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. 

Chapter 1. Introduction; Clare Woolhouse and Laura Nicolson.- SECTION I. Mentoring with Undergraduate Students in Higher Education Subsection: Peer Mentoring Between Students.- Chapter 2. De-Mystifying the Concept of Peer Mentoring in Higher Education: Establishing Models for Learning; Emma Ball and Claire Hennessy.- Chapter 3. Student Academic Mentoring: Collaborative Peer Learning and Support for Undergraduates; Gillian Pye, Sue Williams and Linda Dunne.- Chapter 4. Credibility: What Role Does it Play in a Peer Mentoring Relationship?; Janet W. Colvin.- SECTION II. The Mentoring of Higher Education Students by Tutors.- Chapter 5. Developing Positive Personal Tutor Relationships; Annabel Yale.- Chapter 6. Mentoring Students on Professional Courses in Higher Education in the Workplace: New Opportunities and Challenges; Gillian Peiser.- Chapter 7. Peer Mentoring Relationships for Professional Placements; Claire Ball-Smith.- Chapter 8. A Review of Mentorship in Spanish Higher Education: The Case of Writing Tutorials; Sara Rodriguez-Cuadrado and Juan Antonio Núñez Cortés.- Chapter 9. Re-Thinking the Mentoring Relationship: Gabriel Marcel, Availability and Unavailability; Amanda Fulford.- SECTION III. Academic Mentoring in Higher Education Contexts Subsection: Professional Peer and Cross-Cultural Mentoring.- Chapter 10. The Shoes Should No Longer Fit: Creating a Space for Caring and Challenge Through the Dissertation Process; Whitney M. Stewart, Terra Greenwell, Sandra L. Hogue, Carla Kent, Dawn Roseberry, Amanda Santos-Colon, and Mary Brydon-Miller.- Chapter 11.Relational Mentoring and the Centrality of Self-Care;  Christiane Boehr, Stefani Carlson, Alice Deters, Victoria L. Dickman-Burnett, Allison JoAnn Lester, Brittany Arthur Mellon, Miriam Raider-Roth, Pamela Theurer, and Susan Tyler.- Chapter 12. East Meets West: Exploring the Challenges of Cross-Cultural Mentoring in Pedagogical Development; David Allan, Pham Hoai Anh, and Le Nu Cam Le.- SECTION IV. Mentoring for Social Justice.- Chapter 13. Cinderella Academics: Teacher Educators in the Academy; Vini Lander and Laura Nicholson.- Chapter 14. Practices of Freedom? Seeking the Social Justice Aims of Peer Mentoring Within a Professional Development Programme for Teaching Assistants; Clare Woolhouse and Laura Nicholson.- Chapter 15. Mentoring as a Model of Resistance in Times of Austerity; Vicky Duckworth and Bronwen Maxwell.- Chapter 16. Chapter 16: Conclusion; Clare Woolhouse and Laura Nicholson.