A Conceptual Framework for Mentoring in Graduate Programs

This chapter advances a framework for understanding how early career researchers carry out their work in the context of a mentoring relationship. The chapter details how a mentor’s scholarship exists within a vast scholarly network of colleagues conducting work on similar or even identical topics. This network and the mentor’s own work heavily influence how the early career researcher constructs their own research program. As such, this chapter reveals how principles of storytelling intersect with the specific context of mentored scholarship, from the perspective of the early career researcher.