Memory work in mentoring: Reflections from UK supervisory practice

Peng, Lance ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1825-6146 (2026) Memory work in mentoring: Reflections from UK supervisory practice. Communication Teacher, n/a. pp. 1-4. ISSN 1740-4630

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Abstract / Summary

At UK universities in the 2020s, supervising undergraduate and postgraduate students has often felt like navigating a rolling horizon, where the rules of engagement change midterm and what counts as safe discussion is never entirely clear. Precarity (both my own and my students’) lingers in the background, shaping what is possible, permissible, sometimes perilously invisible in teaching. Within this context I have turned to mnemohistory (Assmann, 2008) as a lens for supervision: an approach that treats memory not as a static repository but as a dynamic, interpretive practice that can uncover, trace, reconstruct histories that have been marginalised or suppressed. In my supervisory conversations, memory work becomes a tool to illuminate past injustices, archival silences and also forgotten voices, embedding these traces into contemporary student learning. This piece reflects on how engaging students in remembering, interrogating, reimagining such histories allows us to resist institutional erasures and prepare students to engage with the social and political currents shaping communication studies today.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number:	10.1080/17404622.2025.2605217
ISSN:	1740-4630
Subjects:	Education
Department:	Academy of Innovation and Research
SWORD Depositor:	Mr Pub Router
Depositing User:	Mr Pub Router
Date Deposited:	05 Mar 2026 15:56
Last Modified:	05 Mar 2026 15:56
URI:	https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/6332

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