RESEARCH GRANTS SCHEME
The SLSA Research Grants Scheme continues to attract applications from across the breadth of socio-legal studies. Our aim is to support work for which other funding sources are not available and to encourage socio-legal research initiatives in a practical way. In total the SLSA Board has awarded over £200,000 in support of a wide variety of socio-legal research projects under this scheme.
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 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
Legal and social frames of Sámi experiences: narrative construction of discrimination in truth and reconciliation commission in Finland
Anna Katila, City University of London
£2980
The scope for alternative body disposal techniques in Ireland: a socio-legal review
Kate Falconer, University College Cork
£2846
‘Coordinating’ workers’ rights in contemporary content creation: exploring the use of ‘intimacy coordinators’ in pornography
Charlotte English, University of Westminster
£2135.40
Enhancing government responsiveness by over-coming legal challenges of AI-driven chatbots in the public sector
Pardis Tehrani, Sunderland University
£1500
Perspectives on the gender pension gap: the Old Age and Widows’ Pensions Act 1940 and the National Spinsters’ Pensions Association (1935–1958)
Teresa Sutton, University of Sussex
£1190
Exploring how the statutory duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children features in the work of the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
Jonathan Collinson, University of Sheffield
£2900
Unravelling the paradox: investigating contrasts in administrative and criminal sanctions in the Dutch social security system
Paulien de Winter, University of Groningen
£1500
Towards an abolitionist feminist framework in former Yugoslavia
Jana Kujundžić, Northumbria University
£1500