Mentoring a New Researcher: A Teacher's Learning

Mentorship is the formal or informal relationship that empowers the less experienced professional
with guidance from the more experienced professional. Mentorship can be used as a part of
andragogy. This autoethnography presents my lessons about academic research mentoring, as a
university teacher who supervised multiple theses in a master’s degree. I share some experiences
of how I evolved as a research supervisor in more than 5 years and insights for more effective
supervision of a new researcher.