What are all the possible prepositions after the sentence "to do research"?

If you'd use a preposition after the pattern "to do research...", what would be all the potential prepositions that could come after?

Edit: I'm speaking about researching something of a little value, not a social subject or a scientific matter or anything, more like a research (insert preposition here) new pc games or online products.

Solution 1:

The noun research is followed by the preposition in when the object of the preposition is a field of research, for example:

The professor was renowned for her research in biology.

Possible prepositions include (each of them have a different meaning):

• to do research in/into biology
• to do research for biology
• to do research before biology
• to do research about biology
• to do research throughout biology

These are just some common prepositions (they all have different meanings), a list of the top 50 can be viewed here.

With the edit

I'm speaking about researching something of a little value, not a social subject or a scientific matter or anything, more like a research (insert preposition here) new pc games or online products.

You could use:

• to do research in/into PC games
• to do research about PC games

Solution 2:

Here is a non-exhaustive list of prepositions that follow research, based on a Corpus of Contemporary American English search for "research" followed by a preposition. The general impression should be that, if you can think of a preposition, you can likely use it with research.

Here's a further breakdown using the top relevant result in each of these entries. Little surprise that the preposition's meaning highly influences the resulting collocation:

• research on his father's experience in the war (topic of research, here specific)

• research in research in immunology and cell therapy (topic of research, here field- or subject-level)

• research at the University of Manchester (place of research)

• research into your opponent (topic of research)

• research for clients / my book (audience or purpose of research)

• research by a private-sector guy in Great Britain (author)

• research with people that regularly eat hot dogs (study group or target)

• research of GASe stability in air / Vaghi and colleagues (topic of research OR authors of research)

This list could keep on going for a while. Other prepositions to denote the topic of research include about, regarding, over, and concerning. You'll want to look up each collocation yourself to get a better idea of whether it's appropriate for your context.