Useful Mentoring Websites

www.nmn.org.uk

National Mentoring Networks Website

www.mentoringgroup.com

An American website providing tips for running mentoring schemes and access to mentoring materials.

www.coachingnetwork.org.uk

The Coaching and Mentoring Networks website provides contacts with mentoring and coaching people, products and services and is regularly updated with developments in mentoring and coaching.

www.mentoring.org

The national mentoring partnership's website provides advice on running different types of mentoring schemes and resources on how to set up a successful scheme.

www.mentornet.net

An e-mentoring network for women in engineering and science.

www.mentorsforum.co.uk

The Mentors Forum is an interactive site hosted by Business Link Hertfordshire, looking not only at individual mentoring schemes, but studying mentoring as a 'generic' subject

www.iee.org (http://www.iee.org/EduCareers/Mento/index.cfm)

The Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE) strongly supports mentoring as a primary tool for supporting and enhancing professional development. The IEE has a scheme in operation, which has recently been approved by the National Mentoring Network. The Scheme aims to link members seeking mentors with members who volunteer to mentor others. The scheme has been very successful since it's launch, and is of particular benefit to those seeking to become chartered engineers, although it is open to all members. Historically the industry has been very male dominated, but feedback from the scheme seems to show that mentoring is a very positive force in helping women to success in industry.

www.mentorset.org.uk

AWiSE is a UK association for women in the sciences, engineering and the technologies (SET), its objectives are to:

  • Promote SET for girls and women,
  • Act as a forum,
  • Provide a network for mutual support, Form a collective voice, and
  • Act as a centre of information and resource.

AWISE, in Collaboration with WES (Women's Engineering Society) with funding from the DTI (Promoting SET for Women Unit) are in the process of setting up an e- mentoring scheme for women in science and engineering. The rationale for this scheme is that:

  • Many women need help to make their way in science, engineering and technology.
  • Many employers are slow to meet their responsibilities as to childcare and flexible working.
  • Many of our systems are unfriendly to women, developed by men for men
  • Women in science can usefully help each other