Research Grants & Awards

Principal investigators MUST be affiliated with Northwestern University as a full-time faculty member, a graduate student or a postdoctoral fellow during the grant period. Co-investigators do not need to be affiliated with Northwestern University.

The DRRC funds empirical research on conflict, broadly construed. We are open to a variety of methods: experimental, field, modeling, etc. The grants committee looks for several features in a proposal:

• A clear and concise research question and how answering this research question will contribute to understanding conflict
• An outline of the hypotheses and what conflict theory has helped guide this particular research question. In the proposal, the logic and theory need to suggest that the hypotheses are reasonable
• A statement about the proposed source of data and how your proposed data will be manipulated, measured or assessed

• Likelihood of yielding publishable material
• Likelihood of generating outside funding
• Likelihood of investigators contributing to the DRRC’s activities

Funding is expected to range from $1,000 - $5,000. On average, we provide $2,500 per awarded grant.

What is likely to receive support:

• Funds for paying research participants
• Funds for travel necessary for data collection
• Remuneration for required support personnel (e.g., transcribers, research assistants, etc.)
• Essential research support (e.g., hardware, software, communications, supplies, travel, funds for conferences)

What will not receive support:

• Books
• Summer support
• Subsistence funding

Please submit your application via email to Stephanie Dixon.

The contents of your application should include:

• Grant Cover Sheet(PDF)
• Proposal (five-page limit) describing the research and justifying the request for funds. In the proposal, please include:
• A budget, including funding priorities, if appropriate
• A statement of current or applied-for support
• A Letter of support, written by a faculty co-author or advisor, is required from all graduate student and postdoctoral fellow applicants
• Curriculum vitae (maximum two pages) outlining the qualifications of the grant applicant to carry out the research

Referee procedure:

After at least two reviewers evaluate each proposal, the grant committee meets to finalize the decision. Applicants receive a decision letter with substantive feedback soon after the committee has met (usually within 14 days of the submission date).

The DRRC will be sponsoring the 2019 IACM Outstanding Dissertation Award. To learn more, please visit https://iafcm.org/index.php/award-nominations

The DRRC awarded the 2018 IACM Best Article or Book Chapter to Andrew Carton and Basima Tewfik for their article in Organization Science titled, “Perspective—A New Look at Conflict Management in Work Groups” and the 2018 AOM Best Student Paper Award to Siyu Yu for her paper, “All for One or Free-For-All? How, Why, and When Resource Scarcity Impacts Team Power Dynamics and Performance.”