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An opportunity for you to chat to a current English student, get your questions answered and help you settle into life at the university.

Peer mentoring

Who are the mentors? 

The mentors are all fully-trained current students studying one of the courses we offer in English. The scheme is open to undergraduate students only.

New undergraduates are matched with current second or third year students.

How does it work? 

You are matched with a mentor who shares similar interests and course of study to you. Your peer mentor will keep in contact with you throughout the year and is there to offer support and share their knowledge. They are available from the end of August so you can get ahead of the game before your course even begins.

There are some issues that fall in between what your friends can help you with and what you want to ask a lecturer you have never met before, and the mentoring scheme fills those gaps wonderfully. Thanks to my mentor, on my third day at Nottingham, I already knew everything there was to know about the library, the online portal and how to make the most of my seminars. My mentor is a wonderful person; they have made the difference between my first weeks at Nottingham being unproductive and achieving a good balance of social and academic life.

Want to find out more or get a mentor?

 

Study Buddy Scheme

You can sign up in early October. Study Buddy is different to peer mentoring in that we match you with students in the same year as you, who are

• taking some of the same modules or course as you and/or
• part of the School of English

By being part of the Study Buddy Scheme, you can meet other students on your course, broaden your network, have a group you can attend lectures and seminars with and a group you can study with throughout the year.

You can sign up during your first two weeks at university, so look out for an email from the Education and Student Experience (ESE) team with the sign-up form.

I am a third-year student, currently studying PPE. I took part in the Study Buddy Scheme in my second year and found so helpful! The scheme basically matched me up with two other philosophy students who I shared a module with and gave me the opportunity to meet and hang out with them. I found this really helpful, because as a Joint Honours student, I don't really have many contact hours with people from the School of Philosophy and found it hard to create a study group on my own. I'm still in contact with one of the people I was initially matched with which is great.