Overview of EdTA Mentoring & Eligibility

The typical mentoring journey

The EdTA Mentoring milestones including:

• showing interest - see below for more information; 
• welcome and induction;
• active mentoring;
• withdraw or pause;
• recognition. 

In this sub-section of pages for mentors we provide all downloadable files you will need, and Mentor-specific event booking links and past event recordings. 

EdTA mentors - documents

EdTA event booking links and past event recordings

Showing interest and eligibility 

If you are new to the University or have recently heard about the EdTA, you may have some questions and queries about the scheme in terms of what it is and how it works. Broadly, the EdTA is a mentoring scheme which support staff towards gaining fellowship from Advance HE, guided by their professional standards framework. Your role as a mentor is to meet and engage with a colleague who is writing their fellowship claim, and to provide advice and guidance. 

Eligibility: To be eligible to be a mentor with us, you need to be a University of Edinburgh staff member with existing fellowship at any category (Associate Fellow, Fellow, Senior Fellow, and/or Principal Fellow) and you need to be currently employed at UoE and planning to be here for a minimum of 2 years. 

Expressions of interest: If you are interested in being a mentor, please reach out to the EdTA team, at IAD.cpdframework@ed.ac.uk.

To learn more about EdTA mentoring, please browse our content and resources in these webpages. 

If you’d like to know more about the EdTA from a participants’ perspective, please take a look at our Prospective EdTA participants webpages, or Current EdTA participants pages.