'small scale research' is correct and can be used in written English.
For example, "This team of researchers conducted small scale research to understand the effects of the new drug."
The Zero G Corporation can fly simple experiments for just a few thousand dollars, and NASA is funding small scale research and education under its Flight Opportunities programme https://flightopportunities.nasa.gov/.Passenger prices are only a little higher.
This small scale research project serves two purposes.
This paper discusses the findings of a small scale research project which explored the possibility of adopting eco-design techniques.
In spite of the fact that some students did not watch the videos, the overall purpose of this small scale research was achieved.
The costs of delivering IPTc presented here are based on a well funded, small scale research study.
Both the breadth and depth of social care research need to be improved; Clark says that, "In adult social care [compared to healthcare] we tend to see a smaller pool of researchers looking to do smaller scale research projects, with far fewer disciplines involved".
Subsequent interest in the model and its findings has led to a number of smaller scale research studies which draw on the longitudinal aspect of the design, with further expressions of interest in possible future transnational studies.
Giving civil servants opportunities to contribute to small-scale research, improving practitioners' capability for scientific reasoning, and increasing researchers' competence to increase the societal relevance of their research, can be made part of their performance, monitored by their manager and guided by senior academics.
The grant-making structure of their field and of the institutions in which they were trained means that small-scale research grants of less than $50,000 — the kind that could support new researchers with untested, independent ideas — are limited.
In December 1940, Japan's leading nuclear scientist, Nishina Yoshio, undertook a small-scale research effort supported by the armed forces.
Some small-scale research done recently with local young people shows that this sense of rejection and being 'second best' is still a major issue locally.
