Welcome

The RES is pleased to welcome you to this “Consciously Inclusive Mentoring” programme. The materials have been designed to further your awareness and learning about the need for inclusive mentoring skills and mentoring in a coaching style. The programme has been designed in easily digestible mini-modules, to allow participants to complete this around other commitments. Modules 3, 4 and 5 contain the most content and learning activities.

Course content

Part 1 “Understanding Consciously Inclusive Mentoring”; self-guided  
Part 1 offers resources for you to engage in your own time. We estimate this to require 90 minutes of work in total but can be completed in stages. Each module builds on the one before.  

Download your workbook (from top right of this page) before working through these modules. All video content is located below.

• Mini-Module 1 – video (below): Introduction to diversity and inclusion challenges in economics.
• Mini-Module 2 – workbook: Self-reflection exercise on positive and negative experiences of being mentored, or mentoring.
• Mini-Module 3 – video (below): Bringing ourselves into mentoring – the role of preferences, identities and biases in mentoring.
• Mini-Module 4 – workbook: Understanding your own preferences, identity and biases.
• Mini-Module 5 – video (below): Consciously Inclusive Mentoring skills.
• Mini-Module 6  – workbook: Reflection and action planning.

Part 2 “Becoming a Consciously Inclusive Mentor”; virtual session
Part 2 will be a 2-hour virtual session via Zoom, facilitated by Ellie Highwood on 5 November 2025, 10:00am – 12:00 noon.   

In order to join this session, modules 2 and 3 from above must have been completed as a minimum.