The phrase "as a topic of study" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a specific subject or area that is being examined or researched academically.
Example: "The impact of climate change is increasingly recognized as a topic of study in environmental science."
Alternatives: "as a field of research" or "as an area of inquiry".
It did this by reversing my sense of Islam as a topic of study: rather abruptly, Islam seemed to be scrutinizing me.
As a topic of study, there are plenty of unresolved issues -- how much, say, Post-Minimalism was an American movement -- for scholars to cheerfully argue about.
National archives on the census The education team at the National Archives focus on the census as a topic of study.
In the interest of fairness, I have to report that, as a student at Princeton in the mid-70's, I encountered Shapero's Symphony for Classical Orchestra in B-flat major as a topic of study in not one, but two courses, one taught by J. K. Randall and one by Milton Babbitt.
Online trust is growing in importance as a topic of study and its influence on Internet marketing strategies is increasing.
Pipelines and workflows are staples of bioinformatics analysis, enabling the reproducible and efficient transformation of data into results, yet these tools have only recently received significant attention as a topic of study in their own right.
The idea that evolutionary thinking can inform thought and research on education is doubly relevant to EvoS as education is not only a topic of study in academia but is also the vehicle by which academia progresses.
The taxonomy of this genus continues to be a topic of study as new species are named or long-standing ones reassigned to other genera.
In a conversation with The Economist, Ms Cabane talks about quantifying charm, Oprah's magnetism and the reason why charisma has so long been ignored as a topic of scientific study (hint: it has to do with Hitler).
But Olivia Fox Cabane, an executive charisma coach for Fortune 500 companies, insists that everyone can have it and regrets that charisma has so long been ignored as a topic of scientific study That boring English gameA correspondent reporting from some corner of a foreign field reflects on the recent growth of cricket in France.
