YCEDE Circle Mentoring

Circle Mentoring is an online, group PGR mentoring opportunity where you’ll engage with 2-3 mentors. In this session, our mentors will discuss their experiences of working in the industries beyond academia.

Our mentors will share their career journeys, providing insights into their roles and answering your questions. The session includes group discussion and breakout rooms where you can engage with each mentor separately.

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How it works

In order to align with YCEDE eligibility, this session is open to UK/home domiciled PGRs from racially-marginalised backgrounds at YCEDE partner universities (Bradford, Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam, York, and Leeds).
Please see the attached information sheet for further information on the circle mentoring session.
Once you are happy, please register here ahead of the session registeration deadline.
Our team will be in touch shortly after this with the outcome of registration.
If you have any additional questions about what the session will be like or your role within it, please get in touch.

*For information on what ethnicities are considered minoritized please visit: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/collection/c21051/a/ethnic

Our Mentors

See links to our mentor profile pages below

Academics at research-intensive universities
Passionate about research
Experience of supervising postgraduate students
Committed to improving diversity of PGR study in Higher Education

Why take part?

Circle Mentoring offers a chance to ask mentors about their career paths and gain advice on your career and professional development.
You will have the opportunity to listen and learn from the mentors experience, and this may help you in making an informed choice about your next steps in your PGR journey.

Upcoming Group Circle Mentoring Session

This session is an excellent opportunity for anyone interested in careers within life sciences.

The postponed February session has been rescheduled to Monday 7th April 10:00-12:00 (online).

The mentors:

Dr Daniel Okeowo is a Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice at the School of Pharmacy, Newcastle University. He earned his Master’s degree in Pharmacy from the University of Durham and Newcastle University in 2018, completing a dissertation titled "Clinical Practice Guidelines for Older Patients with Multi-morbidities – What Are the Implications for Deprescribing." Following his pre-registration year at University College London Hospitals, Daniel became a registered pharmacist in August 2019. He went on to pursue a PhD at the University of Leeds, funded by the NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety and Translation Research Centre, focusing on "How to Safely and Routinely Implement Deprescribing in Primary Care." Following this, Daniel took up a lectureship role at Newcastle University’s School of Pharmacy
Donald Palmer has a BSc in Medical Sciences from Bradford University, MSc in Immunology at KCL and a PhD from MRC, Clinical Sciences Centre. Donald worked in laboratories at Cancer Research and Imperial College London; in the latter he successfully obtained an MRC Career Development Award. He joined the Royal Veterinary College, University of London in 2002 and is currently an Associate Professor of Immunology.

Please see the attached information sheet for further information on the circle mentoring session. If you have any additional questions about what the session will be like or your role within it, please get in touch.

Once you are happy, please register here and ahead of the deadline of 10am on Monday 31st March 2025.

Our team will be in touch shortly after this with the outcome of registration.

For more information, contact our mentoring team on mentoring@ycede.ac.uk