This book explores the role and importance of mentoring as a form of collaborative learning in higher education. While mentoring has become increasingly popular, the definition itself can remain broad and potentially nebulous, and could be applied to a variety of endeavours. The chapters engage with case studies and empirical research from across the globe that respond to concerns raised within a range of cross-disciplinary fields, providing important clarity as to the role of mentoring within higher education. Offering clarity and precision as well as robust qualitative data, this book will be of interest and value to scholars of mentoring in higher education as well as those engaged in mentoring themselves.

Clare Woolhouse is Reader at the Faculty of Education at Edge Hill University, UK. Her research adopts a feminist, post-structuralist approach to exploring education for social justice, equality and inclusion, and she has published widely in these areas. Laura Nicholson is Senior Research Fellow at the Faculty of Education at Edge Hill University, UK. Her research focuses on the psychology of education, particularly facilitators of student engagement and motivation.

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