"older research" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing two pieces of research, with one of them being older than the other. For example, "This study refutes some of the conclusions made in older research on the topic."
A few more recent controlled studies — with better methodology than the older research — suggest that the answer is no.
Dr. Bohr, who is undertaking a longitudinal study of families with satellite babies, cautions that the older research was shaped by Western values and expectations.
"These findings implicate co-infection by IIV and Nosema with honey bee colony decline, giving credence to older research pointing to IIV, interacting with Nosema and mites, as probable cause of bee losses in the USA, Europe and Asia," the researchers write in their study published in the journal PLoSOne.
The paper builds on older research that claims that families face a trade-off between the quantity of kids they have and the "quality" of each kid -- an awkward term that refers to things like how much education the child receives, whether they are employed when they grow up, and whether they end up with a criminal record.
The older research has also largely been relegated to bacteria.
Teaching fellows program (GK-12) is growing rapidly while the older research fellows program (GRF) shrinks.
We found that institutions tend to fall into one of three categories: Prestige-seeking (tended to be older, research-intensive universities) Reputation-seeking (tended to be newer, teaching-led universities) A combination "I am very comfortable with the term [prestige].
Some researchers, mostly from the manufacturing and supply chain management background, would arguably see it as nothing more than an evolution of older researches on "make-or-buy" (Busi and McIvor, 2008).
Ten months from the beginning of the project, researchers checked 133 of their old research subjects who had stuck with the program.
My 10-year-old research assistant insisted that I go first.
Last April, Microsoft publicly unveiled the five-year-old research project, called "Singularity".
