Desiging a Pilot Mentoring Program for a Priestley 11: A Tiered and Trauma-informed Approach Without Crowding Curriculum

Kelley Burton; Quinn Edwards; Dale Mitchell; Leon Harris

doi:10.53300/001c.169860

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Desiging a Pilot Mentoring Program for a Priestley 11: A Tiered and Trauma-informed Approach Without Crowding Curriculum

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Desiging a Pilot Mentoring Program for a Priestley 11: A Tiered and Trauma-informed Approach Without Crowding Curriculum

Kelley Burton, Quinn Edwards, Dale Mitchell and Leon Harris

Legal Education Review, Vol.36(2), pp.71-92

2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.53300/001c.169860

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Law

Mentoring

Mentoring programs have become a critical element for Australian law schools to address concerns of student retention and wellbeing. Some mentoring programs have sought to utilise the wisdom of legal professionals, much as the classical style of mentoring relied on an older, wiser figure guiding a younger, less-experienced protege. Others have gone beyond this classical form to utilise peer mentoring strategies to foster skills at the tertiary level. However, no law school has yet designed a tiered mentoring program, implementing the benefits of both peer and professional mentors to better address the concerns articulated around student retention and success. This article seeks to critique the binary of these mentoring approaches, advocating for the utility of tiered mentoring approaches combining peer to peer and professional to student mentoring to enhance student learning experiences. In doing so, this paper draws upon the breadth of evolving research related to curriculum crowding and a mapping of current mentoring programs across Australian law schools to position tiered mentoring as not only valuable and practical, but as a necessity to meet the challenges of modern legal education.

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Title: Desiging a Pilot Mentoring Program for a Priestley 11: A Tiered and Trauma-informed Approach Without Crowding Curriculum
Authors: Kelley Burton - University of the Sunshine Coast
Quinn Edwards - University of the Sunshine Coast
Dale Mitchell - University of the Sunshine Coast
Leon Harris - University of the Sunshine Coast
Publication details: Legal Education Review, Vol.36(2), pp.71-92
Publisher: Australasian Law Teachers Association
Date published: 2026
DOI: 10.53300/001c.169860
ISSN: 1839-3713
Copyright note: © Copyright the authors. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivative 4.0 International Licence.
Organisation Unit: School of Law and Society
Language: English
Record Identifier: 991258595902621
Output Type: Journal article

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