Peer mentoring

How to get support and guidance from a current student in your first term, through our peer mentoring programme.

Who can request a peer mentor

You can get one-to-one support and guidance from a current student in your first term if you are a:

The peer mentoring programme runs from the start of the academic year in September until January.

Peer mentors are current students at the University, usually in their second or third year.

They can:

Mentors cannot provide:

academic support. This includes:
- tutoring or teaching
- explaining course material
- helping with coursework
- providing assignment feedback.

If you need academic support, see our PASS programme.

mental health support. However, mentors can signpost you to helpful services.

You can spend up to one hour per week with your mentor.

This will start in September and end in the last week of January.

Where possible, we match new students with mentors studying a similar subject to them.

You can also request to be matched with a mentor who shares a protected characteristic, such as:

You can request a peer mentor from Results Day until the end of October.

Complete the peer mentor application form, and we'll aim to match you with a mentor within two weeks of receiving your application.

Your mentor will contact you by email to arrange your first meeting.

We recruit peer mentors each year in January and February. Interviews are held in March.

We will advertise the job description and application form on mycareer.