This presentation will highlight the benefits and challenges of mentoring relationships. It will provide important and helpful information if you are interested in starting a mentoring program or entering into a mentoring relationship. Advisor/tutor mentoring experiences will be highlighted whether created through participating in institutional or association wide mentoring opportunities. Information may be applied to programs for professionals as well as students. Tips for establishing successful mentoring opportunities will be shared to show the audience how easy it is to find a mentor. Join the session to hear how mentoring partnerships can be assigned and begin quickly or develop over many years, sometimes beginning very informally and growing to positive formal mentorships.
UKAT’s free monthly webinars, Tutoring Matters, are designed to support all those engaged with personal tutoring and advising, whether that be as a practitioner, leader or in a related support role. They will also act as key professional development for those undertaking tutoring and advising roles. Facilitated by various key professionals associated with UKAT and collaborative in nature, the webinars will cover important issues for academic advising.
If you would like to facilitate a webinar, please get in touch. We are also open to suggestions from members about topics they would like to see covered. To make a suggestion, or for any other queries regarding the webinars, please email webinar@ukat.uk.
You can book onto the webinars and find out further information by clicking on the webinar titles below (booking will go live approximately one month before the webinar is due to take place).
In Good Company: What Can Mentoring Do For You - Thursday 16 October 2025, 14:00
Gavin Farber, Jennifer VanDeWoestyne