Mentoring Scheme: call for mentees AND mentors
Applications are open!
The SLSA’s mentoring scheme will return for the 2025-2026 academic year and we would love for you to be involved. This scheme forms part of delivering our EDI strategy to widen participation in the SLSA and the socio-legal community, including by members employed on precarious contracts.
The aim of the scheme is to provide opportunities for members to create connections with other researchers, foster a sense of community, and create channels for knowledge transfer between more established socio-legal scholars and those in earlier stages of their careers or those wishing to return following career breaks.
The scheme will offer 10 places to mentees. The scheme will kick-off with a plenary session in October 2025, and mentoring pairs will meet at least twice more remotely with the possibility of meeting in person at the SLSA Conference in March/April 2026 at The University of Sussex. In addition, two additional remote plenary sessions will be arranged with a focus on publishing, and funding/impact.
The purpose of the scheme is to provide support for those who may face structural disadvantage in their academic careers in line with our EDI and anti-precarity commitments. Applications will be reviewed by the EDI Committee with this in mind.
Prospective mentees are asked to send a completed application form along with a two-page CV to
If you would like to be a mentor on the scheme, please send a short expression of interest to
Please circulate widely within your networks!