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.
COVID-19 Updates
Dalhousie is committed to the health and safety of everyone who works, studies, and lives at our university.
Our plans for the fall are informed by input from our COVID-19 Science Advisory Council, which includes several of Dalhousie’s leading experts in disease research and epidemiology.
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 $214 million in research funding each year.
As Atlantic Canada's primary research-intensive university and a member of the U15 Group of Canadian Universities, our world-leading researchers are driven by five Signature Research Clusters that inform their research.
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.
Signature research clusters
Our research efforts focus on five Signature Research Clusters, and are informed by two cross-cutting themes, Big Data and Innovation & Entrepreneurship.
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.
Research priorities
Our signature research clusters are grounded in the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
Our performance
From world-leading ocean research, to our trailblazing work in vaccinology, you'll read about our global leaders in research and the signature clusters that guide their direction in the 2021 Annual Report.
Our goals are ambitious, as we seek to leverage our core strengths, partner globally and solve some of the most complex issues of our time. Learn how our Strategic Direction guides our research.