'as a conceptual framework' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you need to explain how something works, the basis of an argument, or the approach taken to an idea or solution. For example, "This article uses the four-step model as a conceptual framework to explore the challenges of living with a disability."
Misogyny as a conceptual framework through which to view the world was distinctly out of vogue.
Although the "laws of thought" studied in logic are not the empirical generalizations of a psychologist, they can serve as a conceptual framework for psychological theorizing.
In fact, Smith had already been considering the idea of fresco as a conceptual framework for a book; the notion of the underdrawing of the image being a presence beneath the surface, unseen yet present.
We used the work system model as a conceptual framework to classify emergent factors.
As a conceptual framework and operational model, ILC and the RAIN may be a promising option for the UWA.
The society for intangible needs is not presented as a prediction, but rather as a conceptual framework (e.g. [11]).
This article introduces the notion of convivial technology as a conceptual framework for technologies suitable for degrowth societies.
The synchronous hypothesis arose in the late Eighties as a conceptual framework for the computer-aided design of embedded systems.
Dynamical systems theory is used as a conceptual framework and comparisons are made between numerical and experimental results over a relatively wide range of parameters.
Consequently, the pro-poor and gender focus approaches of remittances to development, as well as its bottom-up approach is proposed as a conceptual framework for aid administration.
A core thread in using social vulnerability as a conceptual framework should be the specific context of the analysis, including a hazard's spatial distribution.
