Mentoring the Next Generation of Recovery Researchers: A Summer Course in Addiction-Recovery Studies

ABSTRACT

This perspective paper overviews the intergenerational coming together of a focused subset of the foundational addiction-recovery researchers and a highly motivated group of student researchers. It explores the process of science and practice of adult learning throughout the process. Multiple research areas were explored as the students engaged in active discussion with the presenters who spoke about their careers, their current work, what they envisioned for the future. This experience showed the importance of mentorship of new researchers by the pioneers in the field of addiction-recovery research.

KEYWORDS:

• Mentorship
• research
• andragogy

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