionally by the program organisers.

Why join the mentoring program?

This is a unique chance to connect with people across a total of twelve Australian Research Council Centres of Excellence, or just within our Centre of Excellence (you have the choice of either option)!

For mentees, it’s a chance to connect and learn from a more experienced mentor who can offer insight, advice, and opportunities to help you progress in your career. 

(FYI, in studies, it has been shown that employees with mentors are 5x more likely to get promoted!) 

For mentors, this is a great chance to give back while improving your leadership and management skills by providing advice and feedback to someone who can really use your help.

(FYI, managerial productivity increased by 88% when mentoring was involved, versus only 24% with training alone!)

Resources

The recording of the Mentorloop launch, which includes a demonstration of the Mentorloop platform and Q&A, is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iufl24iDw4&feature=youtu.be

We’re also working with Mentorloop to make sure you have everything you need to succeed in this mentoring journey. So, you’ll never have to feel alone, even when you’re having a bit of trouble. Get started with the Mentorloop Help Hub here. 

Speed Mentoring

The Centre has run two speed mentoring events in 2023, one virtual in October and one in person event at the CDM Annual Workshop in November.

Mentoring seminars

October 2023

The mentoring committee ran a joint CDM ASTRO 3D online session for mentors and mentees on “How to get the most out of your mentoring experience to accelerate your career”. This included many tips and tricks, Q&A and discussion.

View the slides:

Listen to the recording here

Other mentoring resources

http://www.manager-tools.com/map-universe/mentors