This book addresses how peer mentoring in higher education can contribute to the development of supportive and collaborative working environments for faculty staff. It draws on an extensive empirical study examining how peer-mentoring methods are implemented and experimented within four different academic communities at one university, and documents how these environments and their participants experience peer mentoring as a collaborative measure in the development of teaching and supervision practices. The book presents a literature review of research on peer mentoring in higher education and provides the conceptual grounding for the book, placing peer mentoring within the field of faculty development. weiterlesen