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Applications are now open for the 2026–27 round of the Student-Staff Partnership Grants (SSPG).

This is an opportunity for students and staff to co-lead a project and receive funding to bring their ideas to life.  

• Application Form: SSPG 26-27 Application Form 
• Application Deadline: Tuesday 28th July 2026 (Included)
• Online Q&A Session: Wednesday 15th July 2026 14:00-15:00, register here.

Whether you already have a project idea or are looking to collaborate with staff and students to develop one, this scheme offers a fantastic platform to make a real impact. Projects can focus on addressing challenges related to student experience or exploring new and creative ideas that reflect the values of your own course. 

Many past participants have used the opportunity to produce meaningful outputs, build networks, apply awards, and even lay the groundwork for academic publications or professional work.

 Below are a few examples of past projects for your reference: 

•  A visual resource to assist communication with people with intellectual disability within a medical setting 
• Lab Sustainability at CSG  Lab Sustainability at City St George's | Review 360  
• Primary Care Seminar Series: The Future of Primary Care
• Mind the Gap: a handbook of clinical signs on black and brown skin - available here.

We’d love to see your ideas and enthusiasm in this round. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to StudentPartnership@sgul.ac.uk if you have any questions or would like support with your application.

You can also find further information online (external link).

Company: Stephenson Harwood 
Location: Your university campus  
Number of hours: 15 hours to be completed over 4-month period (October – January) 
Salary: £14.80 per hour 
Start date: October 
Training date: 8th September 

Stephenson Harwood is an international law firm. They represent listed and private companies, institutions and individuals to help them succeed in an ever-changing world.

Stephenson Harwood focus on five core sectors: energy transition and infrastructure, life sciences and healthcare, private capital and funds, technology, and transportation and trade. 

Stephenson Harwood combine their legal capabilities and expertise between their eight offices in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. They also have close ties with high quality law firms around the world to blend local knowledge for clients in over 100 countries. 

What is the role? 
 

• As a campus Brand Ambassador, you’ll be the face of Stephenson Harwood at your university.
• You’ll be responsible for using your university connections to promote the Stephenson Harwood brand and opportunities across all corners of campus. 
• You will be involved in promoting the training contract and vacation schemes to increasing the number of applications for each opportunity. 
• Your role will include collaborating with law societies, careers and academic departments. 
• In this flexible, paid role, your tasks could include lecture shout outs, social media promotion, society collaboration, face-to-face event attendance, networking and wider promotion at your university such as working with the careers department and other academic departments.
• This is a highly creative role, so we are looking forward to hearing your promotional ideas for the campaign! 

You can also find further information online (external link).

Deloitte: ‘Women who Audit’ Webinar 

Company:?Deloitte

Event:?Deloitte: ‘Women who Audit’

Location:?Online Webinar

Date:?13/08/2026 3pm – 4:30pm

Application Deadline:?10/08/2026

Accepted degrees: Open to all degree backgrounds

Are you a university student heading into your final year of university and interested in audit?

Deloitte are running a fantastic online webinar where you’ll hear from current female employees, get a behind-the-scenes look at life at Deloitte, and receive invaluable tips for applying to their Graduate Programmes.

You can also find further information online (external link).

To what extent are ESG standards and regulations becoming more fragmented and how should lawyers support their clients in responding to this shift?
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) issues are a focus for many of our clients, whether they operate in the public, private, or third sectors. Each of our clients puts a different lens on ESG issues, and their motivations for seeking to improve their ESG performance are often complex and constantly evolving. Whether driven by the climate and biodiversity crisis; global political events; or local social movements, each client has a different ESG ‘fingerprint’, unique to them.

This is the fifth year of the student ESG Essay Competition. Previous questions have explored global supply chains, the role of lawyers in tackling biodiversity loss and the balance between additional legislation and new technology in climate change mitigation and adaptation. This year, we turn to the growing complexity of the regulatory environment, asking you to consider how clients and their lawyers should navigate an increasingly fragmented ESG landscape.

We expect that the strongest essays will engage with one or more of the different sectors that we focus on (find out more here - https://gowlingwlg.com/en/sectors/global )  and the issues that our clients, and those like them, face in those sectors. We don’t expect you to address every potential ESG issue, so please focus on the aspects that interest you the most. Whilst we are interested to read your ideas about the role of lawyers working in private practice law firms, do think about the roles that in-house lawyers play also.

