International Collaboration Funding Scheme

The SLSA invites submissions for this scheme aimed at supporting SLSA members to undertake international collaborative activities that are specifically aimed at building connections with socio-legal scholars and socio-legal communities beyond the UK.

Applications will reopen in June 2025.

See our impact and international collaboration grantholders roll of honour for details of past winners. 

The funding can be used to initiate and build new connections as well as strengthen existing relationships with socio-legal scholars or socio-legal communities beyond the UK in order to lay the groundwork for, and develop, new collaborative research initiatives or capacity-building activities.

Each award under the scheme is limited to a maximum of £2,500. The International Fund includes earmarked support for excellent collaborations specifically aimed at involving socio-legal scholars or socio-legal communities located in the Global South.

Note: a proportion of this funding pot is ring-fenced for those in precarious employment.

Applications

Note: all applicants must be current members in good standing of the Socio-Legal Studies Association. You can check your membership status here. 

All applications are required to have a lead applicant being an SLSA member based at an institution in the UK, and be made in partnership with at least one ‘international partner’, eg an individual academic from an institution outside the UK, or an organisation outside the UK.

Applications must be made through the standard form provided below. Applications must be accompanied by a letter from an authorised person within the lead applicant’s home institution undertaking to administer any award in accordance with that institution’s approved financial procedures. Applicants must also include a letter of support from the international partner’s institution/international partner organisation.

Please download the International Collaboration funding scheme guidance below for full details of the scheme. Please ensure that your application accords with the guidance.

• International Collaboration Funding Scheme guidance and application form

Completed applications, along with supporting documents, must be submitted by email to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by the annual deadline of 31 October. Decisions are expected to be made around the end of January in the following year.

The International Collaboration Funding Scheme is administered by the Grants Subcommittee. All queries about the scheme should be directed in the first instance to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..