How the College supports your R&D activity

The Research and Development Group staff provide a range of resources and services to support members in their R&D activity

This includes responding to member enquiries, a range of publications and briefings, presenting at member events, providing funding opportunities for professional development, and running events to develop research skills.

Setting standards

• All OT personnel will be research consumers
• Some will be participants in research led by others
• A few will be research leaders
• 1% of members to be research leaders
• 4.2% of graduating students to receive capability development funding to ensure an adequate PhD output
• Managers to allocate a minimum of one half-day a month for research or other quality-enhancing activity

Dedicated staffing

• 4 R&D Officers
• 3 librarians
• 2 Administrative staff
• Postgraduate student R&D Board representative

Publications

• Web-based briefings
• Publications (e.g. R&D strategies, BJOT outputs, OTN pieces, downloadable publications.)

Library and information services

• National collection of OT literature
• Thesis collection/loans
• Archive materials
• Library catalogue
• Literature searching
• hOT topics

Awards for education, research and continuing professional development

• Annual funding stream to support a range of member activities

United Kingdom Occupational Therapy Research Foundation (UKOTRF)

• Provides funding to support members’ research activity and research capacity building
• A range of awards available

Events to support research and development activity

• UKOTRF events to support research skills’ acquisition and evidence-based practice
• Annual conference workshops focussing on research skills acquisition and knowledge-sharing
• Contribution to members’ events focussing on research and development, research governance and ethics, and information management