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AOTI does not circulate members’ information to any outside bodies and will not circulate contact lists of members to individual researchers.
Procedure to apply for access to the AOTI database
If a researcher wishes to contact members of AOTI they must approach the AOTI Research Committee via the AOTI office by email to request authorisation (
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). Please mark the email for the attention of the AOTI Research Committee. The following attachments must be with the initial email request;
To access specific Advisory Group members the Chair of the Research Committee will contact the Chair of the Advisory Groups when all relevant information has been received and approved.
Cost of Application
Members of AOTI can access the AOTI database for research following this procedure with no charge. For non- members of AOTI there is a fee of €30 for this service. Cheques to be made payable to Association of Occupational Therapists of Ireland and posted to the AOTI office (AOTI, PO Box 11555, Ground Floor Office, Bow Bridge House, Bow Lane, Kilmainham, Dublin 8).
Once received
The Research Committee will coordinate the access of the AOTI database for research purposes with the AOTI Office Manager. The Chair of the AOTI Committee plus one group member will be responsible for giving approval for access to the database if the procedures have been adhered to and will instruct the AOTI Office Manager to circulate the relevant information on the database when payment has been received. The AOTI Executive Council will be contacted by the Chair of the Research Committee with any queries and will also approve the research database requests if the Research Committee is not in situ.
Timeline of successful application
If the research is acceptable to AOTI, the researcher will be informed by email and a copy of the description of the study will be sent to the AOTI membership via email who have agreed to participate in research.
AOTI will aim to process the first access to the database within 4 weeks of receipt of all relevant information.
AOTI will send out research requests once to the database and only on request from the researcher will it be sent out once more two weeks later. There will be no third sending of the research request by AOTI via email.
Please note
Checklist
Please ensure that the following is included in your email to the AOTI office (
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for attention of AOTI Research Committee
Devised by AOTI Research Committee and approved by AOTI Council November 2010
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