"update our understanding" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it whenever you want to describe the process of increasing, revising, or reevaluating your current knowledge on a particular subject. For example, "This new research has allowed us to update our understanding of the human genome."
The findings verify the co-control strategy and update our understanding of new technologies implementation.
"We need to update our understanding of the destiny of our human-machine civilization based on what science now tells us," he added.
Recently we conducted a study of workplaces and workers in Europe, North America, and Asia, using surveys, ethnographic research, observations, and interviews to update our understanding.
She has now curated "My Dear Mr. Hopper: The Story Starts Here," an exhibition at the Edward Hopper House Art Center that argues that the letters' contents should significantly update our understanding of the artist's work.
They constitute the first phase in a large ongoing project at the Center for Industrial Performance at MIT to update our understanding of comparative industrial relations and human resource policies.
Further, we are key players in an effort to transform and update our understanding of land surface air temperatures through the International Surface Temperature Initiative [described in a recent paper, "Guiding the creation of a comprehensive surface temperature resource for twenty-first-century climate science".
Now, quickly accumulated experimental evidence in this field can help update our understandings for the regulation of Bcl-2 network.
The new findings are updating our understanding of female pleasure and the mind-body connection in women on many levels.
Since then we have not really updated our understanding of privacy, despite the advent of the Internet, fiber-optic cables and smartphones.
Updating our understanding of the organization, Berger argues, can give us insight into the strength of its leadership, the motivations of its recruits, and the next stages of its development, all of which will be difficult to grasp as long as U.S. policies "remain fixated on the brand name and organization that carried out the 9/11 attacks".
Profiling of Sauvignon Blanc with whole genome microarrays [ 77] putatively identified forty-two carotenoid biosynthesis genes that updated our understanding of one pathway responsible for flavor and aroma production in grapes.
