Mentorship Programme
Guidance from someone who has done it before.
The Mentorship Programme pairs researchers with experienced reviewers throughout a live review process, helping them make confident methodological decisions from protocol development to final synthesis.
Why mentorship
The Mentorship Programme pairs researchers with experienced reviewers throughout a live review process, helping them make confident methodological decisions from protocol development to final synthesis. We call for mentees, mentors, and librarians together, typically once a year with applications opening in January, and match people once an intake closes.
A first systematic review is rarely stopped by a lack of effort. It stalls on the dozens of small methodological decisions where it isn't clear what “right” looks like. A mentor who has made those decisions before turns each one from a week of doubt into a short conversation.
Format
Online, one-to-one
Duration
Up to 6 months
For
Live reviews
What's included
- A mentor matched to your topic and method
- Regular one-to-one sessions across the review
- Review of your protocol, search, and screening decisions
- Guidance through synthesis and, where relevant, meta-analysis
- Support preparing the manuscript for submission
How it works
From application to submission.
- 01
Apply, and tell us which side you're on
Mentees apply with a question and where they've got to. Mentors and librarians apply with the expertise they can offer. We match on topic and method once an intake closes.
- 02
Meet your mentor
Regular one-to-one sessions across the review. Your mentor has done this before, so the choices that usually stall a review get made with confidence.
- 03
Work through the method
Protocol, search, screening, appraisal, synthesis, reviewed as you go rather than graded at the end. Meta-analysis where your data supports it.
- 04
Finish, and submit
Support preparing the manuscript, so the review doesn't stall at the last step, the one where most first reviews quietly die.
“Thank you to the organizers. I've attended some courses in systematic review but this one was exceptional and I learnt A LOT. Thank you so much.”
Halima, Nigeria · Workshop participant
Apply as a mentee, a mentor, or a librarian
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Tell us which of the three you are and a little about your work, and we'll match you when the next intake closes.