I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a management/research/sales etc team
▪ The design team has come up with a few ideas.
a research centre
▪ the new research centre at King's College Hospital
a research council
▪ the Medical Research Council
a research degree (=a higher degree for which you do your own research)
a research grant
▪ He received a research grant to study the effect of pollution on the environment.
a research library (=one that is good for doing research)
▪ The university has one of the best research libraries in the world.
a research project
▪ The aim of this research project is to study modern food habits.
a research proposal
▪ Applicants should submit a short research proposal on their chosen topic.
a research student (=doing research in a university)
▪ When I returned to Cambridge, I continued this work with two of my research students.
a research study
▪ Research studies have found that young people are drinking no more than they were 20 years ago.
a research/rescue/health etc worker
▪ Rescue workers searched the rubble all night looking for survivors.
academic research (=study of a subject, in order to discover new facts or test new ideas)
▪ Many academic research projects take years to complete.
basic research
▪ We need basic research into the causes of mental illness.
carry out research
▪ I was in Italy carrying out research for my book.
carry out research
▪ I was in Italy carrying out research for my book.
conduct research
▪ He’s conducting educational research at the University of Washington.
financial/educational/research etc institution
▪ the government and other political institutions
for business/research etc purposes
▪ About one in five of all trips are made for business purposes.
historical evidence/research etc
in-depth study/research/analysis etc
▪ an in-depth study of patients’ needs
longitudinal study/survey/research etc
▪ a longitudinal study of unemployed workers
market research
▪ They had to conduct market research, then advertise the product.
operational research
pioneering work/research/efforts etc
▪ the pioneering work of NASA scientists
research and development
research laboratory
▪ a research laboratory
research station
▪ an Antarctic research station
space research
▪ The institute is a world leader in space research.
studies/evidence/research etc shows
▪ Several studies have shown that aggressive toys lead to bad behaviour.
undertake research/a study
▪ Students may undertake full-time supervised research leading to the award of a Ph.D.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
basic
▪ Microelectronics; and Basic research Actions.
▪ The issue of conducting basic research at Carville remained unresolved.
▪ One needs the basic skills of research, including the ability to use the full resources of a research collection.
▪ Taylor offered his group a rare opportunity: the freedom to do basic research for a handsome corporate salary.
▪ Our mission is three-fold: To undertake basic research to advance knowledge for its own sake.
▪ It does, however, present a number of operational difficulties that require basic research before it can be widely used.
▪ This need not apply to basic research and design.
▪ How does basic scientific research fare in the face of so much application interest?
further
▪ Illmensee and Hoppe concluded their astonishing report in Cell with recommendations for further research.
▪ But further empirical research has revealed considerable diversity in the roles of particular political structures.
▪ The range of possible interpretations of these ratios is quite wide, however, and could provide material for further research.
▪ They published a list of eleven questions, each describing an area in which they felt the need for further research.
▪ The second-level decision required is whether or not to authorize further research or to abandon the project at decision node 2b.
▪ It has also suggested many lines of further research.
▪ These questions in turn suggest further lines of research that deserve serious attention by historians of both science and art.
▪ At postgraduate level the Bucher and Fraser Scholarships provide opportunities for further research or for advanced studies in composition or performance.
historical
▪ Many staff have interests in the application of social science theories and methods in historical research.
▪ While based upon an extensive data base and significant historical research, this Rand report has been criticized as being too pessimistic.
▪ Labour history too has developed into a recognizable historical research area and women's history is following suit.
▪ This is an extraordinary situation, perhaps unique in the entire spectrum of modern historical research.
▪ Such catalogues include accounts of relevant historical research, and may cause new original historical work to be done.
▪ Data archives store, catalogue, index and disseminate the data for further contemporary or historical research.
▪ Over the past 30 years, musicological, historical and biographical research have all led towards a new Mozart.
▪ He wants my library toi stop my historical research.
major
▪ Agriculture, as the industry producing plants and animals as good or raw materials, is a major sector for research.
▪ In the case of survey research, that title should express the major research question.
▪ You should then aim at getting into one of the major research companies.
▪ I would suggest that ten or twenty questions would be satisfactory to cover the subject area framed by the major research question.
▪ When completed, the project will have brought into being a major research resource for the academic community.
▪ A major research hypothesis is a restatement of the major research question.
▪ Finniston converted it into a major international research organisation that still exists today.
▪ Discussion Endothelin-1 has become a major research topic since its discovery and characterisation as a potent vasoconstrictor.
medical
▪ But they're worth doing: the program has suggested whole new directions for medical research.
