researchship

English

Etymology

research +‎ -ship

Noun

researchship (countable and uncountable, plural researchships)

(countable) A paid position doing research, typically for a university or nonprofit organization.
- 1987, Peter J. Sherman, edited by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology, Research and Competitiveness in the Construction Industry, page 231:
  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 of the "Big-5" Japanese general contractors— Ohbayashi Corporation.
- 2009, Jane Matthiesen, ‎Mario Binder, How To Survive Your Doctorate, page 15:
  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.
- 2010, Monika Nalepa, Skeletons in the Closet, page xvi:
  The visiting researchship there helped me prepare for fieldwork in East Central Europe.
- 2014, Kenneth E. Hendrickson, The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History, page 434:
  Hobsbawm earned his degree in 1939 and accepted a student researchship to study agrarian problems in French North Africa.
- 2016, Nicholas Kaldor, “Personal Recollections on Michał Kalecki”, in Mario Sebastiani, editor, Kalecki's Relevance Today, page 3:
  I took my degree in Economics in 1930, and I was then awarded a student researchship at the London School of Economics (LSE).
(uncountable) The quality or practice of conducting research.
- 1939, Pamphlet - South African Biological Society, page 11:
  In addition to the purely scientific researchship, Dr. Roberts has endeavoured in numerous ways to encourage Nature Study and Wild Life Protection, and generally foster the subject of biology for the common weal of S. Africa.
- 1980, Joel H. Spring, Educating the Worker-citizen, page 136:
  In addition, government sponsorship of educational researchship has resulted in an expansion of the actual number of educational researchers.
- 2017, Victoria Martin, Transdisciplinarity Revealed: What Librarians Need to Know, page 156:
  […] their status and profile beyond competent "helpers" into trusted partners in collaborative "researchship" (Maguire 2012), this can only be achieved if scholars and librarians work together as intellectual equals.
(countable) Alternative form of research ship
- 1958, Nihon Gakujutsu Kaigi. Kokusai Chikyŭ Kansokunen Kenkyū Renraku Iinkai, Japanese Contribution to the International Geophysical Year 1957/8, page 148:
  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.
- 1971, Daily Report: Soviet Union - Volume 71, Issues 21-30:
  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.
- 1973, Fabian Research Series - Issues 309-335, page 13:
  The US researchship Glomar Challenge has conducted successful drilling experiments at a depth of 5,000 metres.
- 1990, Walter Lenz, ‎Margaret Deacon, Ocean Sciences, page 545:
  This brings to my mind the important statement which Henry 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",