'conceptual groundwork' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the process of forming the ideas and principles which underlie an understanding of something. For example, "We must first lay down a strong conceptual groundwork before we can build an effective strategy."
This study laid the conceptual groundwork for using BN spatial models to identify streams that are not only vulnerable to urbanization, but are also located in catchments classified with a high probability of development suitability and future urbanization.
Our mission is to lay the conceptual groundwork for, and contribute core components to, a product development (PD) infrastructure that will help companies succeed in the services marketplace we envision.
This breakthrough discovery provided the conceptual groundwork for the elucidation of RNA interference biochemical pathways.
To assess the descriptive and explanatory arguments involved in the convergence thesis, some conceptual groundwork is called for.
"I think it's incredible," says Pendry, who has laid much of the conceptual groundwork for cloaking in the past few years.
For biology, and specifically evolutionary theory, to be able to take over successfully where the philosophers have allegedly failed to lay the conceptual groundwork for a just and comfortable world, it has to be shown how the biological perspective could contribute to the analysis of relations between groups.
The only painter in the founding group, Klein was a highly influential artist whose radical techniques and conceptual gestures laid the groundwork for much of the art of the 1960s and '70s.
Anthropology offers conceptual tools and an ethical groundwork for understanding the world as it is and as it is becoming.
Overall, this conceptual model aims to help lay the groundwork and explore future research topics and curricula for the fashion industry, particularly with a consideration of 3DP technology integration that will soon saturate throughout the current supply chain.
Even more body-conscious than Mendieta was the dyed-in-the-wool Conceptual artist Vito Acconci, whose "Conversions II: Insistence, Adaptation, Groundwork, Display" (1971), documents a willful feminization of himself by concealing his genitals between his legs, the better to experience a genderless identity.
Beyond the identified impacts and challenges, this proposed conceptual model ultimately aims to help lay the groundwork, explore future research topics and curricula for the fashion field integrating DDM, focusing on the 3DP technology.
