Andrew and Jordan have made an impressive start to their summer internship. After only a week they have settled in really well and are already making a mark. So far they have held meetings with existing mentors on our scheme. These have yielded some intersting insights and helped to give them a good grasp of how the scheme works and the benefits of mentoring for early career researchers.
Jordan and Andrew are busy reviewing and evaluating a range of JISC resources, to establish what lessons we can learn that may help our project to achieve its objectives, and what tools we might be able to adopt during the project.
We have also managed to put in some intensive workshop time to analyse the data management requirements for our mentoring scheme and to draw up specifications for a database. This will be used to evaluate the proprietary solutions that may already be in the market. It will also be used to produce a model database 'as proof of concept' that we can make more effective use of ICT within our existing mentoring scheme.
Excellent start Jordan and Andrew - keep up the good work.
A University of St Andrews project to find ways to make more effective use of ICT to support mentoring schemes
Tuesday 24 July 2012
Monday 16 July 2012
Progress at last
So far our project to look at ways to make more effective use of ICT to support mentoring schemes has been way behind our project plan timeline. From today, however, things will be different!
I am please to welcome two key players onto the project team - Jordan Greenaway and Andrew Wilkinson. Jordan and Andrew joined CAPOD today, and will both be here for the summer on an 8-week internship.
During the internship they will be helping us to evaluate exising resources that may contribute to achieving our project goals. They will also be exploring a range of possible solutions designed to help us create more efficient and effective mentoring programmes through better data management and resources to support participants.
Now that Jordan and Andrew are on board, we have a revised timeline and aim to deliver our final conclusions by the middle of September.
So, welcome to Jordan and Andrew! Best of luck with the internship and we hope you enjoy your summer here with CAPOD.
I am please to welcome two key players onto the project team - Jordan Greenaway and Andrew Wilkinson. Jordan and Andrew joined CAPOD today, and will both be here for the summer on an 8-week internship.
During the internship they will be helping us to evaluate exising resources that may contribute to achieving our project goals. They will also be exploring a range of possible solutions designed to help us create more efficient and effective mentoring programmes through better data management and resources to support participants.
Now that Jordan and Andrew are on board, we have a revised timeline and aim to deliver our final conclusions by the middle of September.
So, welcome to Jordan and Andrew! Best of luck with the internship and we hope you enjoy your summer here with CAPOD.
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