Download the Funded Projects Full List for February 2026 (PDF, 188KB)
Previous recipients of the Early Researcher Prize (pre-registration) include:
- Rick Adams (2020): “ ‘We’re in it together.’ The role of a food pantry as a rights-based community-centred intervention in a marginalised setting at a time of austerity: a stakeholder perspective”.
- Laura Johnson (2021): “An exploration of occupational therapists’ understanding of ‘The dark side of occupation’ and their perspectives on the implications for practice. A qualitative investigation”.
- Felicity Murray (2022) “Enabling person-centered wellbeing in the context of environmentally sustainable occupational therapy: a survey study of occupational therapy student attitudes and preparedness.”
- Samantha Bowden (2023): “An occupational perspective on the lived experience of menstruation for autistic adults”
- Jason Chun Hin Sze (2024): “Characteristics of occupational therapy interventions to promote healthy ageing: a scoping review”
- Laura Brolly (2025): “The Dark Side of Occupation: Substance Use as Survival in Homeless Lives”.
Previous recipients of the Early Researcher Award (Post-registration) include:
- Terri Grant (2022): “Simulating Practice Education – what should we simulate?”
- Laura Rossiter (2021): “Exploring the impact of cancer related fatigue on occupational performance and engagement”.
- Beverley Turtle (2018): "Reliability and responsiveness of outcome measures in a stroke clinical trial".
- Becky Field (2017): "Identifying influences on take-up of a community occupational therapy intervention for people with dementia and their family carers"
- Natalie Jones (2016): "What are the experiences of stroke survivors with managing eating in the long-term?"
- Clare Sugarman (2016): "The lived experience of parents whose children are deafblind: an occupational perspective"
- Laura Ingham (2024): “Evaluation methods used by occupational therapists in primary care – are current mechanisms value based?”
- Kathryn Halsall (2023): “Understanding Occupational Therapy Practice in Mothers from Ethnic Minorities; a qualitative study of the perceived barriers, enablers and requirements of occupational therapists working within community perinatal mental health services”
Previous Research and Development interns include:
- Jay Webster (2022)
- Sherri Kapadia (2021)
- Stephanie Busby (2019)
- James Fullard (2023)
- Rebecca Williamson (2024)
