The phrase "active scholar" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is currently engaged in scholarly activities, such as research, teaching, or publishing.
Example: "As an active scholar in the field of environmental science, she regularly contributes to academic journals and attends conferences."
Alternatives: "engaged researcher" or "participating academic".
After retiring, she continued to lead seminars and remained an active scholar until her death.
Active scholar of Mesoamerican archeology, Professor of Anthropology at Lehman College, passionate advocate in the community for historic preservation.
Warren continued to be an active scholar, but she was largely apolitical, and certainly not a public figure outside the academy.
Peace studies at Bradford is an enduring legacy of a remarkable person and, after he retired, James remained an active scholar and lecturer as well as being a strong supporter of peace groups.
Throughout the 1980s, Cox remained an active scholar, conducting research and publishing essays that examined the demise of Reconstruction and the nation's failure to achieve substantive freedom for former slaves.
Other notable works include Essays on Bentham (1982)—during his closing years as an active scholar, Hart devoted much of his time to editing and interpreting Bentham and Essays in Jurisprudence and Philosophy (1983).
At his best, Murphy assays Inquisition history both by smoothly synthesizing secondary sources and by describing his encounters with active scholars in the field.
If we want good teaching in our schools — and this is as true at the university level as it is in elementary and secondary schools — we need to design a system in which teachers are encouraged, and expected, to be active scholars, not just in their subjects but also in pedagogy.
Zhu Xi was an active scholar-intellectual who held discussions and disputes with other scholars, both in correspondence and in person.
Many teaching institutions, even those with heavy teaching loads, want to have active scholars on the faculty" (p. 101).
We assume that a search term or phrase that returns a high yield of materials produced by known, active scholars in the field will likely be more effective in uncovering similar types of research produced by other authors with a smaller body of work.
