Small Grants Scheme

Announcing our Small Grants 2023/24 awardees

The Climate Justice Network’s small grants round for this year once again received a number of creative and compelling applications.

We are pleased to announce award winners for this year’s small grants of up to £650:

  • Charlotte Fraser CHASE funded PhD researcher – Department of Media, Journalism and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. Project: “Palestinian Stolen Goods Tour of the British Museum”.
  • Natalie Joelle – University of London Birkbeck. Project: “Unleaning Climate”
  • Taibat Hussain, Ehireme Alexis Uddin – University of East Anglia, SOAS, University of London. Project: “Empowering Change: Bridging Economics, Climate, and Justice in Africa” 
  • Theresa Frey – PhD researcher, University of East Anglia , Elizabeth Wassif – Youth Researcher, Juky Chen – Youth Researcher. Project: “Youth-Led Action and Activism: YPAR Climate & Education Justice Activists lead resistance and learning.”
  • Gerolamo Gnecchi – Goldsmiths University. Project: “Leaving the Tides of the Enlightenment” Goldsmiths University”

Announcing our Small Grants 2022/23 awardees for RESHAPE, RESIST, REBEL:

Update: Find out more about these project in the Considering Climate Podcast

The Climate Justice Network’s small grants round for this year once again received a number of creative and compelling applications.

Panellists for this year were invited from within the Network, as well as previous grant holders. Our panelists were: Alice Carlill, Effie Makepeace, Jemma Stewart and Marleen Boschen

Applications were reviewed anonymously, with names and institutional affiliations omitted.

We are pleased to announce award winners for this year’s small grants:

  • Kayonaaz Kalyanwala: “Expanding the Digital Public Sphere: Marginalised women’s use of digital media in environmental justice movements”
  • Amrita DasGupta: “Artistic Approaches to Record Trauma Narratives of Climate Exiles in Anthropocene: Sex Workers Painting a Life of Migration”
  • Elliot Honeybun-Arnolda: “There’s a climate crisis … so what?”
  • Anne Goliath: “Embodied Listening”
  • Clémentine Bedos: “Techno-Tantrik Embodiment”
  • George Cloke and Souksaveuy Keotiamchanh: “Happy Garden/ສວນສຸກໃຈ (suan suk chai)”

We look forward to keeping up to date with the projects as they develop. All awarded projects will be represented at the Network’s annual Sharing Event in June, so please join us to find out more about this work.

Small Grants 2021/22

In 2021, the CHASE Climate Justice Network launched its first small grants programme, offering several of grants of up to £600. These were for projects that addressed climate justice within and beyond the academic, built meaningful connections with those resisting environmental injustice, and considered intersectionality, diversity and care in relation to the climate crisis. Each project involved a doctoral or faculty researcher from a CHASE institution, but often involved collaboration and partnerships going far beyond this.

We received a number of high quality applications for this round, which were review by a panel comprising network members and invited reviewers. We were delighted to make the following awards:

In spring 2020, we held a special sharing event, Seeds Funds Sprouting, inviting grant recipients to present their experiences and finding. We will be publishing blog posts detailing each project over Summer 2022.

Details of our original call are still online for reference.