The phrase "commenced research" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It means that someone has started or begun conducting research on a particular topic. Example: The scientist commenced research on a new treatment for cancer, spending countless hours in the laboratory and conducting experiments.
After studying with Annemarie von Gabain, Richard Hartmann, Ernst Kühnel and the brilliant Hans Heinrich Schaeder, she commenced research on Mamluk history for her Habilitationsschrift (postdoctoral thesis).
In 1979, Don Melrose commenced research at Sydney University in the Centre for Astrophysics.
He started his pathology training at Royal Free Hospital, London and then commenced research into normal and abnormal human placentation at St George's Hospital Medical School, London.
With a first degree from Edinburgh, he commenced research in Cambridge in 1946 under L. J. Mordell, who had just succeeded G. H. Hardy in the Sadleirian Chair of Pure Mathematics.
In the same year, the Australian Radio Research Board (ARRB) was established (White and Huxley 1975), following the British precedent (RRB-UK) which had just commenced research on the ionosphere, now a prestigious and autonomous discipline.
With this equipment he turned his attention to experimental physics, and commenced research in the Cavendish Laboratory under Sir J. J. Thomson.
Photographic evidence alone provides testimony to this retreat and the trend has become alarming enough that glaciologists have commenced researching the glaciers in the park more thoroughly, and have been analyzing the impact that reduced glacier ice may have on water supplies to streams and rivers.
The MWG commenced researching and compiling relevant evidence.
Before commencing research, permission for the researchers to work in each village was sought from the 'headman' of each village by the research assistant (RA), a twenty-nine year old Venda male, fluent in several languages including Venda and English and intimately familiar with local customs.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is commencing research on how technical institutions fit into this past.
This second article in a series primarily aimed at those commencing research, particularly in the area of ophthalmology and vision science, delineates the interrelated components that are required to complete a research project.
