As part of your membership of BIOS, you also receive free membership of CAHPR, which provides resources, CPD and networking opportunities.
The Council is supported by 14 AHP organisations, including BIOS. Its mission is to develop AHP research, strengthen evidence of the professions’ value and impact for enhancing service user and community care, and enable the professions to speak with one voice on research issues, thereby raising their profile and increasing their influence.
CAHPR resources are produced by subject experts in CAHPR hubs and committees to support researchers and research capacity.
You can access them here.
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If you are interested in finding out more:
Find out more about CAHPR here.
Visit our Research page.
Keep up to date with the latest research in the BIOS journal, BIOJ.
Summary of achievements 2022-2023
- The Health Education England (HEE), Allied Health Professions (AHP) Research and Innovation Strategy was launched in January 2022, with CAHPR being heavily involved with the implementation of the strategy.
- CAHPR received funding from HEE for three projects on 1) Communication and Culture, 2) Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and 3) Optimising AHP academic research opportunities and opportunities for AHP researchers. In addition, the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funded the resurrection of the CAHPR/NIHR Research Champions Initiative.
- The key outputs from the HEE project 1) were around extending CAHPR’s influence, re-working their website and considering CAHPR as part of an ecosystem of many organisations involved in research and playing to our strengths. Project 2) highlighted areas where they could be more diverse and the work they can do to promote EDI in research by challenging inequity and calling out poor and unfair practice. Project 3) identified that their key strengths were: being able to represent the 14 AHPs and the individualised support the hubs give to AHPs. In addition, they have put together a wealth of new online resources for AHPs for placements, mentoring, leadership and free online e-learning.
- The 26 hubs continue their good work maintaining a wide network of support for AHP research and AHP researchers. This year you will be able to view all the hub annual reports on-line and the new CAHPR calendar of events shows the interesting line-up of webinars from the consortia across the UK.
- They have recruited new research champions bringing the total to over 30. They will work on connecting academic and NHS research and ICSs.
- They are working towards a new website, a new organisational structure and planning campaigns to promote and celebrate the work of AHPs in research.
