{"id":710,"date":"2026-06-09T08:42:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T08:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mpa.hopeembark.org\/?page_id=710"},"modified":"2026-08-07T01:14:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T01:14:51","slug":"mentoring","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mpa.hopeembark.org\/index.php\/mentoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Mentoring"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"710\" class=\"elementor elementor-710\" data-elementor-settings=\"{&quot;ha_cmc_init_switcher&quot;:&quot;no&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-50a9b96 elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"50a9b96\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" 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Nothing is hidden behind a deposit.<\/p><\/div>\n    <div class=\"step\"><b>2<\/b><h4>Sign electronically<\/h4><p>Type your legal name to sign. An executed copy is emailed to you and to your representative at once.<\/p><\/div>\n    <div class=\"step\"><b>3<\/b><h4>Pay by card<\/h4><p>The payment button unlocks only after signing. Stripe handles the card; we never see your card details.<\/p><\/div>\n    <div class=\"step\"><b>4<\/b><h4>Meet your mentor<\/h4><p>mpa@hopeembark.org contacts you within 1\u20132 business days to confirm your mentor and book session 1.<\/p><\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"sec\">\n  <h2>The 15 hours in detail<\/h2>\n  <p class=\"lede\">Five phases, fifteen 60-minute sessions. The order adapts to your project; the destination does not \u2014 a manuscript you wrote, submitted to a real venue, with you ready for peer review.<\/p>\n\n  <div class=\"phase\"><div class=\"ph\"><h3>Phase 1 \u00b7 Finding a real question<\/h3><em>Hours 1\u20133<\/em><\/div>\n    <div class=\"sess\"><div class=\"n\">1<\/div><div><h4>Intake, goals, and target venue<\/h4><p>Skills audit and research-experience baseline; what these 15 hours must produce (paper, thesis chapter, conference abstract); a shortlist of realistic target journals and conferences with their deadlines and scope.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"sess\"><div class=\"n\">2<\/div><div><h4>Reading the literature like a researcher<\/h4><p>Search strategy across Google Scholar, Scopus and arXiv; reference manager set up (Zotero); a 20-paper landscape map that separates settled results from open questions.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"sess\"><div class=\"n\">3<\/div><div><h4>From gap to hypothesis<\/h4><p>Turning an observed gap into one falsifiable research question; feasibility scoped against your actual time, data and compute; writing the one-sentence claim the whole paper will defend.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"phase\"><div class=\"ph\"><h3>Phase 2 \u00b7 Designing the study<\/h3><em>Hours 4\u20136<\/em><\/div>\n    <div class=\"sess\"><div class=\"n\">4<\/div><div><h4>Study design and methods<\/h4><p>Choosing a design that can actually answer the question; variables, controls, baselines and comparators; naming the threats to validity before they become reviewer comments.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"sess\"><div class=\"n\">5<\/div><div><h4>Data: acquisition and ethics<\/h4><p>Public datasets versus your own collection; licences and data-use terms; IRB and ethics review where human subjects are involved; a data dictionary and provenance record you can cite in Methods.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"sess\"><div class=\"n\">6<\/div><div><h4>Analysis plan and reproducible setup<\/h4><p>Pre-specifying the analysis so results are not shopped for; a project skeleton with Git, pinned environment and a runnable notebook \u2014 the setup reviewers increasingly ask to see.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"phase\"><div class=\"ph\"><h3>Phase 3 \u00b7 Doing the research<\/h3><em>Hours 7\u201310<\/em><\/div>\n    <div class=\"sess\"><div class=\"n\">7<\/div><div><h4>Baseline and first results<\/h4><p>Getting an end-to-end pipeline running on real data, however crude; reading your first output critically; debugging the gap between what you expected and what came out.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"sess\"><div class=\"n\">8<\/div><div><h4>Core experiments and statistics<\/h4><p>Running the experiments that test the hypothesis; effect sizes and uncertainty rather than bare p-values; correcting for multiple comparisons; understanding what your test actually assumes.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"sess\"><div class=\"n\">9<\/div><div><h4>Robustness, ablations, negative results<\/h4><p>Sensitivity checks and ablations that pre-empt \u201chow do we know it isn\u2019t X?\u201d; how to report a negative or null result honestly \u2014 and why it can still be publishable.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"sess\"><div class=\"n\">10<\/div><div><h4>Figures and tables that carry the argument<\/h4><p>Designing each figure to make one point; axis, scale and colour choices that survive review; the reporting standards (CONSORT, PRISMA, venue checklists) your field expects.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"phase\"><div class=\"ph\"><h3>Phase 4 \u00b7 Writing the manuscript<\/h3><em>Hours 11\u201313<\/em><\/div>\n    <div class=\"sess\"><div class=\"n\">11<\/div><div><h4>Paper architecture<\/h4><p>Storyboarding the manuscript from the one-sentence claim; what belongs in each section and what does not; an outline detailed enough that drafting becomes filling in.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"sess\"><div class=\"n\">12<\/div><div><h4>Drafting Methods and Results<\/h4><p>Writing Methods someone else could actually replicate; presenting results without interpreting them; tense, voice and the reporting conventions of your target venue.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"sess\"><div class=\"n\">13<\/div><div><h4>Introduction, Discussion, abstract, title<\/h4><p>The four-move introduction; a discussion that states limitations before reviewers do; positioning against related work; an abstract and title that survive a 20-second editorial screen.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"phase\"><div class=\"ph\"><h3>Phase 5 \u00b7 Submission and peer review<\/h3><em>Hours 14\u201315<\/em><\/div>\n    <div class=\"sess\"><div class=\"n\">14<\/div><div><h4>Submitting it<\/h4><p>Final venue choice and fit check; formatting to the author guidelines; cover letter; ORCID, authorship and conflict-of-interest declarations; data and code availability statements; preprint strategy; walking the submission portal end to end.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n    <div class=\"sess\"><div class=\"n\">15<\/div><div><h4>Surviving peer review<\/h4><p>A mock review of your own manuscript by your mentor; 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