PHD FIELDWORK GRANTS
The aim of the SLSA PhD Fieldwork Grants Scheme is to support fieldwork for which other funding sources are not available and to encourage socio-legal research initiatives in a practical way. The SLSA welcomes and encourages applications from PGR members for research funding in all areas of socio-legal studies. In total the SLSA Board has awarded over £61,000 in support of a wide variety of socio-legal research projects under this scheme.
This scheme is now closed. It will reopen in summer 2026.
SCHEME GUIDANCE
Under this scheme, individual awards are up to a maximum of £2000.
Note: a proportion of this funding pot is ring-fenced for those in precarious employment.
Applicants to the scheme must be current members in good standing of the SLSA, wherever they live, on 31 October in the year of the application. You can check your membership status here.
Please download and read the guidance carefully before submitting your application.
You must use the online form for your grant application. Note: If you need the guidance or application form in an alternative, accessible format, please contact the SLSA Administrator.
Applicants will be advised of the success or otherwise of their applications in early February each year.
You are advised to look at the titles, reports and summaries from past grantholders published in previous issues of the Socio-Legal Newsletter to help you decide whether your project is appropriate for a grant.
Applying for a grant: 'dos' and 'don'ts'
Advice about applying for our funding schemes has appeared in past issues of the the Socio-Legal Newsletter. The guidance was updated in June 2024 by Rebecca Moosavian and Marie Selwood.
See below for the full list of past grantholders and project titles.
Grants Committee
The Committee Chair is Dr Richard Craven, University of Sheffield. For queries about this scheme: please email admin@slsa.ac.uk.
ROLL OF HONOUR
2025
The laws of motion: towards a sensational jurisprudence of movement within the court
James Campbell, Oxford University
£1500
Navigating justice: a guide for interpreter-mediated hearings in the Immigration and Asylum Tribunals
Banaz Kamil, University of the West of Scotland
£1340
Are behavioural regulatory tools legitimate? A post-structuralist analysis of tools to promote MMR vaccination in France
Vendula Kolarik Mezeiova, Oxford University
£1500
'To revolutionary type love': legal mobilization by Black lesbian, bisexual and queer (LBQ+) women and non-binary people in Kenya and South Africa
Waruguru Gaitho, Cambridge University
£1000
Encountering blue transformation: a legal ethnography of small-scale fishers’ resistance against salmon farming in Norway and Chile
Sophie Quist, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
£1475
Criminal law as a site for feminist reforms: analysing the enactment and enforcement of rape laws in India
Preeti Pratishruti Dash, Cambridge University
£1500
Socio-legal lives of contested statues in India
Saptarshi Mandal, Kent University
£1000
‘Concealed claims, contested citizens: a study of India’s informal internal migrant workers
Ayesha Pattnaik, Oxford University
£1000