Formal and informal peer support
Listen to this section:
Peer support can be formal or informal.
- Informal
-
There might be people in your life like you who provide this kind of support in an informal way, like your friends and family. A lot of people are natural peer supporters!
- Formal
-
Other people are paid to provide peer support in more formal ways. They might be professionals or coworkers.
If you are a peer supporter on a research team, you are providing formal peer support. It is part of your role on the team to help other team members who are new or have less research experience.
Go to the next page to learn more about peer support relationships.
If you want to skip ahead, see Show pages in this section at the top of the page.