IMPACT GRANTS
Applications are invited on an annual basis for this funding scheme. Impact activities can include, for example, public engagement events, follow-on funding, producing policy briefs/reports, developing relationships with non-academic partners and the like. All SLSA members (including PGR students) are eligible to apply.
This scheme is open for applications. The closing date is 31 October 2025.
SCHEME GUIDANCE
Under this scheme, individual awards are up to a maximum of £4000.
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.
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.
Impact Committee
The Committee Chair is Professor David Cowan, Cardiff University. For queries about this scheme: please email admin@slsa.ac.uk.
ROLL OF HONOUR
2022
‘Publish not perish!' An academic publishing podcast
Kay Lalor, Manchester Metropolitan University, and Zainab Naqvi, De Montfort University
£1475
Gender in online drug purchasing
Alex Dymock, Goldsmiths University of London
£1415
‘Tattooing in the archive: a zine exploring how cultural heritage institutions and changes to the law could support community tattooing archives
Melanie Stockton-Brown, Bournemouth University
£1300
Getting on YOUR case: basic justice
Louise Hewitt & Ella Simpson, University of Greenwich
£783.20
Recognising pet bereavement in the workplace’: free online seminar 16 November 2022
Marie Fox, University of Liverpool
£1420
Re-imagining secure care for children
Rachel Dunn, Leeds Beckett University
£1500
The Grenfell Tower Inquiry: perceptions of the survivors, bereaved families and North Kensington community’, workshop series, May 2024
Natalie Ohana, University of Exeter
£1500
From the university to the Grand Chamber: how can academic work on asylum and immigration have greater impact in the European Court of Human Rights, 9 May 2024
Maja Grundler, Royal Holloway College
£1500