The phrase "academic focusing on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a specific area of study or research that an academic or scholar is concentrating on.
Example: "The academic focusing on climate change has published several influential papers in the field."
Alternatives: "scholar concentrating on" or "researcher specializing in".
Dr Terri Apter, a psychologist and academic focusing on family relationships, tells me this is common for children whose parents have divorced, and particularly girls, who often devote themselves to bucking up their mothers in times of crisis.
His scathing report found that most schools of education were engaged in a "pursuit of irrelevance" and had "not kept pace with changing demographics, technology, global competition, and pressures to raise student achievement". Most university ed schools, he determined, were overly academic, focusing on education theory and policy, not teaching.
About a decade later, he is one of several academics focusing on preschool depression.
The meeting, attended by researchers and academics, focused on 18 recommendations for making the agency's decision-making less opaque.
Another set, from 2013, by a group of Norwegian academics focused on the civic engagement of 21 million Facebook members on four continents.
Customized workshops have benefitted the likes of policymakers, economic developers, consultants and academics focused on improving country or company export competitiveness.
Other research, this time by American academics, focused on how men and women differ in responding to feedback, which provides another way to gain insight into this area.
The proposed children's court was among several recommendations Brown brought to the U.N. as head of the Global Citizenship Commission, a group of political leaders and academics focused on human rights.
There is already an emerging academic focus on applying modern digital technology to cities' physical systems.
Students are inspired to learn a language by the idea of speaking, and an academic focus on writing and assessments is off-putting".
I studied Global and Public Health Sciences as an undergraduate at Cornell with an academic focus on health policy and infectious disease biology.
