The phrase "chunk of research" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a large body of research or an individual research project. For example, "The professor conducted a chunk of research on the effects of climate change on crop production."
"On October 1, I have a member of staff who will be leaving to go down the road, taking a large chunk of research money with him.
Whitehall responded positively to an expensive chunk of research, the Manchester Independent Economic Review, which presents the case for exploiting potential in the area's closely knit urban sprawl as a way of boosting the entire British economy.
How did your lab get a big chunk of research money from the Department of Homeland Security? A. Since 9/11, people in Washington are worried about biological attacks as they weren't before, and so there is governmental money for researching new types of antibiotics and antivirals.
That three other directors are (according to the Chinese press) closely related to Mr Ren is also omitted.The report is a bit more forthcoming on the financial help Huawei gets from the state: plentiful cheap loans, some at interest rates of less than 1.7%, and a handy chunk of research grants.
These grants provide a big chunk of research money and immediate independence.
These flavour compounds are of critical importance in the final product and a large chunk of research goes into understanding how and why yeast produces what they do.
That which gets put off to tomorrow rarely gets done, yet the library administration, under its new plan, would move a huge chunk of its research collection off site, ostensibly available some other day, when a researcher makes a request.
Writing a successful grant application often requires preliminary data – in other words, you need to have already done a chunk of the research you're proposing to do.
So Xerox's chemists spent a hefty chunk of their research budget to learn to incorporate the toner waste into new toner.
In 'Nepotism and sexism in peer-review', Christine Wennerås and Agnes Wold from Göteborg University in Sweden set out to investigate why women were being awarded significant percentages of PhDs but a smaller chunk of postdocoral research posts and a much smaller still proportion of senior posts.
The project, a collaboration between Stanford University and the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) at Cambridge University in the UK, was spearheaded by Stanford geophysicist Dustin "Dusty" Schroeder, who believed so strongly in the value of the data stored on the films that he risked a healthy chunk of his research budget on a state-of-the-art digital film scanner.
