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Mentor a student

Make a big difference to a student's life and future career by mentoring them.

Mentoring is a catalyst for personal and professional growth, helping shape academic and career success. Mentoring helps students to facilitate their own development, on their own terms. Mentors assist students in planning their development and can offer support in recalibrating when things don’t go as planned.

Mentoring is common in many work-places as mentoring can help people to reach their potential and explore the things they are most passionate about.

The mentoring programmes provide support to a broad range of eligible students; undergraduate, postgraduate, part-time and full-time from across the university. There are five programmes available, you can find out more below.

apply to be a mentor

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What's the time commitment?

You will meet every two weeks over four to six months. This may vary slightly by programme.

Due to the COVID-19 situation, all our mentoring programmes are being delivered virtually using tools such as Facetime, MS Teams, Zoom, Skype or WhatsApp.

How do I get involved?

Complete a short application form and once this is received, we will contact you to tell you more about the programme and provide training. We do not guarantee to match you with a student.

Which mentoring programme?

Momentum

Momentum supports students who identify as:

  • a mature student
  • a commuter student
  • a care leaver or estranged student
  • a man who is from a working class / low economic background
  • having a disability
  • in need of support to develop your confidence

This is a non-identity match programme, so you will not necessarily share a specified characteristic with your mentee.

BAME Match

The Black Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) Match programme pairs people of colour with students of colour.

This is an identity match programme.

Uni-Amex LGBT+ 

The Pride Network at American Express partners with the University of Brighton Careers Service to deliver the LGBT+ Uni-Amex mentoring programme. Mentors will have been referred to this programme by Niall Roche at American Express.

This programme supports students who identify as:

  • lesbian gay
  • bisexual
  • trans
  • non-binary
  • and all sexualities, genders and identities that fall under the plus.

This is an identity match programme, so mentors will share a specific characteristic with their mentee.

Men in Primary Education

The Men in Primary Education mentoring programme aims to counter the low numbers of male role models in primary education. If you are a current male primary school teacher, you can offer support to a man training to teach in primary schools. You will have the opportunity to share your knowledge and experience.

NGDP Graduate programme for students of colour 

This is a mentoring programme for students of colour who would like to apply for the NGDP graduate scheme.

If you are in your final year and interested in applying for a place on the 2 year local government graduate programme, then you can apply to have a mentor. Your mentor is a person of colour who is in their second year of the graduate programme within local government.

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