Research Development Resources
Access central research support services and information and guides to craft successful proposals.
Institutional Resources
Learn more about research at Northeastern and find support services and resources across the University.
Proposal Development Resources
Northeastern’s Research Development Resource Repository contains research training materials, funding agency-specific guidelines, proposal development guides and templates, and information about university programs and facilities that users may copy and paste into proposals as appropriate.
New Faculty Checklist
Establish your personal research development plan at Northeastern. Also, learn how Northeastern’s Research Development (RD) team focuses on helping faculty connect with funders, develop and edit proposals, and navigate institutional structures.
Internal Grants
Northeastern University’s Colleges and Office of the Provost supports interdisciplinary research through the TIER Awards programs. These awards seek to stimulate exciting new directions in interdisciplinary research and increase the competitiveness of external proposals.
Impact Engines
A new model for 21st-century problem-solving. Impact Engines galvanize and organize interdisciplinary learning, research, and partnerships around solving a challenge or set of challenges, with the goal of maximum impact. Impact Engines span disciplines, colleges, campuses, and industry sectors, connecting diverse communities of problem-solvers around creating measurable change.
Experiential Innovation (NABC)
Northeastern’s Experiential Innovation program introduces a framework for presenting research projects, with the goal of increasing interdisciplinary collaboration and proposal successes rates and fostering high-impact research. The Experiential Innovation program helps research teams identify important opportunities, convert those opportunities into successful new proposals, and produce sustainable research products or innovations.
Runway to Broader Impacts
Northeastern faculty are invited to participate in a peer learning community focused on developing and sustaining research partnerships with non-academic partners for impactful and socially responsible research. Participation is open to faculty in all colleges and at any stage in their careers. Our goal is to share information about resources at Northeastern that can help you navigate extramural partnerships and to provide a forum for interdisciplinary knowledge sharing.
Nature Masterclasses
Northeastern University has an institutional subscription to Nature Masterclasses. For all Northeastern students, faculty, and staff, this subscription grants you access to all currently available online courses on the Nature Masterclasses platform. Please make the most of our university’s subscription! See detailed information on this page about course topics and how to access the content.
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