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.

DRRC funds empirical research on conflict, broadly construed.  We will consider application that examine inter group and intra group processes related to conflict and collaboration.  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 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 to present research that was funded by DRRC)

What will not receive support:

• Books
• Summer support
• Subsistence funding

Please submit your application via email to DRRC@kellogg.northwestern.edu.

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
• An acknowledgement of support, a brief paragraph 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).

DRRC is the sponsor of the 2021 IACM Outstanding Dissertation. The International Association for Conflict Management honors the author of an outstanding doctoral dissertation that significantly advances the study of conflict management and negotiation. Winner of this year's award will be announced at the IACM annual conference in July 2021. For more information, view the IACM call for awards page.