My research looks at the lived experiences of working-class mature students in the South-West of England through a Bourdieusian lens. I am looking to find evidence of emergent forms of capital that students may embody that may enable them to overcome adversity and succeed in Higher Education despite lacking high levels of economic, social, and cultural capital. Unlike most academic research into mature students’ experiences, I am examining how certain forms of embodied experience and dispositions arising from them function as beneficial forms of capital.