UZH Mentoring Award: Nomination form

The UZH Mentoring Award recognizes supervisors of PhD candidates at UZH for their outstanding achievements in the promotion of junior researchers. The award is presented on an annual basis.

Submission deadline: 15 December 2022

Documents to be submitted:

Fully completed nomination form with a short nomination text in the form of an abstract (1/2 A4 page).

More detailed introduction of the supervisor in open format (possible formats: text, voice and/or video).

Nominations are sent to UZH’s Graduate Campus: grants@grc.uzh.ch

Instructions for documents to be submitted:

Please submit only one nomination form and one detailed presentation in open format per nominated person.

In the case of nominations by several persons or groups, please include the details of all nominating persons in the same nomination form and formulate a joint abstract.

In principle, you are free to select and emphasize those aspects of the nominee's presentation that you feel are most valuable and crucial to your mentoring experience. The framework is deliberately left open in order not to anticipate the individuality of such experiences and their depictability.

The following considerations can be the basis for a nomination (the list of possible, but not necessary, considerations serves as a suggestion and is not exhaustive):

Does the supervisor provide a supportive and stimulating environment (situational and participative leadership, fostering a culture of constructive, open and forward-looking feedback, valuing and fulfilling the duty of care)?

Are junior researchers inspired and guided to achieve excellence in academia (essential methods, concepts, and cultures of their discipline, but also openness to failure, learning from mistakes, and creative approaches to problems)?

Does the supervisor convey the importance of academic integrity as well as good research practices based on Open Science principles?

Does mentoring include advising, positioning, and connecting junior researchers for future careers within and/or outside of academia?

The supervisor is committed to supporting junior researchers in ways that are open and transformative in addressing social exclusion and discrimination. (To ensure an inclusive and supportive work environment, the supervisor considers relevant experiences* that shape the academic and non-academic daily life of the junior researcher).

* Relevant experiences may include: racialization through socially ascribed stereotyping; the interaction of individual physical or mental impairments and disability through societal frameworks; gender as a socially ascribed gender characteristic and role based on biological sex; socioeconomic status (education, income, wealth) of the junior researcher or their social backgrounds.

Details of the person nominating
Name
Email
Subject area / department
Faculty
Starting date of the dissertation
Date of promotion
Current academic function
Additional remarks
Additional persons nominating …
Details of the person nominated
Name
Email
Subject area / department
Faculty
Current academic function
Role as a mentor

Evaluation of the mentoring relationship

Please assign points for the following criteria (4 points - particularly good mentoring performance, 1 point - less ideal mentoring performance, n/a - criterion cannot be evaluated).

1. Dissertation supervision

1	2	3	4	n/a

Is there a formal supervision agreement (no = 1; yes = 2	☐	☐

Did counseling sessions take place on a regular basis? (no = 1; yes = 2)	☐	☐

Assistance with research planning	☐	☐	☐	☐	☐

Assistance with dissertation completion	☐	☐	☐	☐	☐

Good accessability	☐	☐	☐	☐	☐

Willingness to engage in dialog and respectful interaction	☐	☐	☐	☐	☐

Ensuring good scientific practice throughout the entire doctoral program	☐	☐	☐	☐	☐

2. Research infrastructure

1	2	3	4	n/a

Assistance with development in research methods	☐	☐	☐	☐	☐

Assistance in finding funding	☐	☐	☐	☐	☐

Access to needed equipment	☐	☐	☐	☐	☐

3. Integration into the scientific community

1	2	3	4	n/a

Integration into national and international networks	☐	☐	☐	☐	☐

Support for professional publications	☐	☐	☐	☐	☐

Support for active conference attendance	☐	☐	☐	☐	☐

Promotion of research-related stays abroad	☐	☐	☐	☐	☐

4. Career counseling

1	2	3	4	n/a

Advice for entering the postdoc phase (funding opportunities/

applications, choice of research institution/working group, etc.)	☐	☐	☐	☐	☐

Support in exploring possible career paths

within and outside academia	☐	☐	☐	☐	☐

Promotion of key competencies independent of the subject	☐	☐	☐	☐	☐

Nomination text

Max. 1/2 A4 page