Research

Equipping communities with research skills to improve their lives

Equipping communities with research skills to improve their lives

The new MicroResearch Institute at ÃÀÅ®×ö°® is a proven, community‑driven research model that empowers local people — doctors, nurses, midwives, community health workers, teachers, police and students — to investigate and solve the health and public safety challenges they understand better than anyone.

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Andrew Riley
Friday, March 13, 2026
Dal research teams are receiving more than $7.3M in Canada Foundation for Innovation support to expand labs and tools driving breakthroughs in water resilience, ocean science, marine tracking, and digital stewardship of Canada’s past
Jocelyn Adams Moss
Thursday, March 26, 2026
In this episode of Sciographies, we talk to Dr. Leanne Stevens, an educator and university teaching fellow in ÃÀÅ®×ö°®â€™s Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, and associate dean, academic in the Faculty of Science.
Kenneth Conrad
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Dr. Kimberley Hall’s Killam fellowship will accelerate her collaboration with NRC partners as they work to advance quantum hardware and strengthen Canada’s future secure‑tech capabilities.

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Rebecca Rawcliffe
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Pedestrian safety, paperless workplaces and growing Nova Scotian exports — learn how a new Innovation Technology course at Dal is helping students take on real-world challenges with compelling digital solutions.
Alison Auld
Monday, February 3, 2020
Much more oxygen than previously thought is transported deep into the ocean interior through a 'trap door" in the Labrador Sea that Dal researchers say could be closing as a result of climate change.
Alyson Kelvin and Jason Kindrachuk
Friday, January 31, 2020
Social media has allowed researchers around the world to collaborate and coordinate their efforts to fight the outbreak and contain its spread, writes ÃÀÅ®×ö°® professor Dr. Alyson Kelvin.
Michele Charlton
Monday, January 27, 2020
ÃÀÅ®×ö°® is home to four of the newest recipients of funding from the Government of Canada for their innovative health research.
Trudi Smith, with files from Olga Koubrak
Thursday, January 16, 2020
In December, the Canadian-Japanese Scholarly Exchange on the Law of the Sea brought together experts from both countries for the first time to exchange views on international ocean governance.