Arts and Education Peer Mentoring
Find your feet. Build your confidence. Make connections.
Faculty of Arts and Education (ArtsEd) Peer Mentoring connects you with experienced students who share practical tips and experiences to help you navigate university life.
Over five weeks at the beginning of each trimester, you'll meet other students, build confidence, explore practical strategies for managing challenges and discover support available at Deakin.
Through conversations and interactive activities, you'll develop valuable skills in communication, problem-solving, self-management and help-seeking, useful at university and beyond.
Come as you are. Leave with new connections, practical strategies and greater confidence to take your next step.
Your five-week journey
Five weeks. New connections. Practical strategies. Skills you can use at uni and beyond.
1. Find your place
Connect with other students, get comfortable with uni life and build confidence asking for help.
2. Find what works for you
Pick up practical ideas from other students and discover approaches to study and uni life that work for you.
3. Handle the bumps
Build your problem solving skills, discover useful support and become more confident navigating challenges.
4. Build your future
Recognise the communication, confidence, teamwork and new skills you're developing and connect them with where you want to go next.
5. See how far you've come
Reflect on what you've learned, recognise your growth and take your next steps with more confidence.
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Join in
- Receive guidance and advice on navigating uni life.
- Get insider tips to succeed at uni.
- Meet people and make friends.
- Build your confidence and awareness.
Your mentor will be an experienced student from the Faculty of Arts and Education who genuinely cares about your success.
They will share their knowledge, answer your university-related queries and provide guidance on where to access, and how to use Deakin's resources and services so that your first trimester or year at Deakin is less stressful and more enjoyable.
- Support new students with their uni experience.
- Build your leadership abilities and transferrable skills.
- Cultivate and develop relationships.
- Increase your confidence.
Interested? You will be an experienced student from the Faculty of Arts and Education who is:
- willing to guide new students as they transition into university life
- committed to the development of not just your mentees, but also yourself
- eager to listen, share, refer, broaden both your perspectives and network, and make an impact.
Application closing dates:
- Trimester 1 2027: 15 January 2027
- Trimester 2 2027: 21 May 2027
- Trimester 3 2027: 24 September 2027
- Want to access a quick one-off mentor support?
- Not really a new student, but need some advice?
- Want to ask just a couple of things?
- Missed out on the program for this trimester?
Mentors are accessible to new and current students throughout their whole Deakin journey.
You can book a one-off meeting with a mentor to get advice, navigate challenges, get a referral to services or ask a quick question. Consider participating in the program if you would like to see a mentor more than once.
Book a 15-minute meeting with a mentor.
Meet the mentors
Further opportunities
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Have a question?
Please email us for more information on the program.