How to Participate

Guidelines for Peer-Mentoring:
The onus is on the mentor(s)-mentee(s) to outline the parameters of the peer-mentoring relationship. If any problems arise with this relationship, participants can get in touch with the PSi Mentorship Programme Officer (psi-peer-mentoring@psi-web.org) to discuss them. We are always happy to receive feedback on the scheme to ensure it is beneficial to the participants.

How to Participate as a Mentor and/or Mentee:
To sign up to be a mentor and/or mentee, please respond to the relevant questions below. These will enable the PSi Mentorship Programme Officer to create a database of mentors whom mentees (or a representative of a mentee group) can approach. Once the database is created, mentees can approach mentors at any time, CCing the PSi Mentorship Programme Officer (Katerina Paramana: psi-peer-mentoring@psi-web.org) in their first communication.

A) Mentors:

If you would like to serve as a mentor, please send brief responses to the questions below to the PSi Mentorship Programme Officer (psi-peer-mentoring@psi-web.org). The information you provide will be entered into the scheme’s database so that mentees can approach you. By providing this information, you consent to its inclusion in the programme’s database, which is visible to PSi members.

1. Mentor’s Name and Preferred Pronouns:
2. Your Career Stage (e.g., graduate student, teaching artist, professor etc.):
3. Institutional affiliation and/or Role (e.g., graduate student, teaching artist, professor, etc.):
4. Why do you want to serve as a mentor?
5. How will you benefit from this role?
6. Would you be willing to be considered for both one-to-one and group peer-mentoring arrangements?
7. Which career stage should your mentee(s) be? (junior, senior, or it does not matter?)
8. In which areas/topics would you like to mentor others? What are your skills and experience?
   – Areas/topics for mentoring:
   – Expertise (Research/Artistic) and Skills:
   – Experience with funding, impact, artistic practice, and research/pedagogical leadership:
   – Other:
9. How frequently and over what period would you like to serve in this role(s)? (e.g., four times/year for one year, as needed, negotiable/it depends on my schedule at the time of the mentor-mentee match, etc.)

B) Mentees:

1. If you would like to be a mentee, email your preferred mentor(s), CCing the PSi Mentorship Programme Officer (psi-peer-mentoring@psi-web.org), to express interest in entering a peer-mentoring relationship with them and provide them with brief responses to the questions below. A list of available mentors will be available here in early 2026.
2. Mentee’s Name and Preferred Pronouns:
3. Your Career Stage (e.g., graduate student, teaching artist, professor etc.):
4. Institutional affiliation and/or Role (e.g., graduate student, teaching artist, professor, etc.):
5. Your Research/Artistic/Academic Goal(s) for the PSi Peer-Mentoring Scheme (e.g., grant proposal submission, publication, artist event, networking, entering the job market help, conference presentation/organization, etc.):
6. How the PSi Peer-Mentoring Scheme can help you achieve this/these goal(s) (e.g., review of application documents, advice on funding for events and professionalization, feedback on book proposals, facilitation of networks and meeting other people in the field, general professional
   advice as needed, etc.):
7. Considering 4) and 5) above: would you benefit from one-to-one or group peer-mentoring?
8. Which career stage should your mentor(s) be? (junior, senior, or it does not matter?)
9. What expertise/experience/skills should your mentor(s) have?
10. How frequently and over what period do you think you need to meet with a mentor to achieve your goal(s)? (e.g., four times/year for one year, bimonthly for the duration of my doctoral program, as needed, negotiable–it depends on my schedule at the time of the mentor-mentee match, etc.)