- The Office for Research & Economic Development offers training and resources for faculty research.
- The State-of-the-Art Research & Creativity Conference Grant Program provides UA faculty the opportunity to organize a distinctive conference on UA’s campus that explores and promotes new ideas and initiatives. Priority will be given to new conferences that are 1) designed to engage and involve both graduate and undergraduate students; 2) transformative and cross-disciplinary; and 3) seek to develop mutually beneficial research, scholarship and creative activity partnerships with other research universities, both domestic and international.
- The College of Education Grant Writing Fellows Program is a competitive fellowship program that was initiated to support COE faculty seeking external grants, with an emphasis on supporting those working toward tenure and promotion.
- The Culverhouse College of Business Grant-Writing Mini-Sabbatical is intended to support Culverhouse College of Business faculty in their efforts to develop and submit high-quality proposals to grant programs.
- The Office for Advancing Scholarly and Scientific Initiatives Services and Training (ASSIST) is committed to serving research faculty, staff and students at The University of Alabama to seek and secure external grant funding for research and other sponsored activities. The Research ASSIST Office focuses on the pre-award stage of extramural funding to produce high-quality grant proposals.
- The Research Grants Committee (RGC) reviews proposals for internal grants each year from UA full-time tenured, tenured track, clinical and clinical track faculty to receive funding from the Office for Research & Economic Development Small Grant Program in three areas:
- Area A – Physical and Biological Sciences, Mathematics and Engineering
- Area B – Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Area C – Arts and Humanities
- The SEC Faculty Travel Program is intended to enhance faculty collaboration that stimulates scholarly initiatives between SEC universities. It gives full-time faculty members from one SEC university the opportunity to travel to another SEC campus to exchange ideas, conduct collaborative research and develop grant proposals, performances and exhibits.
- The Summer Excellence in Research Program for Faculty (SEiR-F) promotes high-quality research efforts for Culverhouse College of Business faculty by providing funding for their summer research. Funds may be taken as a summer stipend and/or used to reduce the costs of the proposed research.