'work on research' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it whenever you want to indicate that someone is engaged in research or studying something in depth. For example: "My friend is working on research for his doctoral dissertation."
An assistant professor of finance at Drexel University's LeBow College of Business, he needed one summer to be in Boston; Sofia, Bulgaria Londonn; Zurich and Moscoww to work on research projects and present papers.
Microsoft researchers agreed to partner with Beijing's University of Aeronautics & Astronautics to work on research projects geared to Beijing's 2008 "Digital Olympics," a geekfest coinciding with the arrival of the world's athletes.
He had been one of 20 top Iraqi scientists selected by the foundation to work on research "that addresses the needs and priorities of the Iraqi community".
At his office, a rather cramped room off one of the older, Pugin-styled corridors of Westminster, just five staff work on research and administration for him.
Shelter continues to do very good work, on research as well as helping individual people.
I also work on research for our Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA Cancer Programm.
We have opportunities for graduate students to work on research projects.
Research Assistants (RA) work on research projects under the supervision of a faculty member.
Student teams under faculty supervision work on research and implementationnof a large project in HCI.
acquire the background needed to work on research problems currently under study at Cornell and elsewhere.
Student teams under faculty supervision work on research and implementation of a large project in AI.
