1. Engagement and evaluation Barnaby Mollett, London School of Economics Fiona Naismith and Jacqui Measures, University of Derby

2. Survey highlights: Engagement and evaluation
Ways of monitoring and evaluation mentoring programmes across HEIs in AGCAS membership include:

3. Engagement events
Bringing the mentor and mentee community together at your institution.
University of Derby case study
Fiona Naismith, University of Derby

4. Over to you…
Individually, identify an engagement challenge for your mentoring programme(s)
As a group, use lessons from the case study and your shared knowledge to think of ways to tackle each of these challenges
Note down each challenge and your potential solutions
Flipchart per table: feedback one key area of good practice at end.

5. Evaluation
Tracking against institutional metrics e.g. GO, LEO, Career Reg.
e.g. interview technique, networking follow-up
Multiple surveys tracking ‘progress’
Anecdotes, ‘binary’ surveys
Bennett’s Hierarchy –
We’re typically much better at evaluating the process rather than the outcomes, when it comes to mentoring programmes.
Easy to monitor, done by most HEIs