Who will mentor the mentors?

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Who will mentor the mentors?

What is this about?

This is about the suicide of Jason Altom, a Harvard graduate studen that, was widely reported in the media. With this tragic background, the case discusses the role of mentorship in research settings. A different monitoring system for the quality of graduate students' supervision is suggested, where anonymous evaluation is enabled..

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Academic institutionsAdministratorsSenior researchers

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Virtues & Values

• Availability
• Care

Good Practices & Misconduct

• Mentor-trainee relationship

Research Area

• PE 04 - Physical and Analytical Chemical Sciences