Mentoring as a Distributed Practice of Care: A Conversation

Silvia Gherardi; Michela Cozza; Laura Lucia Parolin

doi:10.6092/issn.1971-8853/20470

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Silvia Gherardi Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7026-2418

Silvia Gherardi recently retired from the University of Trento (Italy). Her research interests include feminist new materialism, entrepreneurship, practice-based studies, and post-qualitative methodologies in organization studies. Her latest books include The Posthumanist Epistemology of Practice Theory (Palgrave, 2023, with M. Cozza) and Organization Studies and Posthumanism (Routledge, 2024, with F.-X. de Vaujany & P. Silva).
Michela Cozza Department of Organization and Management, Mälardalen University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6998-5034

Michela Cozza is an Associate Professor at the Department of Organization and Management at Mälardalen University (Sweden). Her research interests focus on the relationships between social and material aspects of organizational practices, leveraging a practice-based approach informed by science and technology studies. Her latest books include Ethics of Engagement in Research Practices. Response-ability in Organization and Management (Routledge, 2025, Eds., with A. Carreri & B. Poggio), The Posthumanist Epistemology of Practice Theory (Palgrave, 2023, with S. Gherardi), and Key Concepts in Science and Technology Studies(Studentlitteratur, 2021).
Laura Lucia Parolin Department of Culture and Language, University of Southern Denmark https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7385-9797

Laura Lucia Parolin is an Associate Professor of Organizational Communication at the Department of Culture and Language, University of Southern Denmark. She is a practice-based scholar whose research interests lie in the entanglement of discoursive-sociomaterial practices with affects, focusing on the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of work practices and organizations. She is interested in sensitive knowledge, human and nonhuman contributions to aesthetic practices, queer subjectivities, and arts as research methods.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/20470

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Care, academic careers, distributed mentoring, community of practice

Abstract

The conversation that we perform seeks to foreground mentoring as a collegial and distributed practice of reciprocity, care, and support happening in the interstices of academia. We argue that mentoring in academia can be a distributed process by promoting a learning community of doctoral students who participate in the research life and other department or research group activities. Promoting such learning communities also entails encouraging reciprocal kindness and care in any relationship, vertical or horizontal.

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