(marketing) The systematic collection and evaluation of data regarding customers' preferences for actual and potential products and services.

(architecture) A field of research and analysis in architecture that uses studies and details from nature or other sources to produce or create a new structure. It is used in design and architecture to imitate structures and improve them giving them a certain amount of art feeling. Structural research can be also called structural art or structural design.

(US, politics, informal) Research into one's opponent's family, friends, and past, which aims to uncover activities or interests which embarrass or discredit them.

(sociology) Research where the researcher themselves are an agent of social action.

plural of senior researcher

plural of research professor

A full professor who is exclusively or mainly engaged in research, and who has few or no teaching obligations.

An academic title for a researcher usually of comparable standing to an associate professor.

plural of scientific research

plural of empirical research