Mentoring

Explore your mentoring opportunities

Whether you are looking to be a mentor or mentee, Oxford Brookes' mentoring schemes offer some amazing opportunities. You could be gaining experience in a professional environment, helping others develop specific skills or participating in the community.
Use these pages to find out which mentoring scheme is best suited to you.

Focus on mentoring

What your mentoring journey could look like »

What students say about mentoring »

Little Book of Mentoring@Brookes (pdf)

Other mentoring options

Training and resources for mentoring schemes

Studied at Brookes and want to be a mentor?

Professional Schemes

Your professional mentor offers an amazing opportunity to access networks, experiences, tips and get ahead information about the world of work.

Peer Schemes

Students mentor other students. Peer means equals sharing what you know, your experience and support in developing specific skills or knowledge or just being someone to turn to.

Participation Schemes

Be a mentor outside the university, participating in the community, at local schools or to particular groups of young people. Helping them make decisions about subjects at school and what to do with their future.

Placement Schemes

Many courses offer a placement out in industry. When you do a placement you are supported by a mentor, usually in your workplace.

Pre-Arrival Schemes

A student already at Brookes e-mentors an applicant who’s applying for a place at the university and gives advice based on their own experience, explaining how they settled in and began studying.

“Everyone should have a mentor no matter how far up the career ladder they are”

“To have access to experience, empathy and professional advice can be the most valuable asset we take on our career”

“Students do benefit greatly from a senior figure who can relate to his/her past and the mentee’s likely future experiences”

“Each session is different depending on what the student wants to discuss and it’s not all serious – we actually end up laughing a lot!”

“You need to take your learning beyond the classroom”