Travel and Learning Award for Anna High
Borrin Foundation Travel and Learning Award
Anna’s plan
Anna will be using the grant to visit both Chicago and Oxford to further her networks and expertise in the fields of mindfulness as legal pedagogy and mindfulness as a professional practice skill for lawyers.
About Anna
Anna High is a socio-legal scholar who has adopted a “law in action” approach to three main areas of interest: feminist theory/sexual violence, evidence law, and Chinese law. She has also published in the area of legal education/pedagogy. She is co-director of the Otago Centre for Law and Society. In 2022, Anna was awarded the Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Research Excellence Award for Humanities.
Anna is a leading advocate for mindfulness in legal education and practice in Aotearoa. She is founder and co-director of the Aotearoa New Zealand Mindfulness in Law Society, a local chapter of the US-based non-profit Mindfulness in Law Society. She is also a recipient of a prestigious Ako Aotearoa national teaching award, in recognition of the proven impact of her mindful pedagogy on future lawyers.
Grant Amount
$10,000 in 2026 to support travel
“I am excited to deepen my established connections with those at the vanguard of mindfulness in law in the US and to undertake further vocational training at the Uk College of Mindfulness Meditation. These opportunities will extend my ability to offer mindfulness training to students and practitioners of law here in Aotearoa.”