II National Seminar of Occupational Therapy Research: path to the academic institutionalization of the field
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-6149.v25i2p167-176Keywords:
Occupational Therapy/Research, Occupational Therapy/ Trends, Organization and Administration, Scientifi c and Educational EventsAbstract
Research on Occupational Therapy in Brazil has been conducted with relevant restrictions in relation to access to funding and to its institutionalization in the graduate system. To understand this scenario, efforts have been made to articulate the II National Seminar of Occupational Therapy Research: Promoting and Integrating Research in the Area, held in 2012, at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and the systematization of the October 2013 data on the 30 Research Groups registered with the CNPq (Sub area of Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy). The synthesis of the conferences, debates and reports of the ten Work Groups of the event are presented, in which 106
papers were divulged, representing an increase in research in the
area. Data from the Research Groups indicate small academic institutionalization, with only 88 registered researchers, of which 34 were professor advisors in graduate programs (stricto sensu). The ccupational therapists gathered in Rio de Janeiro considered fundamental to hold the “Seminars” and determined the third edition for 2014, at the Federal University of Paraíba, to continue the collective strategies aiming the full academic institutionalization of occupational therapy in Brazil.
