OTA Research Foundation Direct Gift Recipient Grants

Eligibility Criteria:

• The lead applicant must be an AHPRA-registered occupational therapist.
• If an individual applicant applies, rather than submitting a team application, and the applicant does not hold a PhD, he or she must identify, and provide a signed letter of support, from an AHPRA-registered occupational therapist who is an experienced researcher (doctorate or equivalent with evidence of scholarly publications in the past 5 years) who agrees to mentor the applicant for the project and monitor compliance with Human Research Ethics Committee approvals and requirements, if ethics approval by HRECs is needed.
• Lead applicants must have been a member of Occupational Therapy Australia Limited for at least 24 months prior to the grant application’s commencement date. Student membership can be included.
• Lead applicants must retain membership for the period that they are reporting on the project.
• Applicants must be an Australian citizen or have permanent residency status.
• Applicants must reside in Australia for the duration of the grant.
• In accordance with the OTARF Trust Deed requirements, a grant can only be awarded to “Eligible Entities”. These are authorities or institutions which are income tax exempt charities AND deductible gift recipients (DGRs). Applicants can check if the organisation where they work is eligible by searching (by organisation name) at http://abr.business.gov.au/ and checking if the organisation is classified as a charity and registered with the ACNC Charity Register (http://www.acnc.gov.au/) and also that it is a DGR which is not a private or public ancillary fund.
• The DGR organisation must be identified as the administering institution on the application form and must agree to provide a detailed financial report of the grant’s expenditure.
• Any research applications involving people (as opposed to policy/documentary reviews, for example) must provide written evidence that the research project has received approval from a Human Research Ethics Committee in Australia.
• Applicants may be provided the grant conditional on obtaining ethics approval if it is required for the study, but not known at the time of application.

Applications for this award are now open and close at 5:00pm (AEDT) on Friday, 14 February 2025. Application forms with additional documents as listed in the Guidelines are to be submitted to awards@otaus.com.au.