SEMINAR COMPETITION
The SLSA Seminar Competition supports the delivery of either an individual seminar or short conference, or a series of events. There are no restrictions concerning the subject matter, provided that applicants can show relevance to the socio-legal community. We are happy to fund successful seminar proposals which can realistically draw other sources of funding in addition to an SLSA award.
Applications open on 15 July 2026 and close on 6 October 2026.
COMPETITION GUIDANCE
Under this scheme, individual awards are between £500 and £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. 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 2027.
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.
Seminar Committee
The Committee Chair is Professor Rachel Cahill-O'Callaghn, Cardiff University. For queries about this scheme: please email admin@slsa.ac.uk. Please ensure that any queries are raised well in advance and no later than one week before the deadline. Responses may take time, as the administrative support is not full-time.
ROLL OF HONOUR
2026
‘Embedding Environmental Justice in Legal Education: Towards a Curriculum Model’
Emma Roberts
tbc
£3820
tbc
‘Forging Connections: An Early Career Symposium on Poverty and Social Justice’
Freya Cole Norton
University of Oxford
£950
6 May 2026
‘40 Years of Gillick: Legal and Clinical Reflections on Children as Decision-Makers’
Edmund Horowicz
tbc
£3200
tbc
Reforming Legal and Policy Responses to Investigating and Prosecuting Sexual Violence
Eithne Dowds, Queen’s University Belfast, Elizabeth Agnew, Queen’s University Belfast, Susan Leahy, University of Limerick, & Siobhan Weare, Lancaster University
Venue: tbc
£2890
19–20 June 2025
‘Law and the Unconscious: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychoanalysis and the Law’
Richard Cornes
tbc
£2950
tbc
‘Accountability in Custody: Law, Mental Health, and Institutional Practice’
Sarah Waite
Leeds Law School
£4000
12 May 2026
Disability and Rights: The Possibilities and Limits of Rights Discourses under Neoliberalism
Danielle Watson, University of Leicester
Online hosted by University of Birmingham
£2991.62
13-14 June 2025
Decolonising the Body
Zaina Mahmoud, University of Liverpool
School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool
£2875
14 January 2026