Research outcomes should have the potential to positively impact on practice. Service user involvement, when integral to the research process, provides a means of ensuring that research is as relevant and acceptable to the users of...
Research briefings
Securing funding for research is a competitive process which requires careful consideration as to the most appropriate funding body and well-constructed applications. It is therefore important to understand the culture of funding of...
The ability to engage in research and evidence-based practice is a competence that all occupational therapists are required to meet. Competence in the role of researcher can be seen to contribute to the profession, the individual...
Occupational therapy should be underpinned by evidence-based practice. This is reflected in the required competencies of occupational therapists stated within the Health and Care Professions Council standards of proficiency for...
This briefing has been produced to provide basic guidance on the use of third party copyright materials in published documents. It explains the circumstances in which permissions need to be cleared and the process to follow when doing so....
The College’s Specialist Sections are often approached to assist their members, BAOT members, students, researchers and other people in accessing occupational therapists as participants for a research project. This briefing, which...
Ethics approval is a fundamental component of research activity. Often there is a requirement to undergo ethical review by a variety of ethics approval bodies. This is determined, by factors such as the characteristics of the research...
This guidance was developed by the COT Research and Development Group in order to assist Specialist Sections who are interested in offering a research grant to their members. The guidance provides information on the process of developing...
Information about research projects, published research and research related information and guidance, is available from a multitude of sources. It can therefore be a complicated process to retrieve all the relevant information you want,...
