Meaning of researchship | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A paid position doing research, typically for a university or non-profit organization.
   countable
2. The practice or quality of conducting research.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“I think, personally, that the greatest inducement to keep people in the field would be to set up a life researchship, very much like the judiciary is in this country, setting a minimal age at, perhaps, 35, and selecting, even if it is only a few individuals, people who have demonstrated their research ability and are rewarded by this with a fairly substantial income in the perhaps $20,000 to $25,000 bracket, with the freedom to do the research that they feel is important, […]”

“Each year the Cultural Learning Institute offers a limited number of senior fellowships and visiting researchships to advanced scholars who come to the Center to conduct research and develop programs within the four project areas of the Institute.”

“As a 1986 civil engineering master's graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, I was privileged to spend the past 12 months on a researchship in Japan where I worked with one of the "Big-5" Japanese general contractors – Ohbayashi Corporation. During the researchship, considerable time was spent both in the R&D [research and development] laboratory and field where various construction robots were being developed and extensively used.”

“Since most doctoral courses accept applications on an ongoing basis throughout the year, there are no application deadlines as such. However, where enrolment is timed with scholarship or funding applications, or where the Ph.D. is offered as part of a research council researchship, deadlines may well exist.”

“The visiting researchship there helped me prepare for fieldwork in East Central Europe.”

“[Eric] Hobsbawm earned his degree in 1939 and accepted a student researchship to study agrarian problems in French North Africa.”

“I took my degree in Economics in 1930, and I was then awarded a student researchship at the London School of Economics (LSE).”

“The next year she applied for graduate work in microbiology/molecular genetics, hoping for some graduate support, at Yale, Harvard, MIT, University of Wisconsin, and Cal. Tech. She got accepted at all, with scholar or researchships, except Cal. Tech., which then didn't take females. She chose Yale.”

“He has strongly urged […] that reserved posts should be properly grouped into the following four categories:— (1) Heads of Divisions, i.e., those entrusted with researchship and research organisation; […]”

“In addition, government sponsorship of educational researchship has resulted in an expansion of the actual number of educational researchers.”

“While transdiciplinarity offers librarians an opportunity to elevate their status and profile beyond competent "helpers" into trusted partners in collaborative "researchship"[…], this can only be achieved if scholars and librarians work together as intellectual equals.”

“Eight stations were occupied by the researchship Ryofu-Maru along the 30° N-line which crossed the Japan Trench at the vicinity of Ramapo Deep, during the period from May 12 to June 20.”

“On the new scientific researchship everything is aimed at subjecting the sea to the will of man and making ships even more reliable and comfortable, and more inhabitable, as the specialists say.”

“This brings to my mind the important statement which Henry [Bryant] Bigelow made when he was asked by Rockefeller foundation authorities, "What would you like to have first, a building or a researchship", and his prompt answer was "a ship".”

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