What can you win?

The essay that captures our imagination the most will win a week’s paid internship (with accommodation if required) in our London office, working with our team of expert lawyers on a variety of ESG issues.

During your week’s internship, you’ll meet clients, undertake research, draft advice, and work closely with us to find out what it’s like advising clients on emerging legislation and ESG best practices. You’ll gain a great understanding of what life as a lawyer at Gowling WLG is like.

We will also host an Open Day for our top-placed entrants. We’ll invite you to our London office where you will get to meet some of our lawyers who advise on ESG matters; and you’ll meet some of our trainee solicitors and hear from our Early Talent team. We will also invite every applicant to a virtual open event to hear more about the firm and share some application tips.

Who can apply?

You can apply if you are studying at University; or if you’re a graduate. It doesn’t matter if you have a law, or non-law background. Unfortunately, we cannot cover the costs of international travel to attend the internship or Open Day and you must have the right to work in the UK.

Essays should be no more than 750 words (excluding references - please note that we have no preference for referencing style) and the deadline for entries is 6pm on Friday 18th September 2026. Please submit your entries to: ESGEssay@uk.gowlingwlg.com We would like to receive your essays in .pdf format and when submitting your entry, please include your name, where you’re studying (or studied) and details of the subject. Rest assured that our judges will not have access to that information when reading your essay.

The Inn offers a number of scholarships and prizes to support Members undertaking pupillage.

Senior Scholarships

Our most prestigious scholarships. Four scholarships, each with a value of £5,000, are awarded to pupils of exceptional merit.

Ann Goddard Scholarships

Pupils intending to build a practice at the publicly funded Bar can apply for these means tested scholarships, with over £80,000, awarded each year.

The Ede & Ravenscroft Prize

A wig and gown is awarded to a pupil who has embodied the Inn’s purpose, vision and values as a student Member.

The James Hunt Prize

The pupil with the best advocacy performance at the final stage of the Pupil Advocacy Course is awarded the James Hunt Prize.

As we move into the fifth year of this successful scheme, COMBAR is delighted to announce that its mentoring scheme for applicants from groups who are under-represented at the Bar (and the Commercial Bar in particular) is now open for applications for the 2026 – 2027 cycle.  The scheme is an important part of COMBAR’s commitment to improving access and diversity in the legal profession.  More than 870 mentees have benefited from the scheme to date.

The scheme pairs successful eligible candidates with practitioners from COMBAR member sets for a series of one-to-one mentoring sessions.  Mentees and their mentors are also invited to a pupillage interview and application workshop and social event, which is planned for 13 January 2027.  An equivalent event for this year’s scheme was held in January 2026 at Gray’s Inn, with an excellent turn out from mentees attending in person and remotely, and a keynote introductory speech by Mr Justice Henshaw, the Judge in Charge of the Commercial Court.

In order to ensure that as diverse a pool of potential applicants is reached as possible, COMBAR intends to advertise the scheme through the careers departments of all English and Welsh universities with a law department, together with a number of universities in Scotland and Ireland, third sector organisations such as HerBar, FreeBar, InterLaw, the Social Mobility Foundation and Sutton Trust.  COMBAR is also pleased to have renewed its arrangement with Legal Cheek, which remains the official partner for the scheme.

Applicants who are considered to have realistic prospects of obtaining a pupillage at the Commercial Bar will be assessed by reference to their need for mentoring and their potential to pursue a career at the Bar.  A deliberate decision has been taken to give equal weighting to both of these criteria to help ensure that the scheme reaches talented applicants from the most under-represented communities who would benefit most from mentoring and guidance.

Applicants wishing to participate in the scheme are requested to download and complete the application form which can be found here. Completed application forms must be saved as a PDF with the naming convention “First Name – Surname” and emailed to: MentoringURG@combar.com by Friday 16 October 2026.  Applicants will be informed as to whether or not they have been accepted onto the scheme within November 2026.  Due to the number of applicants applying for the scheme, it will unfortunately not be possible to give individual feedback as to why an application may have been unsuccessful, though unsuccessful applicants are welcome to re-apply in subsequent years.

Full details of the scheme can be found at the Scheme Guidelines which can be found here.  Any other questions should be directed to the following email address: MentoringURG@combar.com 

You can also find further information online (external link).