▪ Data for nutritional care audits are derived from written documentation in the medical research and dietetic card file.
▪ You can help by joining the Research Defence Society and supporting our work to safeguard the future of biological and medical research.
▪ Most medical research probably will be spared, Vest said.
▪ Firstly, many junior doctors have little understanding of what medical research is all about.
▪ It could potentially improve care, assist in medical research and help in detecting patterns of insurance fraud.
▪ Medical practice and medical research Ethics affect both medical practice and research, but research usually falls under the closest scrutiny.
▪ It doesn't just have Peavey - it has freight yards, shopping malls and medical research.
recent
▪ Articles by well-known political scientists discuss the central concepts and recent empirical research in many important subfields.
▪ The major thrust of this recent research has been in four directions.
▪ We leave the more recent research which has challenged their findings to the following chapter.
▪ They are, according to recent research, bringing up the next generation of offenders, truants, divorcees and generally inadequate people.
▪ Welfare and social services Recent research has demonstrated that people with severe mental handicaps can undertake productive work, with adequate support.
▪ The description of speech and language difficulties which draws on recent psycholinguistic research will be referred to as the process of assessment.
▪ Some recent research has given us synthetic fats which are not utilized by the body as an energy store.
scientific
▪ The machine, which comes in seven standard configurations, was originally developed for in-house scientific research.
▪ In its spare time, Teraflops will work on civilian projects and scientific research.
▪ We are left in no doubt that fund-raising, and knowing the right people, are essential skills in scientific research.
▪ The Renaissance did not neglect scientific research, but it by no means gave it top priority.
▪ How does basic scientific research fare in the face of so much application interest?
▪ This anticipatory power of the imagination has been utilized in many sports, and scientific research has established its effectiveness for athletes.
▪ Our image information is an under-used resource of enormous potential value for scientific research, public enquiries, and commercial development.
▪ The success of a scientific research establishment is directly related to the number of useful ideas that are generated by its people.
social
▪ Arrangements can be made to provide basic and more advanced tuition in the use of computers in legal and social research.
▪ Inc., a social research firm for Domini.
▪ They are free to ignore social research, and often do.
▪ A third reason has to do with the non-experimental character of most social research.
▪ This has moulded a dominant conception of what social research should be.
▪ In any event, the idea that Lazarsfeld had discovered a ubiquitous method of social research has to fall by the wayside.
▪ The Environment and Planning Committee will continue to be responsible for the development of social science research in transport.
■ NOUN
field
▪ Where quantitative analysis requires mathematical and computer skills, area studies require language training and extensive field research.
▪ Extensive field research can mean long periods living under adverse conditions to which the researcher is unaccustomed.
▪ Moreover, funding organizations may be less inclined to support projects that envision long periods of field research.
▪ His contribution lay firstly in his intensive field research, quite novel by the standards of his time.
▪ Secondly, this list of headings conveys a quite false impression of how field research is conducted.
▪ The approach to pro-active searches is well established and involves a combination of desk and field research.
▪ What is the role of field research within the market research process? 4.
▪ The achievement of these aims imposed certain restrictions on the methods used during this stage of the field research.
finding
▪ Staff and researchers are encouraged to present research findings to conferences both at a national and international level.
▪ Research and literature being published now are based on these new techniques and provide us with greater confidence in research findings.
▪ Some of these fears were allayed by scientific research findings, such as laboratory experiments with rats.
▪ These projects encourage a questioning attitude, and the application of nursing research findings to patient care by the ward team.
▪ The process of reviewing research and research findings will eventually lead you back to the same references.
▪ The research findings will provide practical assistance for teachers in the running of schools.
▪ For example, research findings suggest that children of families under stress are more vulnerable to accidents, such as ingestion of poisons.
group
▪ The writers had developed bibliometric indicators for analysing research group performance within two large faculties of the University.
▪ But two years later, an independent medical research group confirmed the link.
▪ The chapters range from general reviews to those with a heavy research group bias.
▪ All research groups will continue to be based in their present locations.
▪ Three research groups, employing three different methods, are now on the case.
▪ One in four is preparing to pay between £50 and £100 on Christmas presents for each child, according to research group Nielsen.
▪ Our example was prepared with the help of Reward, the pay research group.
institute
▪ Opportunities exist in University departments and research institutes, in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries and medicine.
▪ There are also posts in various environment-oriented research institutes and other organisations for which a knowledge of meteorology is advantageous.
