Postgraduate Bursaries for LSAANZ 2025
LSAANZ is offering two bursaries for postgraduate students attending the 2025 conference. Each bursary covers the full registration fee plus a grant of NZD $1,000 to support travel costs.
Applications should be sent to lsaanzcomms@gmail.com and will be assessed by the LSAANZ Executive Committee.
Eligibility Criteria
To qualify for the bursary, applicants must:
- Be a student member of LSAANZ;
- Be enrolled in a Higher Degree by Research qualification (PhD or research Masters degree), in an Australian or New Zealand university;
- Be undertaking that degree in an area of research that is demonstrably of relevance to the LSAANZ remit;
- Make a commitment to attend and actively participate in:
o the LSAANZ conference, and
o the LSAANZ Postgraduate Workshop that takes place on the day before the conference;
- Be open to active ongoing involvement in LSAANZ activities (for example assisting in organizing and or/presenting at future LSAANZ activities, considering nominating to take on a role in LSAANZ committees, working groups, etc.)
- Demonstrate a case for needing the LSAANZ bursary in order to attend the conference and the Postgraduate Workshop (for example be unable to access sufficient funding from home institution to support attendance at the LSAANZ conference, or other financial exigencies).
Application Requirements
Applicants are required to provide:
· a response to the points of the eligibility criteria (as above);
· a brief (200 word maximum) statement of their research topic and the relevance of that topic to the field of law and society research in Australia and New Zealand;
· a statement of the financial support that they are seeking (such support may be for travel, accommodation, registration fee or any mix of these);
· a brief statement of support for their application from their principal research supervisor.
University of Canterbury LSAANZ Organising Committee Travel Scholarships
*The University of Canterbury LSAANZ Organising Committee, with generous support from the Borrin Foundation, is pleased to offer Travel Scholarships to assist Early Career Researchers attending the LSAANZ 2025 Conference.
Details regarding eligibility, application process, and deadlines for the UC Travel Scholarship will be announced on this page in due course.
