INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION FUNDING SCHEME
International Collaboration funding was launched in 2023 and first awarded in 2024. The funding is aimed at supporting SLSA members to undertake international collaborative activities that specifically aimed at building connections with socio-legal scholars and socio-legal communities beyond the UK. The International Fund includes earmarked support (thanks to the generous support of Social and Legal Studies) for excellent collaborations specifically aimed at involving socio-legal scholars or socio-legal communities located in the Global South.
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.
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 grant holders 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
Pracademia in law schools – an international community of practice
Jill Dickinson, Leeds Beckett University
£2286
Laying the groundwork and building collaborations for multi-scalar studies in the field of environmental law through a socio-legal mapping exercise of sanitary waste management systems in the Eastern Himalayan Region, India
Zainab Lokhandwala, University of Essex, & Monalisa Saha, Burdwan University
£2048
Strategic litigation on the progressive realisation of economic, social and cultural rights
Koldo Casla, University of Essex
£2500