▪ I would have been working in some library or some research institute in the Army.
▪ The application of the wife of a politburo member to study at a research institute would never have been easy to reject.
▪ He will not in the long run profit from arrangements that turn the surviving research institutes into training grounds for emigrant specialists.
▪ Her work experience has been various, including that of Director of an environmental research institute.
▪ The mechanics lost out, and the place became a research institute funded by subscribers who attended lectures.
institution
▪ This is normal procedure inmost research institutions.
▪ They recognize that co-operation between industry and research institutions is beneficial in raising productivity and enhancing competitiveness.
▪ It is rapidly becoming one of those elite research institutions some academics are looking for to improve the quality of research.
▪ His sights also are set on putting Clark Atlanta University on the global map as a research institution.
▪ The objective is to re-position the University as a strong teaching and research institution.
▪ Each country runs a national network that links to a host computer in a research institution that acts as a national hub.
▪ The university and other local research institutions have been a breeding ground for many of the new companies.
▪ These networks connect universities and research institutions at data transmission speeds ranging from 64 kilobits per second to 2 megabits per second.
laboratory
▪ A panel of 10 scientists drawn form universities and private research laboratories will advise Bienenstock.
▪ That sort of thing is annoying, but the main product of a research laboratory is ideas.
▪ Tests on the items at the Oxford research laboratory for art and archaeology revealed them to be modern.
▪ We are really a basic research laboratory in a clinical department.
▪ We are housed in a modern, purpose-designed building, with extensive teaching and research laboratories and computing facilities.
▪ The utilization of consumer electronics-related ReD results, from government research laboratories, is one of the highest in the country.
▪ We've had it into the major research laboratories around the world who specialise in security.
▪ But his research laboratory colleague Tom Hedman can-thanks to generous people who donate their bodies to science.
market
▪ There are special collections of country information, newspaper cuttings, market research reports and theses.
▪ After much testing and market research, the chain may adapt its food to local tastes.
▪ What is market research, and why does it play an important role in the marketing function?
▪ What major factors are relevant to the design and construction of a market research questionnaire? 6.
▪ Shaw hires mostly female salespeople because market research suggests that carpet shoppers are primarily women who prefer to buy from other women.
▪ This type of survey is part of market research.
▪ A final point of note here is that the purpose of market research in consumer and industrial markets is the same.
programme
▪ Modifications or additions to the protective belt of a research programme must be independently testable.
▪ The department has a vigorous research programme.
▪ A two-year research programme is currently in progress which is examining the outcomes of these courses.
▪ The Social Science Research Council initiated a research programme.
▪ The Committee is currently reviewing its policy on research grants in order to produce a better defined and more coherent research programme.
▪ There were also a number of minor studies in connection with the main research programme.
▪ The Northern Ireland Panel was dissolved in December 1984 after making arrangements for the evaluation and dissemination phase of the research programme.
▪ The Bureau's comparative research programme comprises a continuing analysis of model properties and forecast performance.
project
▪ A number of research projects have now examined this question, and a number of conclusions have begun to emerge.
▪ A calendar of events is a time schedule for carrying out the required tasks of the research project.
▪ The Board decided to sponsor a research project by Mellanby to ascertain the true incidence, given the controversy that was developing.
▪ Long-term research projects within companies will most likely be abandoned altogether or sharply reduced.
▪ Fourth-year students carry out an original research project under staff supervision.
▪ Deciding on optimal resource allocations for different research projects is a serious issue.
▪ Usually I have at least one long-range research project going.
▪ If she is successful, final approval for the research project will be delayed or even rescinded.
station
▪ These pilot projects represent in principle a transition phase between research station and the real world.
▪ It was founded in 1937 as a private, non-profit archaeological research station.
▪ Part of the money will also be used to refurbish the Signy research station.
▪ After their divorce Jane worked on, helped by students at the growing research station.
student
▪ The point appears to come through even more strongly in the role of the postgraduate student, particularly the research student.
▪ A department-wide graduate seminar is held during each Michaelmas and Hilary Term for the benefit of research students.
▪ To see research students in that way is educationally shortsighted.
▪ The analysis and discussion are, therefore, based on the completed questionnaires of 139 research students.
▪ All research students are required to take the courses in research methods and skills which are specified by their departments.
▪ Table 6.2 shows the distribution of research students across the different departments.
▪ The admission of research students is delegated by the Physical Sciences Board to the head of department.
study
▪ Jean Packman concludes by showing that new policy embodied in future legislation owes something to child care research studies in recent years.
