One more thing. The new "resourcefull" skill in the leadership tree. I assume its the skill that researcher has and it does nothing for the player. If thats not the case i apologize for a mistake. But if i am right and player isnt suposed to have acces to it (like hypercognition skill for alpha AI) you need to add ("npc_only") tag to the skill_data file like so.
aotd_resourceful,Resourcefull,25990,0,,,,,FALSE,FALSE,FALSE,"npc_only",graphics/icons/skills/surveying.png,
At least i think thats how it works. I did it to my mod file and after short testing it seems to work fine. (it doesnt appear in the skill tree and i think it works, but i havent got a chance to see it in game yet) But you are probably better off to test it since im not really a modder and i figured it out by copying the way vanilla hypercognition skill is implemented.