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Episode 1: Supervisor-Supervisee Relationships with Dr. Melanie-Anne Atkins
Brain Matter Chatter (BMC)
English - June 13, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 42.1 MBSelf-Improvement Education Science mental health academia brain chat graduate student grad student anxiety academic neuroscience neuro Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 0: Why Now? Why Us? Why This?
Next Episode: Episode 2: Zoom Fatigue with Michaela Kent
Mentor-mentee relationships are dynamic & often complex, especially when discussing mental health. In this episode, Dr. Melanie Anne Atkins, a mental health advocate and researcher & Acting Associate Director at Graduate Programs at the Center for Teaching & Learning at Western University, takes us through ways to establish expectations and a positive relationship on both ends. Additionally we chat about how to talk about mental health with a mentor/supervisor. Episode 1 highlights the rate of graduate student success and how supervisor-supervisee relationships are a crucial source of support for graduate students.