researchship

See also: research ship

English

WOTD – 10 November 2024

Etymology 1

From research +‎ -ship (suffix denoting a property or state of being).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈsɜːt͡ʃˌʃɪp/, /ˈɹiːsɜːt͡ʃ-/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹiˌsɜɹt͡ʃˌʃɪp/, /ɹiˈsɜɹt͡ʃ-/, /ɹə-/
• Hyphenation: re‧search‧ship

Noun

researchship (countable and uncountable, plural researchships)

1. (countable) A paid position doing research, typically for a university or non-profit organization.
   • 1958 February 26, Nathan S[chellenberg] Kline, witness, “Mental Health Research: Statement of Dr. Nathan S. Kline”, in Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations for 1959: Hearings before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session: […] Statements of Members of Congress, Organizations and Interested Individuals […], Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 131:

     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, […]

   • 1977 spring, “Facts on Funding”, in Terry Dufrane Scully, editor, International Educational and Cultural Exchange, volume XII, number 4, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of State, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 17, column 1:

     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.

   • 1987 July 29 (date written), Peter J. Sherman, “[Appendix A] Construction R&D Pays Off! A Technical Report”, in Research and Competitiveness in the Construction Industry: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session […] (No. 21), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, published 1987, →OCLC, 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 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.

   • 2009, Jane Matthiesen, Mario Binder, “Getting Started”, in How To Survive Your Doctorate: What Others Don’t Tell You (Open UP Study Skills), Maidenhead, Berkshire: Open University Press, McGraw-Hill Education, →ISBN, page 15:

     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.

   • 2010, Monika Nalepa, “Acknowledgements”, in Skeletons in the Closet: Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page xvi:

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

   • 2015, Stephanie Koscak, “Hobsbawm, Eric John Ernest (1917–2012)”, in Kenneth E. Hendrickson III, editor, The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 434, column 1:

     [Eric] 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, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, part I (Reminiscences and Comparisons), 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).

   • 2018, Bayard [H.] Brattstrom, “There are Two Owls on Campus”, in Lizard Tales: People and Events in the Life of a Naturalist, Parker, Colo.: Outskirts Press, →ISBN, part VI (New York), page 111:

     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.

2. (uncountable) The practice or quality of conducting research.
   • 1947 May 3, Srinivasa Varadachariar [i.e., Srinivas Varadachariar], chairman, [et al.], “Agriculture Department”, in Report of the Central Pay Commission, Delhi: Manager of Publications, →OCLC, part III (Headquarters Offices of the Government of India), page 261:

     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; […]

   • 1980, Joel Spring, “The Production of Knowledge and the Control of Education”, in Educating the Worker-citizen: The Social, Economic, and Political Foundations of Education, New York, N.Y.; London: Longman, →ISBN, page 136:

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

   • 2017, Victoria Martin, “Conclusion: Looking Ahead”, in Transdisciplinarity Revealed: What Librarians Need to Know, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Libraries Unlimited, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, pages 155–156:

     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.

Translations

paid position doing research

Finnish: tutkijan paikka Macedonian: please add this translation if you can

practice or quality of conducting research

Finnish: tutkimus (fi) Macedonian: please add this translation if you can

See also

• scholarship

 

Etymology 2

See research ship.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˌsɜːt͡ʃˈʃɪp/, /ˌɹiːsɜːt͡ʃ-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɹiˌsɜɹt͡ʃˈʃɪp/, /ɹiˌsɜɹt͡ʃ-/, /ɹə-/

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• Rhymes: -ɪp
• Hyphenation: re‧search‧ship

Noun

researchship (plural researchships)

1. Alternative form of research ship
   • 1958, Japanese Contribution to the International Geophysical Year 1957/8, Tokyo: National Committee of the International Geophysical Year, Science Council of Japan, →OCLC, 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, Soviet Union: Daily Report, volume 71, [Reston, Va.]: Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1990, Walter Lenz, Margaret Deacon, editors, Ocean Sciences: Their History and Relation to Man: Proceedings of the 4th International Congress on the History of Oceanography, Hamburg, 23.–29. 9, 1987 (Deutsche hydrographische Zeitschrift [German Hydrographic Journal]; no. 22), Hamburg: Bundesamt für Seeschiffahrt und Hydrographie [Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency], →OCLC, page 545:

     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".