The phrase "embark on research" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to suggest that someone is beginning or starting a research project. For example, "John decided to embark on research into the effects of global warming on the polar bear population."
It has been 10 years ago to the month since I first tried to embark on research into the National Socialist history of the Vienna Philharmonic, which culminated this week in revelations about the famous orchestra's darker secrets.
The predicament is twofold: too little money and time available for clinicians who want to do research, and a younger generation of doctors that is reluctant to embark on research at all.
While a priori the interest lies in finding new empirical laws, or even more fundamental theories, concerning how any natural or artificial complex systems works, it implies that we do not embark on research areas such as genomics, cosmology, or geophysics - which are data-intensive as well, but already have their specialized publication outlets.
Authors that aim for academic recognition may embark on research that does not necessarily improve existing knowledge.
He said Chiron took a significant risk in embarking on research to discover the virus and deserved to share in the proceeds from drugs developed by others.
Feeling that economic science had virtually nothing useful to say about real-world issues of global wealth and poverty, he embarked on research that led to the foundation of the philosophical school known as critical realism.
Turning to architectural journalism, Nairn was the author of the famous polemic Outrage (an outspoken report on unhindered urban sprawl from Southampton to Carlisle, published in 1955) and continued to use his pilot's licence for some years, frequently setting off with the in-house photographer, embarking on research from the air.
She is now embarking on research to determine if tDCS can make a meditative state deeper, easier to achieve, and longer-lasting — an attractive prospect for those who, like me, find meditation too boring and frustrating to practice with any regularity.
When Ricky Green of the Utah Jazz scored the 5 millionth N.B.A. point in January 1988, the league, whose records date back to the Basketball Association of America's founding in 1946, embarked on research to find out who scored the first points and discovered Schectman's layup.
In the later part of her career, she embarked on research to verify the existence of life after death, conducting, with others, thousands of interviews with people who recounted near-death experiences, particularly of those declared clinically dead by medical authorities but later revived.
