Training and Mentorship
Health & Safety
- It is essential that you take all precautions to ensure your health and safety and that of all project team members and participants.
- Mandatory training is provided to all individuals who are hired by CRI to work on funded research projects and/or in our research centres.
- This includes procedures related to laboratory safety and/or potentially hazardous biological materials, if applicable.
Mentorship
A mentor may be a faculty researcher working with a student. At the same time, a more experienced student researcher can provide guidance to a fellow student.
Mentorship on a project takes many different forms and can include:
- Facilitating access to training and/or professional development opportunities
- Establishing a safe, equitable, and inclusive research environments, practices and norms (The EDI section of Module 3 provides more content on this topic.)
- Providing appropriate supervision during the research process
As a student researcher, you can expect that your supervisor (e.g. Lab Manager, Principal Investigator, industry partner) will:
- Establish clear expectations
- Make the steps of the research process explicit
- Incorporate routine checks for understanding
- Provide appropriate supervision while also fostering increasing independence
- Address gaps in learning and/or development needs
- Model professionalism and expect professional behaviour in return
- Help you develop both technical skills and soft skills (communication, adaptability, resilience, teamwork, etc.)
Resource: CRI Principle Investigator/Research Assistant Agreement
CRI encourages researchers to utilize this CRI Principal Investigator/Research Assistant Agreement template so that all project participants have a clear sense of roles and responsibilities.
