
Call of Interest
May 6, 2026
The Future Frontiers of Trans Activism. Regional Dialogues on Policy, Resistance, and Rights
May 18, 2026Are you a YRI and need support from a senior researcher? Are you a senior research and want to contribute to capacity building of YRIs?
CA23149’ mentoring programme helps to match YRIs with senior researchers and to built capacity in antigender politics’ research!
- General mentoring: information and discussion with a mentor regarding career planning
o The mentor is obliged to confidentiality and should advise the mentee during a series of 1-3 virtual private sessions, if necessary even more. There will be an agreement between mentor and mentee. - Mentoring of submitting a book or special issue proposal, and if wished, also of preparing such an outcome which should be connected with the aims of CA23149. Mentor and mentee should sign an agreement of confidentiality.
o The mentor is obliged to confidentiality and support the mentee without ulterior motives.
o The mentor may contribute to the outcome, but should not listed as editor before the preparing YRI.
o The mentor should advise and help to compile a proposal or manuscript of good quality. The mentor should read an comment the papers as a ‘usal’ editor but comment the remarks of the mentee so that s/he can “learn by doing”. - Mentoring of submitting a project application. Herewith, we aim at shaping the career steps and funding experiences of YRIs. Mentor and mentee should sign an agreement of confidentiality. The mentor should give advise on the project architecture, the planned outcomes, and first and foremost on the conceptual approach. The mentor may be part of the project’s consortium.
The CA23149 chairs will collect CA-members willing to become a mentor. Interested members should send basic information (name, position, email and disciplines and particular research interests, and perhaps previous experiences) to CA’s chair heidi.hein-kircher@rub.de at any time. The chairs will prepare a data basis for matching.
Persons who are interested in becoming a mentee and search for support should write their interest to the chairs too. They need also basic information (name, position, email, discipline and ideas for publication / project proposal). The chairs will try to find a matching mentor for the mentee. We are asking to send their request to heidi.hein-kircher@rub.de at any time.