▪ It can be found in news reports and research studies.
▪ Every research study needs to be assessed on the criterion of whether it measures up to its own stated objectives.
▪ It became obvious from a number of research studies that employees enjoyed keeping score.
▪ To help tackle the problem, the park authority is carrying out a research study.
▪ The first of these criticisms was by fur the strongest made by solicitors interviewed for the research study by Baldwin and Hill.
▪ A second report on the same research study gives further information about clients' use of the fund.
▪ Two patients in each treatment arm refused to accept the treatment assigned or participate in the research study or both.
team
▪ Or at any rate, he is with one of the research teams working on the man project.
▪ Unlike most members of his research team, Cantor was not a nocturnal creature.
▪ The research team monitored 61 catches at 18 North Sea ports over a two-week period.
▪ Initially, two assemblers who were good friends were chosen by the research team.
▪ This model has been developed and validated over the past four years by a research team at Loughborough University through extensive experimentation.
▪ The Clarins research team successfully created two ultra effective products.
▪ They also liaised with each other, their supervisor and the research team.
▪ Building such research teams is essential.
worker
▪ The Avon Papers are now available for study by research workers on application to the University Library.
▪ Take care that your teaching is not guided by your preferences as a research worker.
▪ There are plenty of good recent reviews aimed at research workers covering at least some of the issues I was starting to address.
▪ Each research worker took part in a different sphere ... The published records about Banbury were analysed.
▪ And without the new grant for golden hellos the World would have lost its research workers.
▪ First, research workers must be absolutely sure they know what the statistics are about.
▪ At this stage, then, the general position has been stated as to how research workers should approach their task.
▪ Unlike Fleming, Florey found the atmosphere of a London teaching hospital uncongenial and the conflicts between clinicians and research workers discouraging.
■ VERB
carry
▪ Doctors at the National Epilepsy centre at the Park hospital in Oxford carry out research into what can trigger epileptic fits.
▪ This in turn will generate an online archive for those keen to carry out research.
▪ In the interim, they agreed to carry out further research into land-based disposal.
▪ Teams from Teesside, Durham and Newcastle universities are carrying out the research.
▪ This report contains three keynote speeches on commissioning, carrying out and disseminating research.
▪ This was considered generally impractical and in view of the particular difficulties of carrying out social research in Belfast, probably unattainable.
▪ She urged health authorities to carry out urgent research into the problem.
▪ On several occasions, however, delegates have faced obstruction and harassment in carrying out their research.
conduct
▪ One participant had conducted some research into small businesses in West Belfast for a research report.
▪ Secondly, this form of research endeavour can all too easily produce a state of alienation in those conducting the research.
▪ The area utilized to conduct this type of research and evaluation must have a low radio noise interference level.
▪ Stoves conduct exhaustive in-depth research to find out exactly what customers want from their cookers.
▪ We conduct extensive consumer research in which a large number of women are interviewed about their preferences.
▪ She conducted research in schools investigating the assumption of strength and competence, and the assumption of ineptitude and incompetence.
fund
▪ There is increasing emphasis in the development of innovative methodologies in order to secure funding for research.
▪ The first is the significant drop in nationally funded research grants that has occurred over the past 10 to 15 years.
▪ It also contains a coupon that readers can send to Specter to show their support for increased funding for spinal cord research.
▪ He not only developed sociological research but encouraged a culture of funded research throughout the institute.
▪ Since funding existed, research was generated: tons of it.
▪ We will bring in much tighter labelling requirements for all foods, and make funding available for food research and scientific establishments.
▪ However, most foundations and governmental funding agencies will supply a list of recently funded research projects.
show
▪ Financial difficulties and childcare / domestic responsibilities, have been shown in other research on participation to be fundamental barriers.
▪ It also provides a way of showing economic research in action by sketching the ongoing debate.
▪ Chapter 13 examines 4 projects in detail, to show how research is carried out in practice, from start to finish.
▪ Mental repetition has been shown by research on basketball players to be as effective as going through the actions.
support
▪ How can university personnel be involved to support research carried out in schools by teachers?
▪ Since then, Quaker has continued to support university-based research into the substance.
▪ The Faculty has a number of scholarships which are used mostly to support research students.
▪ An especially large debt is owed to the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College for supporting my research at a critical time.
▪ Furthermore these are claims that have actually been supported by empirical sociolinguistic research.
