Benefits and motives for peer mentoring in higher education: an exploration through the lens of cultural capital

Despite the large and diverse cohorts recruited annually across globe to university sport programmes, few studies have assessed value of peer support within sports education settings. Even more surprising is lack research explored encounters mentors who help deliver these schemes impact it had on their professional development. Conducted at a post-92 English university, this study benefits motives students volunteering become in second year university. Drawing Bourdieu’s key concepts as guiding theoretical framework, suggests that participants, were predominantly first generation attend engaged mentoring develop cultural capital for chosen field, but also give back development social mentees. Practical implications developing future programmes are presented, avenues limitations.