'foundation of research' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the general research that has been conducted on a particular topic, which serves as the point of departure for further study. For example, "My team's work is built on the foundation of research conducted by previous investigators in this field."
Edward Palmer, the CTW's first Director of Research and the man Cooney credited with building the CTW's foundation of research, was one of the few academics in the late 1960s researching children's television.
Set in 1930's and 40's Egypt and Ethiopia, Mr. Bull's three volumes are built on an ample foundation of research into the times and places he evokes, and he has populated his pages with vivid characters.
And always there is her well-laid foundation of research: watch how she locates Williams's compositional stream of masses and never-ending push for a papal commission within Vatican II-era American Catholic political agitation, reminding us that Williams worked with Dorothy Day, cofounder of the Catholic Worker movement.
The foundation of research into remaining oil at the fault edges is to examine the microscopic combinations, linkages, and associated micro-amplitude structural features of faults.
These findings build upon an emerging foundation of research conducted in early childhood education settings (e.g., Brodin and Renblad 2015; Bullough et al. 2014; Sofou and Tsafos 2009; Wood 2004).
In addition, we believe that the instructional mandates Head Start teachers receive, such as to comply with specified teaching routines, curricula, or lesson plans, were created by drawing upon a solid foundation of research in early childhood learning and development.
Actually good policy proposals are bloody hard to demolish because they come built on solid foundations of research, consultation and data, not the straw of slogans and glib half-baked ideology.
Like many areas of biology, at the start of the 21st Century, the foundations of research on aging are quite different from those assumed by the dominant paradigm of the previous century.
Hence, the foundation of translational research, where multiple technical research areas collide, will be even more meaningful in the future.
The test of replicability, as it's known, is the foundation of modern research.
This is the major new development that is the foundation of cancer research today.
