Reverse mentoring to enhance research integrity climate
Abstract Mentors have the responsibility to guide their mentees through academic and scientific challenges that they might encounter during their educational and professional development. In embodying the role of mentors, senior academics are also expected to transmit knowledge and competencies on t...
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| description | Abstract Mentors have the responsibility to guide their mentees through academic and scientific challenges that they might encounter during their educational and professional development. In embodying the role of mentors, senior academics are also expected to transmit knowledge and competencies on the topic of research integrity to their junior colleagues. However, senior academics do not always succeed in transmitting responsible research practices and enhancing the research integrity climate. The implementation of the concept of reverse mentoring can be an option to overcome this issue. Different from traditional mentoring, the flow of information is reversed, going from juniors to seniors. Reverse mentoring, as a developmental partnership between mentees and mentors, has been already used successfully within the private sector and in medical education. In times in which most universities invest resources in organizing dedicated research integrity trainings for PhD candidates and junior researchers, it would be valuable to consider reverse mentoring for fostering responsible research practices and enhancing the research integrity climate. PhD candidates and junior researchers can join and fully contribute to the endeavor of enhancing the research integrity climate by co-creating, together with their senior colleagues a new-shared learning environment. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bd6509764d9d42b798fb774e4852da192022-12-22T02:34:11ZengBMCBMC Research Notes1756-05002022-06-011511410.1186/s13104-022-06098-wReverse mentoring to enhance research integrity climateDaniel Pizzolato0Kris Dierickx1Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, KU LeuvenDepartment of Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, KU LeuvenAbstract Mentors have the responsibility to guide their mentees through academic and scientific challenges that they might encounter during their educational and professional development. In embodying the role of mentors, senior academics are also expected to transmit knowledge and competencies on the topic of research integrity to their junior colleagues. However, senior academics do not always succeed in transmitting responsible research practices and enhancing the research integrity climate. The implementation of the concept of reverse mentoring can be an option to overcome this issue. Different from traditional mentoring, the flow of information is reversed, going from juniors to seniors. Reverse mentoring, as a developmental partnership between mentees and mentors, has been already used successfully within the private sector and in medical education. In times in which most universities invest resources in organizing dedicated research integrity trainings for PhD candidates and junior researchers, it would be valuable to consider reverse mentoring for fostering responsible research practices and enhancing the research integrity climate. PhD candidates and junior researchers can join and fully contribute to the endeavor of enhancing the research integrity climate by co-creating, together with their senior colleagues a new-shared learning environment.https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-022-06098-wReverse mentoringMentoringLearning environmentResearch integrityResearch integrity climate |
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| title | Reverse mentoring to enhance research integrity climate |
| title_full | Reverse mentoring to enhance research integrity climate |
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| title_short | Reverse mentoring to enhance research integrity climate |
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| topic | Reverse mentoring Mentoring Learning environment Research integrity Research integrity climate |
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