From the perspective of promoting gender equality and creating a diverse research environment, the Support Center for Female Physicians and Researchers operates a system to support the creation of workplace environments and career development so that physicians and researchers from diverse backgrounds, including female researchers going through life events, can continue working for the long term.
研究支援員配置制度
Teikyo University has implemented a "Research Supporter Placement System" that assigns "research support staff" to female researchers who are facing pregnancy, childbirth, childcare, or elderly care and find it difficult to continue their research activities or find time to do research, and supports them in continuing their research. Previously, male researchers whose spouses are researchers were also eligible, but from 2025, male researchers who are single or raising children or elderly care will also be able to apply. For more information, please check the application guidelines, and if you would like support, please apply as follows.
* A spouse who is a researcher is someone whose spouse is employed full-time at a university, an inter-university research institute, or an independent administrative institution.
In order to support the balance between research activities and childcare, Teikyo University has implemented a system to partially subsidize the costs of using childcare facilities such as nighttime childcare, holiday childcare, childcare for sick or recovering children, and after-school childcare in the event of a sudden illness, injury, fever, etc. If you would like to use this system, please apply as follows.
Teikyo University distributes discount coupons to subsidize part of the fee for using babysitters for in-home childcare or transportation to and from nursery schools in order to support the balance between work and childcare for faculty and staff. If you would like to use it, please apply according to the following.
The word "mentor" comes from Mentor, the prince's educator in the epic poem Odysseus, and is translated as "supporter." The center's mentoring system builds a safe and trusting relationship through free dialogue between trained mentors and supported mentees, which reduces and resolves mentees' concerns about career development and leads to diverse career development. I aim to do that.
Overview of the mentor system
The new mentoring system offered by this center starts with building a relationship of trust between mentors and mentors. The problems that individuals face are becoming more diverse, and many cannot be solved by providing information or guidance. The mentor will listen to the problems and concerns that the mentor has, and work with them to concretize and think about the problems. The purpose of this system is to reduce and resolve mentors' concerns about their career development, promote diverse career development through horizontal connections, and build multifaceted relationships by expanding the university network. Mentors will undergo training and are expected to improve their human resource development and management skills by supporting mentors. Mentors who wish to become mentors and receive support from a mentor will be matched with a mentor based on their needs.
