More about what research means in different disciplines

Doc Brown, of Back to the Future: a researcher whose significance transcends disciplinary boundaries.

There's a really good (and freely available) project that Dr Lisa Lucas, Prof. Mick Healey, Prof. Alan Jenkins, and Dr. Chris Short conducted for the Higher Education Academy, which explores, I quote,

the experiences and perceptions of academics by locating them within specific institutional/departmental and disciplinary cultures and exploring how this may impact on their conceptions of 'research', 'teaching' and the relationships between them.

You can download the report from the HEA website.