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_id: '9336'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Mentorship is experience and/or knowledge‐based guidance. Mentors support,
    sponsor and advocate for mentees. Having one or more mentors when you seek advice
    can significantly influence and improve your research endeavours, well‐being and
    career development. Positive mentee–mentor relationships are vital for maintaining
    work–life balance and success in careers. Early‐career researchers (ECRs), in
    particular, can benefit from mentorship to navigate challenges in academic and
    nonacademic life and careers. Yet, strategies for selecting mentors and maintaining
    interactions with them are often underdiscussed within research environments.
    In this Words of Advice, we provide recommendations for ECRs to seek and manage
    mentorship interactions. Our article draws from our experiences as ECRs and published
    work, to provide suggestions for mentees to proactively promote beneficial mentorship
    interactions. The recommended practices highlight the importance of identifying
    mentorship needs, planning and selecting multiple and diverse mentors, setting
    goals, and maintaining constructive, and mutually beneficial working relationships
    with mentors.
acknowledgement: The authors thank Nicholas Asby of the University of Chicago for
  valuable comments on an earlier version of this work. A.P.S. was partially supported
  by the NARSAD Young Investigator Grant 27705. S.J.H was supported by the National
  Institutes of Health grant R35GM133732.
alternative_title:
- Words of Advice
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Sarvenaz
  full_name: Sarabipour, Sarvenaz
  last_name: Sarabipour
- first_name: Sarah J.
  full_name: Hainer, Sarah J.
  last_name: Hainer
- first_name: Feyza N
  full_name: Arslan, Feyza N
  id: 49DA7910-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Arslan
  orcid: 0000-0001-5809-9566
- first_name: Charlotte M.
  full_name: De Winde, Charlotte M.
  last_name: De Winde
- first_name: Emily
  full_name: Furlong, Emily
  last_name: Furlong
- first_name: Natalia
  full_name: Bielczyk, Natalia
  last_name: Bielczyk
- first_name: Nafisa M.
  full_name: Jadavji, Nafisa M.
  last_name: Jadavji
- first_name: Aparna P.
  full_name: Shah, Aparna P.
  last_name: Shah
- first_name: Sejal
  full_name: Davla, Sejal
  last_name: Davla
citation:
  ama: Sarabipour S, Hainer SJ, Arslan FN, et al. Building and sustaining mentor interactions
    as a mentee. <i>FEBS Journal</i>. 2021. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/febs.15823">10.1111/febs.15823</a>
  apa: Sarabipour, S., Hainer, S. J., Arslan, F. N., De Winde, C. M., Furlong, E.,
    Bielczyk, N., … Davla, S. (2021). Building and sustaining mentor interactions
    as a mentee. <i>FEBS Journal</i>. Wiley. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/febs.15823">https://doi.org/10.1111/febs.15823</a>
  chicago: Sarabipour, Sarvenaz, Sarah J. Hainer, Feyza N Arslan, Charlotte M. De
    Winde, Emily Furlong, Natalia Bielczyk, Nafisa M. Jadavji, Aparna P. Shah, and
    Sejal Davla. “Building and Sustaining Mentor Interactions as a Mentee.” <i>FEBS
    Journal</i>. Wiley, 2021. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/febs.15823">https://doi.org/10.1111/febs.15823</a>.
  ieee: S. Sarabipour <i>et al.</i>, “Building and sustaining mentor interactions
    as a mentee,” <i>FEBS Journal</i>. Wiley, 2021.
  ista: Sarabipour S, Hainer SJ, Arslan FN, De Winde CM, Furlong E, Bielczyk N, Jadavji
    NM, Shah AP, Davla S. 2021. Building and sustaining mentor interactions as a mentee.
    FEBS Journal.
  mla: Sarabipour, Sarvenaz, et al. “Building and Sustaining Mentor Interactions as
    a Mentee.” <i>FEBS Journal</i>, Wiley, 2021, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/febs.15823">10.1111/febs.15823</a>.
  short: S. Sarabipour, S.J. Hainer, F.N. Arslan, C.M. De Winde, E. Furlong, N. Bielczyk,
    N.M. Jadavji, A.P. Shah, S. Davla, FEBS Journal (2021).
date_created: 2021-04-18T22:01:43Z
date_published: 2021-04-05T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-08-08T13:12:55Z
day: '05'
department:
- _id: CaHe
doi: 10.1111/febs.15823
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  - '000636678800001'
  pmid:
  - '33818917'
isi: 1
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://doi.org/10.1111/febs.15823
month: '04'
oa: 1
oa_version: Published Version
pmid: 1
publication: FEBS Journal
publication_identifier:
  eissn:
  - 1742-4658
  issn:
  - 1742-464X
publication_status: published
publisher: Wiley
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
status: public
title: Building and sustaining mentor interactions as a mentee
type: journal_article
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year: '2021'
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