Research is how you unlock new skills and abilities to improve your ability to play!

You can get to your Research menu by tapping Research from the Campus Directory (main menu), or by tapping on your Lecture Hall!

There are a number of different categories of Research all effecting different parts of gameplay. 
You can read about these below:

Wonderous Features  - this tree contains special game mechanics - 2nd builder slot, extra march slot and will include other special or additional mechanic bonuses here

Summonology - bonuses for your troops and where to unlock higher tier troops to summon

Academy Management - City bonus upgrades in this tree - bonuses to help construction, research summoning speed and other bonuses to help with your city's progression

Tenebral Hunting - this tree are bonuses to help you hunt monsters, also where to unlock higher level monsters to hit.

Resource Gathering - similar to the Hunting tree above, this tree is to help your bonuses and higher levels for gathering resource nodes

Elementalism - bonuses towards PvE and PvP actions for each land type (biome). General tip - most players decide on 1 biome to focus on while also slowly working towards the other 2 biomes. 

House Unity - House mechanic and game concept in general still needs to be expanded on. We will share more news on Houses in the near future 

Concentration - Hero level, tier cap upgrades and other hero related bonuses are in this tree

Greater than the Sum - another house related research tree - we will have more news to share on Houses overall in the near future

Wild Focus - specific tree for 'Wild' type heroes (ie: Gwen)