Exploring Career Values and Understanding Mentoring | Workshop for Early Career Researchers

The workshop Exploring Career Values and Understanding Mentoring helps set the foundation for early career researchers to explore career growth. This half-day session explores how values can guide career choices and lead to increased work satisfaction and performance, and provides strategies for seeking out mentors who can support you in your research career.

The workshop is facilitated by two of Macquarie University’s most knowledgeable on the subjects of career values and mentoring, PVC (Research Performance and Development) Professor Amanda Barnier and Professor Clare Monagle.

Through discussion and practical exercises you will:

• explore and identify your core career values,
• understand how values can help you in networking, interviews, and other professional situations,
• apply this understanding to reflect on your career aspirations and help you make informed and intentional career decisions,
• learn about mentoring and the role this plays in career development and career satisfaction, 
• consider approaches to finding mentors, and
• understand your role in the mentoring relationship is, and the benefits of mentoring to you and your mentor.

REGISTER TO ATTEND

Registrations close 5pm, 27 May 2026

About our Facilitators

Pro Vice Chancellor (Research Performance and Development) Professor Amanda Barnier is a Professor of Cognitive Science and an accomplished academic and researcher. Amanda has engaged and collaborated across her Department, Faculty, University, discipline and beyond in multiple roles at every stage of the research lifecycle: research training, ECR mentoring, grant writing and reviewing, research strategy, policy and integrity and research assessment exercises. In 2018, Amanda became Associate Dean Research for Macquarie's Faculty of Human Science, and from 2020 - 2021 held the role of Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Performance). In 2022, Amanda added research development to her portfolio to become Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Performance and Development). She brings to these roles over 20 years of sustained focus on almost every aspect of the research enterprise, and is passionate about supporting Australian research and researchers.

Professor Clare Monagle is a Professor in the School of Humanities at Macquarie University. She has published widely in the fields of medieval intellectual history and gender studies. She serves as the Faculty Leader of Early and Mid-Career Mentoring for the Faculty of Arts and leads a number of career-development and mentoring schemes in that capacity. Clare is deeply committed to promoting collegiality and diversity in the workplace and to the work of helping researchers to find their own path towards flourishing as scholars, teachers and leaders.

Early Career Researchers