Assessment and intervention
Investigate and refine approaches to assessment, clinical reasoning and intervention.
Postgraduate Research Support
The Sensory Project · Postgraduate Research Support
Supporting postgraduate research in Ayres’ Sensory Integration.
The Sensory Project and ASI Wise support MSc, PhD and other postgraduate researchers exploring Ayres’ Sensory Integration and related fields. We help connect rigorous academic work with clinical reasoning, lived experience and real-world participation.
Why research matters
Strengthening knowledge across research and practice.
Postgraduate research can deepen understanding of sensory integration and processing, test assumptions, strengthen practice and inform the decisions made by clinicians, services and policy makers.
Evidence across populations
Extend the evidence base across ages, identities, settings and participation needs.
Neuroscience and theory
Explore the neurological foundations of sensory integration, processing and praxis.
Policy and professional practice
Inform occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy and wider services.
How we may help
Support shaped around the project.
Support depends on the research question, stage, institutional arrangements, available capacity and fit with our areas of experience. An initial conversation helps identify what would be useful and proportionate.
Mentorship and supervision
Access experienced clinical and academic thinking, including mentorship or supervisory input where this can be appropriately agreed.
Funding and sponsorship
Explore relevant grants, scholarships or sponsorship opportunities where these are available and suitable for the project.
Research networks
Connect with clinicians, academics and professional communities working in sensory integration and processing.
Ethics and methodology
Reflect on research design, methods, ethics preparation, participation and the claims that a study can reasonably support.
Workshops and learning
Build research confidence through specialist learning, workshops, peer discussion and signposting to relevant resources.
Publication and presentation
Consider ways to communicate findings through conferences, professional networks, accessible resources and publication.
Collaboration and contribution
Help research make sense in the real world.
We encourage collaboration between postgraduate researchers, clinicians, academics, organisations and people with lived experience. This helps questions stay relevant and supports responsible translation into practice.
- Develop collaborative studies around important clinical and theoretical questions.
- Connect research with real services, occupations, relationships and participation.
- Build on existing knowledge while making gaps and uncertainty visible.
- Share learning through professional networks, conferences and accessible resources.
Before you contact us
Tell us enough to understand your project.
A concise outline helps us respond more thoughtfully and decide whether we are the right people to help.
Research Support complements formal university and employer processes. It does not replace your institution’s supervision, ethics review or research governance, and funding or collaboration cannot be guaranteed.
- Your working research question or area of interest.
- Your course, institution and current stage of study.
- The population, context or participation issue involved.
- The kind of support or collaboration you are seeking.
- Your proposed method, partners and formal supervisors.
- Your key dates, deadlines and intended outputs.