whatever individuates your research

• whatever individuates your research
• i mean, people have talked about this before, so it's not like it's totally new or unprecedented, but no one's talked about it in exactly this way, or, while there's this thing that's been going on in the background of lots of research, no one has had a reason to bring it to the forefront of a research program, but i do 
• so, for example, while i realize that scholars have talked about how pollution impacts children's respiratory health, they've background that relationship for this reason ("because"); but, because i'm coming at it from this angle, i have this reason to talk about it explicitly in the foreground and here's why ("because)