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    Home / Central Data Catalog / RESEARCH_AND_RELATED_CAPACITY_STRENGTHENING / DDI-KEN-APHRC-IDRCWS-2020-V01 / variable [F3]
RESEARCH_AND_RELATED_CAPACITY_STRENGTHENING

Examining Participation and Quality of Experiences of Women in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics: Postgraduate Training Programs and Careers in East Africa, IDRC Women in STEM

Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, 2021 - 2023
Research and Related Capacity Strengthening (RRCS)
Evelyne Gitau, PhD
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Mentorship_affect_progress_career_STEM (Mentorship_affect_progress_caree)

Data file: IDRC Women in STEM Online Survey Dataset

Overview

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Interval discrete

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Describe how has your being in a mentoring relationship affected your progress in your career in STEM?
Categories
Value Category
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A promotion indicator in the university .every 4yeaes
Additional roles for succession management and supervisory growth
Adds points to my basis of promotion
Adopt as his daughter
Affected Positively
Affected it positively
Assisted in career growth
B
Benefitted each other. The students were grown in their research and together with the supervisor published many papers leading to mentor promotion
Beyond my reach since it is dictated by funds
Career development
Career diversity
Collaboration
Contribution of credit points for promotion
Created an opportunity to support my experience
DEVELOP CONFIDENCE, PUBLIC SPEAKING AND BROADEN NETWORK.
Enabled demonstration of research leadership skills that helped my promotion
Enabled me to finish studies
Enhanced the process
From hearing from others and learn from them can help in career promotion
Good
Good prospects
Got promoted
Gotten promoted
Great impact
Growing
Grown my CV though still in the same position
Growth
Guid in my carreer
Have a lot of classes to teach
Have been easily promoted
He is very supportive
Heading research in my insitution
Help me in promotion
Helped to explore better research methodologies & applications
I experienced a supportive relationship from my mentor where he wants to see me grow
I got nothing from this point.
I got promoted to a senior level by desk promotion path due to good working relations with my seperiors
I hav no promotion yet but my knowledge in future will pave way for me
I have achieved promotion through mentoring others
I have acquired assignments from my bosses due to my progress in career
I have acquired considerable knowledge and skills that have enabled me perform better at work
I have been challenged by mentees. I have learnt from them
I have been promoted
I have got some skills in academic writing
I have managed to submit a manuscript with my mentees
I haven't gotten any promotions yet
I work for a forward looking science research funding and support organization that is making interventions in the African research ecosystem that aim to impact research awareness, uptake and innovation. My experience led to the creation of a s
Iam encouraged to push and finish despite the stress and pressure
Improved
Inspirational
Is a consideration
Is a requirement foe promotion
It contributes
It has accelerated my career
It has been important
It has delayed me to finish my studies
It has enhanced my understanding of concepts
It has helped me to improve my career
It has increased my promotion prospects
It has not affected me
It has not influenced in any way
It has not.
It is a learning experience. As I supervise mentees I am able to reflect on my own work as a PhD student and also improve it. I have the passion to develop and equip seasoned researchers. I have also benefited from input by experts in my field.
It is a requirement
It is indifferent
It is mandatory for a lecturer
It promote
It takes a long time
Je ko finz.e
Leaning more from my mentor gives me a moral of performance at work
Men are always getting better
Mentorship has led to progression in my career. I'm assigned better roles
More students have undertaken scientific research
My mentor encouraged me
My mentor has advised on strategies for career progression
My mentor of opposite gender has been very helpful with in regard to research and publications . she assisted me to complete my PhD and encourage me to take up Deanship position
My promotions have been very prompt because of the mentoring
N/A
NA
Neutral
Nik
No
No discernible effect.
No effect
No effect so far
No promotion as such
No promotion so far but I have gained alot of new skills.
None
Not affected
Not at all
Not much
Not promoted as of now
Not really
Not so much
Not sure
Not yet
Not yet promoted.
Nothing
Performance
Positive
Positive attitude
Positive career progress
Positive effect
Positive growth career wise
Positive impact
Positive progression
Positively
Positively affected
Positively increasing knowledge and connections
Positively promoted my career
Positivity affected
Postive
Principal officer
Progressed depending on teaching, research and service.
Progressive
Progressively
Promotion
Promotion within career
Publications
Read more about the discipline
Same
Sensitize
Several promotions
Supervision and mentorship are a criteria for my academic promotion
The mentoring relationship helpme to grow in my carrier
The mentorship process has enriched me.
There is a limitation in obtaining promotion
They have given me opportunities for promotion
This has contributed to my promotion
This has helped me to discover more about my career
Through the advises of the mentor
Tue
Very positively
We Co published with mntee
Well advised
With the mentoring relationship, I haved same publications
Working rate per year has increased in terms of outcome. We have more works done
Writing skills
YES
Yes
Yes I achieved promotion
Yes attained
Yes i have been promoted
Yes it has
Yes somehow
Yes through co-authorship
Yes, I have postively benefited from my mentor, Because he taught me hard work which I followed very well and actually made an administrator at the institution where I am currently.
Yes, I have been promoted.
Yes, I have now been appointed as an Adjunct Faculty in one of the Local University called The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST)
career development
encouraged to compete with men in career ladder
good
good progress
has not
mentors dont recommend for promotion if you will leave their department
motivated and inspired to continue
n/a
no
no effect on promotion
no promotion
none
not considered in the promotions track
not yet promoted
positive
positively
positively affected
positively contributed
progressive promotion
promotion policy is not tied to mentorship in my current institution
yes
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
Question pretext
Supervision and mentorship relationships
Question post text
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Interviewer instructions
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Description

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Participant describe how their being in a mentoring relationship affected their progress in their career in STEM
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