Research & Innovation
Support for Researchers
Office of Research Services
Providing administrative and support services for Dalhousie's research community. Learn how we can help you maximize research funding, manage your research and conduct research responsibly.
Dal Innovates
Empowering students and faculty to be innovators, creators and entrepreneurs ready to make an impact on local and global challenges.
Office of Commercialization & Industry Engagement
Securing partnerships between the university’s research community and industry — collaborations that address real-world problems and train the next generation of innovators.
Annual Report
Our research is thriving with inclusive impact. Read the 2023-24 Annual Report on Research & Innovation to see how Dal researchers are transforming lives.
Dalhousie University is located in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq.
We are all Treaty people.
Local Advantage. Regional Leadership. Global Impact.
Leading research focused on complex global issues.
Dalhousie University is a vibrant hub with regional, national and global impact, recognized for the outstanding quality of its research and innovation, and a drive for discovery that results in more than $200 million in research funding each year.
As Atlantic Canada's primary research-intensive university and a member of the U15 Group of Canadian Universities, we bring scholars together from across disciplines into six Strategic Research Clusters to address some of the world’s most difficult questions and complex challenges.
Inclusive Impact
Our Strategic Research Direction, 'Inclusive Impact,' provides a roadmap to support the development of our research, scholarship, and creative activity.
Research Strengths
Our work is focused around six Strategic Research Clusters that align our academic strengths to best address key global challenges.
Researcher profile
Dr. Saurabh Chitnis receives the 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for exploring the unexplored elements in the periodic table.
Institutes and Centres
Here our researchers mobilize communities, influence national issues and engage in global thinking within our impressive network of internationally renowned research institutes and centres.