Research Support Services, in conjunction with the Graduate School and DCU Invent, provide a professional advice and support to staff and researchers at DCU with a range of activities associated with internal, external research funding and international collaborations.

The services provided include:

• Provision of information on internal and external funding opportunities;
• Support and advice with preparing grant applications;
• Advice and assistance with costing and pricing research proposals;
• Approval and submission of grant applications;
• Co-ordination of contract review and other legal requirements;
• Institutional research contract approval
• Review and/or provision of Collaborative Research Agreements for collaborative projects with Industrial or Academic partners.
• Establishing inter-institutional arrangements for the transfer of funds to research collaborators at other institutions
• Advice and support throughout the duration of a grant;
• Provision of ethical approval process through the university Research Ethics Committee
• Provision of management information on research;
• Provision of subsidized DCU laboratory Notebooks
• Audit Liaison.
• Point of contact for external organisations seeking access to DCU Research.

The Research and Innovation Support team is organised by funding agency responsibility, further details are available online.