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This relationship is significant where dispersal is an unintended consequence of the way development aid intersects with academic opportunities for scholars from less developed countries, and, consequently, country-focused academic communities remain undeveloped as education becomes individualised. This situation occurs despite the fact that the self is social and education is a common good in many contexts, such as Solomon Islands in Melanesia.  \nUsing the contributions of participants in the Solomon Islands Research Mentoring Tok Stori (SIRMT), we discuss the various kinds of support and outcomes that become possible when deliberate attempts are made to create a connected community through mentoring in virtual space. Among the findings are the significance of mentorship to personal and academic growth, the potential of deliberate community building through virtual means in Solomon Islands and virtual tok stori as a catalyst to developments the physical world.  \nKeywords: Solomon Islands, mentoring, tok stori, leadership, digital, orality  \nIntroduction  \nWhen pursuing leadership development, a good fit between form and function is essential. What we understand as leadership should be reinforced by, and reified in, the ways we seek to foster new leaders. This article investigates productive relationships between mentoring as an academic activity and tok storias a Melanesian orality (Sanga & Reynolds, 2023) when exercised through an online mentoring platform. The argument follows the relational turn (Hollway, 2008) so that light is shed on the significance of mentoring as a relational activity during the doctoral journey, the operation of tok stori in a mentoring context and the potential of the relationship between the two. Elements of context that make this approach significant include the geographic dispersal of scholars from developing countries as a result of the way donor aid works, and collective identity as an aspect of the social self.  \nThe doctoral journey is as much about identity construction as the production of knowledge (Green, 2005) . That is, doctoral candidates are involved in a process of imagining who they could be or might become in the academic world (and beyond), as well as generating the knowledge that will afford them  \nstanding and influence. Within this process, participation by candidates in academic communities “is not a neutral act”(McAlpine & Amundsen, 2007, p. 61), but one in which relationships provide opportunities for agency, influence and shaping. In some contexts, academic community involvement may be adequately described through a nested context of a framework of department, university and society (McAlpine & Amundsen, 2007) . However, further consideration is required in the case of doctoral students from less developed countries on scholarships away from their home locations who are generally studying in more developed countries.  \nThe United Nations (2015) sustainable development goals (SDG) include international scholarship programs as a tool of progress. For example, SDG 4 includes the aim to “substantially expand globally the number of scholarships available to developing countries, in particular least developed countries,[including] small island developing states …for enrolment in higher education”(4b, p. 21) . 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