International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring

The International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring has been publishing evidence based coaching and mentoring research since 2003. Its audience is academic specialists, postgraduate students, practitioners, and managers or leaders who wish to keep abreast of scholarship, theory-building and empirical research in the field of coaching and mentoring. The journal is double blind peer-reviewed.

An excerpt from the editorial of our first issue (Cox & Ledgerwood, 2003) conveys the journal’s evidence-based philosophy and mission:

‘Evidence-based’ is not just trendy educational jargon. It is an approach which claims that practice should be capable of being justified in terms of sound evidence: it is the process of methodically searching out, evaluating, and utilising up-to-date research findings to support decisions about practice. It is only by grounding the practice of coaching and mentoring in this way that the necessary credibility will be achieved. […]

The aim of the journal is twofold: firstly, to offer an accessible yet powerful discussion platform for the growing number of coaching and mentoring practitioners seeking to validate their practice, and secondly, to provide evidence-based, well-researched resources for students, professionals, corporate clients, managers and academic specialists who need to be at the forefront of developments in the field.

The advent of the journal back in 2003 saw the formal alignment of coaching and mentoring as two different, but closely linked, approaches to helping people increase their sense of self-direction, self-esteem, efficacy and achievement. The main distinction being that coaching, unlike mentoring, does not rely necessarily on the specific experience and knowledge of the coach being greater than that of the client. We believe that mentoring is enhanced by the use of coaching methods, such as perceptive questioning, but also allows knowledge and experience to be conveyed for the client’s benefit. The content of the journal continues to reflect this close association between coaching and mentoring.

Reference

Cox, E. and Ledgerwood, G. (2003) 'Editorial: The New Profession', International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring, 1 (1). Available at: https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/items/ce783bb6-e49e-478c-aee8-b9a1c1bdd466/1/