The Royal College of Occupational Therapists has launched a substantial review of its research and development activity. This is no small task and will involve undertaking a bit of a ‘journey’ over the next 12-18 months, the outcome of which will be a revised RCOT Vision, Strategy and Action Plan for Research and Development. As you can imagine, there is a great deal to consider, and this is where we need your help.
We know that there is a lot of great research going on that is both undertaken by occupational therapists and informs occupational therapy practice, so there is a lot to celebrate.
However, we also know that we still have a long way to go to develop a really strong evidence base to underpin the broad spread of our practice and robustly demonstrate the effectiveness of our interventions and the value that occupational therapy brings to the lives of individuals, groups and communities. One way to try to speed up the rate of progress is to increase the professions’ capacity for research, or the number of occupational therapists who are engaged in or with research. That’s what formed the basis of this #OTalk.
The questions that formed the basis of our discussion were:
- What does engaging in or with research mean to you?
- To what extent do you think engaging with research is, could or should be core to the practice of all occupational therapists?
- Research engagement takes many forms. What tangible things can you do to demonstrate involvement on a spectrum or range of levels?
- How receptive is the culture of your workplace to engagement with research?
Post #OTalk statistics
The Numbers
3.717M Impressions
961 Tweets
72 Participants
769 Avg Tweets/Hour
13 Avg Tweets/Participant