Student Research Grants 2025-26
 

The Saida Waheed Gender Initiative is offering small grants for student-led research and senior projects that use gender and/or sexuality as a major analytical tool in their work. Undergraduate students from all departments/schools at LUMS can apply.

Following thematic areas are just a suggestion, students can decide on their own themes:

- Technology and gender
- Gender in media and literature
- Culture, power, and inequality
- Gender and science
- Violence and trauma
- Social, institutional, and legal discourses of gender and sexuality
- Cross-cultural, transnational, and historical perspective on sex and gender
- Identity, embodiment, and bodies
- Gender and social media
- Movements and activism
- Masculinities
- Gender, class, and work
- Gender, sexuality and health

The grant is capped at a maximum of PKR 20,000.

Grantees will be required to present their work in progress as part of SWGI’s calendar of events in Spring 2026 and write a 1,000-word piece. All work will be published on the SWGI website, and two best papers will be featured in the Gender Bi-Annual.

Submission Guidelines: Interested students must submit a brief proposal and budget by filling this form by 8th October. You will need to login through your LUMS email ID to access the form. The email subject should say Student Grants | SWGI Address any queries or concerns to: gender@lums.edu.pk.

Deadline: 8th October 2025