Peer Support

Your Mentor will be a student in a higher year in your subject area, who you can arrange to meet as a one off or a few times a semester. Mentors are there to listen to you and help you navigate your time at HCA by sharing their experience. They can also help you identify questions you have and areas you may want to explore in your studies and wider university experience. Mentors may not always be able to answer your questions but they will be able to signpost you to those who can.  

The HCA Peer Community is made up of Peer Community Volunteers. For the academic year 2024/2025, the HCA Peer Community is open to all students within HCA, in any year group.

HCA Peer Community Volunteers will oversee activities and events for all year groups across the school of History, Classics and Archaeology, which students can opt in to attend.

Volunteers are organised according to the following groups:  

• Academic
• Social
• Wellbeing 

The HCA Writing Centre is a resource for students to engage directly with the skills of writing well. At the HCA Writing Centre, undergraduate students have the opportunity to work one-on-one with postgraduate writing tutors. Students meet for c. 45 minutes with a writing tutor from their subject area to work on an essay or assignment, at any point in its progression: to talk through how best to begin mapping out an essay, or to get editing advice, or simply to have an extra set of eyes look over an essay before its submission.