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PROFESSIONAL RESOURCES
Inclusive design challenge: last call for
applications
The Design Council, an independent charity and the government’s adviser
on design, has a vision where the role and value of design is recognised as a
fundamental creator of value, enabling happier, healthier and safer lives for all.
The call for applications to Design Council Spark 2019 – The Home
Innovation Challenge is still open and the application deadline has been
extended until Tuesday 23 April at 3pm.
Design Council Spark, a leading UK product innovation support
programme and investment fund, is designed to help innovators and
entrepreneurs turn their ideas into a commercially successful product. The
Home Innovation Challenge is looking for innovative product ideas that will
make life at home easier and better for all.
Up to 10 finalists will initially receive £15,000 to help develop their product,
with the opportunity to pitch for a share of up to £150,000 further funding to
fast-track their product to market.
The Design Council believes that ‘every home should be a place where we
can relax and enjoy life: whatever our age or capability’. But that ‘more and
more people are facing challenges in the home’.
It adds: ‘We are looking for new, innovative product ideas that will make
home life easier, and are well designed, so that everyone can feel more
confident, capable and in-dependent. We want our homes to be a joy, not a
chore.’
Visit: www.designcouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/accelerator/design-council-
spark.
ACCREDITATION OF PRE-REGISTRATION PROGRAMMES
INVITATION FOR APPLICATIONS FOR THE ROLE OF
RCOT ACCREDITOR
The Royal College of Occupational Therapists’ (RCOT) accreditation process
ensures that occupational therapy pre-registration programmes in the UK meet
the current learning and development standards set by the College.
The process involves a panel of accreditors assessing and critically reviewing
the occupational therapy provision; actively participating in the review and
evaluation process and working collaboratively with the RCOT panel, the
education provider and stakeholders. Accreditors are selected from a range
of qualified occupational therapists who will already be RCOT members with
significant experience in occupational therapy pre-registration education.
We are now recruiting accreditors who are able to engage with RCOT in
providing this valuable service, in addition to adding substantially to their own
professional development, for the forthcoming academic period.
For further information, expressions of interest and to request an application
form for the role of RCOT accreditor please email Clair Parkin, Education
Manager (Quality and Standards) at [e-mail].
Completed application forms must be received at RCOT by 31 May 2019.
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Royal College of Occupational Therapists (or ‘RCOT’) is a registered
charity in England and Wales (No. 275119) and in Scotland
(No. SCO39573) and a limited company registered in England
(No. 1347374).Registered office: 106–114 Borough High Street,
London SE1 1LB. VAT Reg. No. 242 7829 47.
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BJOT
NEXT ISSUE
In the May issue of BJOT, Mary Hildebrand
contributes an editorial on treatment fidelity,
discusses the challenges of evaluating occupational
therapy interventions, and how inroads in
comparable fields, such as psychotherapy and
health behaviour change, is requiring that outcomes
research incorporates treatment fidelity methods.
The editorial is complemented by Bowyer
and Tkach’s study of treatment fidelity in MOHO
research, examining relevant studies to assess
to what extent levels of treatment fidelity are
demonstrated in the research.
In a study on understanding diabetes self-
management using the MOHO, Youngson
conducted interviews with people with diabetes to
understand further their lived experience and the role
of occupational therapy in self-management, seen as
an occupation.
Black et al performed a scoping review to
examine how occupational engagement is defined
within occupational therapy literature and how
occupational engagement is evaluated, identifying
26 relevant articles.
In a case-control study, Yavuz Tatlı and Semin
Akel analysed the temporal activity pattern of
individuals with stroke compared to healthy adults,
for its relevance widening the perspective of
interventions. They found that the temporal activity
of people with stroke was different from that of
healthy controls and concluded that individuals with
stroke may benefit from a program focusing on the
temporal aspect of activities.
Porath and Rosenblum also considered time in
their study characterising time organisation and
participation dimensions, and the relationships
between those dimensions among undergraduate
students.
All articles are published online at the journal’s
OnlineFirst page as soon as ready. Visit BJOT via
your member login at www.rcot.co.uk to browse
these and other recent publications in full (once
logged in).
BJOT has a new call for article submissions
on the topic of stroke rehabilitation. Deadline for
submissions is 30 June 2019. For more information
see the January issue or http://journals.sagepub.
com/page/bjo/call-for-papers.