SLSA prizes, grants and seminarsApart from our events programme, the SLSA also runs three annual awards: our book and article prizes; our small grants scheme; and our new seminar competition. All these initiatives are intended to promote socio-legal studies and showcase the high quality of academic scholarship of SLSA members. See below for summaries of all the schemes or follow the links for further details.
Our three annual prizes are sponsored by Hart Publishing and announced at our SLSA annual conference: - the Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize – £250
- the Socio-Legal Article Prize – £100
- and the Hart Prize for Early Career Academics – £250.
The complete rules and entry forms can be found by following this link. The winners of all the prizes are traditionally announced at our annual dinner on the last night of our conference. For a full list of winners, please see our prizewinners page. top The SLSA Small Grants Scheme continues to be one of our most successful initiatives. The SLSA provides £8000 per year to fund the programme. For full details and an application form, please follow this link. The closing date for the next round of grant applications is 31 October 2008. top To complement our popular Small Grants Scheme, in 2006 the SLSA Executive Committee decided to allocate £5000 a year for a Seminar Competition. For full details, please follow this link. Winners in 2007, 2009 and 2010 are listed below. In 2008, no awards were made. The closing date for the next round is 31 January 2011. Seminar Competition winners 2010The SLSA is delighted to announce the winners of this year's seminar competition. There were two winning entries. The judging panel agreed that both entries, which represent very different facets of socio-legal work, were outstanding and deserve to be supported. ‘Socio-Legal Perspectives on Contemporary Mobilities: Theoretical and Policy Implications’
Louise Ackers of the Liverpool Law School has been awarded £3500 to support two events on this topic at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge. 'The Role of Databases in Transitional Justice Research'.
Louise Mallinder and Catherine O'Rourke of the Transitional Justice Unit, University of Ulster have been awarded £4000 to support their event.
Seminar Competition winners 2009'Socializing Economic Relationships – New Perspectives and Methods for Analysing Transnational Risk Regulation' 15 & 16 April 2010, Centre for Socio-legal Studies, Oxford Lead applicant: Dr Bettina Lange, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University,
Other applicant: Dr Dania Thomas, School of Law, Keele University Award: £4000
Seminar Competition winners 2007There were two winners in the first year. ‘Children’s Participation in Research Processes: Putting Theory into Practice’ 10-12 September 2007, University of Liverpool Lead applicant: Professor Christina Lyon and Other applicant: Mike Jones (formerly of The Children’s Society) Both applicants are from the Centre for the Study of the Child, the Family and the Law, Liverpool Law School, University of Liverpool Award: £3590 'Positions on the Politics of Porn: A Debate on Government Plans to Criminalise the Possession of Extreme Pornography' 15 March 2007, University of Durham Lead applicant: Clare McGlynn
Other applicants: Erika Rackley and Nicole Westmarland
All applicants are from the University of Durham Award: £1097.50 Reports on both events are published on our seminar competition reports page.
In 2008, it was judged that none of the entrants was suitable for a seminar grant. top |