▪ Congress's armed services committee recently allocated US$180 million to support research work.
▪ The existing pool offered too little genetic diversity to support energetic research, they said.
undertake
▪ It included assumptions about the purposes for which universities are encouraged to teach and undertake research.
▪ Alison Petch has undertaken research in a range of social policy areas, in both local authority and university settings.
▪ These surveys are invariably undertaken by specialist research organizations, since the construction and administration of questionnaires is a highly skilled operation.
▪ Our mission is three-fold: To undertake basic research to advance knowledge for its own sake.
▪ Firstly, undertaking the research represented one of the only positive steps available to respond to such an increased demand.
▪ Nevertheless, many agrochemical companies are undertaking extensive research programmes on biological control.
▪ It is the only institute in Britain with a specific remit to undertake research on land use.
▪ Its main object is to undertake research into survey methods and problems.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He hopes that his book will inspire more research on alcoholism.
▪ Many of the questions can be answered without carrying out any new research.
▪ More research is needed into the ways in which this virus is spread.
▪ Recent research has shown that human language is much older than we previously thought.
▪ She's doing research into the connection between crime and poverty.
▪ The book draws on Gardner's own research.
▪ There is no scientific research to back up the company's claims.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Analytical work carried out as part of environmental research often falls into this category.
▪ Current research, however, indicates that the cleavage cut through class lines.
▪ It defines producer services, and by reviewing existing research produces a better understanding of their role and growth.
▪ Many science courses involve elements of library research as well as its laboratory equivalent.
▪ Much research is carried out using secondary or library data.
▪ Shaw hires mostly female salespeople because market research suggests that carpet shoppers are primarily women who prefer to buy from other women.
▪ There are also posts in various environment-oriented research institutes and other organisations for which a knowledge of meteorology is advantageous.
II.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
carefully
▪ Such representations have to be very carefully researched, ensuring that as far as possible every detail is correct.
▪ Such models have to be carefully researched and done accurately to scale.
▪ This is a relatively short broadcast time, but programmes are carefully researched and prepared by volunteers from the neighbourhood.
▪ Each holiday will be carefully researched and put together in conjunction with a reputable tour operator.
▪ So a twice-weekly soap opera such as EastEnders, which started in February 1985, was as carefully researched as any commercial programme.
thoroughly
▪ The Gillmans have produced a respectful and thoroughly researched account of Mallory's life.
▪ He thoroughly researched many business opportunities.
▪ Once you've thoroughly researched and analysed the facts, they should speak for themselves.
▪ Each will have a detailed invented past, thoroughly researched and crafted.
well
▪ The prevalence of depression among the elderly in institutions has been less well researched.
▪ In general, novels of this type are well researched and exhibit a relatively high quality of writing.
▪ Encyclopedias are generally well researched and reliable, and the answer is probably correct.
▪ The problems faced by dual-career families have been well researched since the Rapoports coined the phrase in 1969.
▪ The cultural impact of this has been well researched and extensively commented upon elsewhere.
▪ This one is well researched, but I question whether it adds much to the sum total of our knowledge about Wellington.
■ NOUN
book
▪ She has spent her free time researching the book and is now looking for a publisher.
▪ I came to research a book about my great-aunt Teresita, the Saint of Cabora.
▪ He'd met Romano de Sciorto through researching the book he'd been planning on the history of the islands.
history
▪ Dreger now spends his free time volunteering in the Chorus office and researching the Chorus' history for the anniversary celebration.
▪ She looks forward, in retirement, to researching local history.
▪ Indeed, when Sophia persists in researching family history on her own, she uncovers much more than she had bargained for.
subject
▪ Although I began to research the subject, I never wrote that book.
▪ We, therefore, have an excellent way of researching any subject within the hospitality industry.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Doctors researching into the causes of the disease believe they may have found a cure.
▪ He spent four years researching material for the play.
▪ It is important to research the market fully before offering a new product for sale.
▪ Joslin's legal documents were praised for being well researched.
▪ Vargas began researching his family's history 12 years ago.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At one time we had about eighty people here who did nothing but research into various family genealogies.
▪ He researched alone at night, and by day discussed his findings with no one.
▪ Scientific Officer required to assist with a project researching intracellular events in scrapie-infected cells.
▪ That was 10 years ago and since then I've researched and developed that simple dieting principle.
▪ The couple still maintain close links with local schools, where they spend hours researching, sketching and absorbing jokes.
▪ They want to research the features and the prices and they want to get the information from some one they can trust.