research program
Organized investigation effort
A research program is an organized, sustained effort to investigate a set of related questions or problems within a field.
Unlike a single study, a research program coordinates multiple projects over time toward broader goals: The university's cancer research program has been running for two decades.
In philosophy of science, the term describes a theoretical framework that guides scientific inquiry, as in Lakatos's concept of competing research programs.
- studyDeliberate learning effort
- grantBestow or award money
- fundingSupplying monetary resources
- laboratoryFacility for scientific investigation
- investigationFormal examination of facts
hypothesis · experiment · control group · pilot study · academic · scientist · proposal · data · methodology · dissertation · grant proposal · findings · clinical · trial · human subjects · data collection · breakthrough · publication
- educationeducation, school, schools, teachers, students
- campstent, tents, camp, shelters, campsite
- school programsAP, honors, scholarship, AP classes, honors classes
- graduate schoolslaw school, med school, medical school, business school, dental school
- zoo programsbehind the scenes, guided tours, animal training, veterinary care, captive breeding
- post-baccalaureategrad school prep, teacher certification, teaching certificate, second degree
research programidle speculation
gut feeling · dilettantism · whim · trial and error · intuition
research programdogma
Unchallengeable official beliefs
blind faith · received wisdom · superstition · ideology · indoctrination
research programcover-up
Hiding wrongdoing from public
disinformation campaign · censorship · obfuscation · book burning · obscurantism
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