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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear Colleagues,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Call for Mentors for the CSAA Mentoring Scheme 2021</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">After a hiatus in 2020 due to the pandemic, the CSAA Mentoring Scheme is back in action for 2021.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Mentoring Scheme is designed to provide professional guidance and support to CSAA members who are early career academics, independent scholars and in non-continuing positions
or regional locations. Applicants should already have their PhD, although if you have submitted and are awaiting results you may also apply.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">At this stage, we are asking for established scholars to volunteer as mentors. It would be great to see mid-career scholars sign up, as well as more senior members. As anyone who
has mentored or been mentored will know, it can be a very rewarding experience that can lead to enduring friendships. It does involve a time commitment, however, which would typically be 4-6 online meetings over the remainder of 2021.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">This year, we will be supplementing one-on-one meetings between mentors and mentees with some group sessions for the mentees to share experiences, ask questions and get to know one
another. Those will be entirely optional for mentors.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">To apply, send an email to me directly at
</span></b><a href="mailto:michael.richardson@unsw.edu.au"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">michael.richardson@unsw.edu.au</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> with a couple of words about the
kind of mentoring you’d feel best equipped to do (publishing, grants, teaching, job applications, etc). </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Please note, if you volunteered to mentor in 2019, I’ll be in touch directly to see if you still want to stay on the roster. No need to write to me now. </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">At our last call for mentors in 2019, the vast majority of initial volunteers were women. And, as many members would know intimately, women often take up the bulk of mentoring responsibilities
in their work contexts too. So in making this call, I would like to emphasise two things:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">First, it would be excellent to see more men put their hands up to mentor. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Second, if you know that you already do a lot of this work, please don’t feel obliged to put yourself forward now.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">With many talented and thoughtful scholars in our midst, I’ve no doubt that we can put together a terrific group of mentors that captures the richness and breadth of cultural studies
and cognate scholarship in Australasia that is also more equitable in its distribution of labour. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Stay tuned for another call for mentees in the next couple of weeks.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">With all best wishes,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Michael Richardson</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">CSAA Membership Officer</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">-----<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr Michael Richardson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Senior Research Fellow (ARC DECRA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Co-Director,
<a href="http://www.mediafutureshub.org/"><span style="color:#0563C1">Media Futures Hub</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">School of the Arts & Media<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University of New South Wales<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="mailto:michael.richardson@unsw.edu.au"><span style="color:#0563C1">michael.richardson@unsw.edu.au</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://unsw.academia.edu/MichaelRichardson"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://unsw.academia.edu/MichaelRichardson</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www.twitter.com/richardson_m_a"><span style="color:#0563C1">@richardson_m_a</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">I acknowledge and pay my respects to the Traditional Custodians of the land I work and live on, particularly the Bedegal and Gadigal Peoples, and their elders past and present. Sovereignty was
never ceded, and the struggle for justice continues.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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