Web Repository for Research on Mentoring: A Global Resource

SPRING 2015 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE

Emma Previato (Mathematics and Statistics, College of Arts & Sciences)

Mentoring activities are receiving increasing attention on the part of academia, federal agencies, industry and community activists: mentoring changes lives and creates careers. However, research on mentoring (on best practices, assessment, e.g.) is not yet an established discipline; this project aims to give it such status. Boston University will profit particularly through the creation of a community of practitioners, students, and faculty who will contribute interdisciplinary research, ranging from computer science to psychology, political science, management, social sciences as well as several Medical Campus departments.

The Hariri Institute is sponsoring the creation and sustenance of the interactive scholarly website http://globalmentorresource.org. Project Director Emma Previato (CAS, Department of Mathematics and Statistics) is assembling an advisory board of international experts, each of whom is responsible for soliciting research exchanges in their Specialized Area of Research on Mentoring (SARM). The domain offers research opportunities in and of itself, as it progressively becomes equipped with state-of-the-art technology that links stakeholders, allows searches, and maps the global community of those actively involved in mentoring, those who seek to implement mentoring programs, and the public.

This work is funded by a Hariri Research Award made in June 2015.