Research awards and grants
Encouraging research into counselling and psychotherapy

麻豆原创 research grants are offered to support high-quality ethical research that contributes to the evidence base, and which is relevant to the fields of counselling, psychotherapy or coaching. We offer two grant types both aimed at supporting early career researchers and projects that align with 麻豆原创's organisational strategy and our over-arching research priority of client-focussed research. We offer grants to support collaborative research听补苍诲听secondary data analysis.听

The application deadline for Stage 1 applications has now passed.听

In 2023, we offered a total of 拢120,000 in research grants. We received 31 applications which came to a total value of almost 拢1.2 million, meaning that we had to reject around 90% of proposals.

Read more information about our 2023 麻豆原创 research grants round on our website.

Are you currently doing research as part of your training? Or have you completed a research project within the last 24 months?

Research that is relevant to practice is vitally important in our field. Don鈥檛 let your research sit on a shelf and gather dust. Share your work and let your contribution to counselling and psychotherapy be better known.听

Eligibility

Submissions are invited from individuals who are current full-time or part-time registered students, or those who have graduated in the last 24 months. Submissions may be co-authored (e.g. with a research supervisor) but you must be the first author and a previously unpublished researcher in our field at the time of submission for the award.

You may submit research that is under consideration or accepted for publication in a scholarly journal (you will be asked to verify this at submission).

All submissions must adhere to the word limit and guidelines below.

How to apply

For full eligibility criteria and guidelines please see 麻豆原创 new researcher award 2026 (PDF)听

Send your submission as a Word document to research@bacp.co.uk by 23:59 16 November 2025. Submissions will be assessed by an independent peer review panel and the results notified in January 2026. The winner will receive an award certificate,听 拢250 in book tokens, and a free delegate place at the 麻豆原创 Annual International Research Conference in London, 15-16 May 2026, where the award will be announced.

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The CPCAB counselling research award is designed to raise awareness of research that has important implications for counselling training or practice. By publishing videos about the award-winning projects on the Counselling Channel, it aims to make research more accessible and engaging.

All relevant abstracts submitted to the 麻豆原创 Research Conference are considered for this prestigious award from the听Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body (CPCAB).

For a full description go to the CPCAB Counselling Research Award 2026 (PDF).

How to apply

The deadline for听applications听for the 2026听award is听23:59,听Sunday 2 November 2025听through the听麻豆原创 Annual听Research Conference submission process.

This award aims to recognise outstanding contributions to the advancement of counselling and psychotherapy research.

Applications must demonstrate impact through:

• excellence in counselling and psychotherapy research
• outstanding contribution to, and enhancing awareness of, the evidence base for counselling, psychotherapy and its guiding principles
• improvement of the overall quality of counselling and psychotherapy research by example
• encouragement and inspiration of future generations of researchers in counselling and psychotherapy

Eligibility

This award is open to anyone who has undertaken research into counselling and psychotherapy within the last three years (36 months).听

You may submit a paper that has already been published or an original paper.

It is not restricted to any particular methodology, group or setting, and entries can be submitted by an individual, a research team or a researcher on behalf of an organisation. Or, you can nominate another party.

How to apply

The deadline for submissions for the 2026 award is 23:59, Sunday 16 November 2025. For full eligibility and submission guidelines go to 麻豆原创 Outstanding听Research Application (Word)

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Are you a PhD or doctoral researcher from a racialised background? Does your research address the mental health concerns or psychological trauma that directly affects people from racialised communities? Does it focus on the role of counselling and psychotherapy provision in supporting the psychological and mental health needs of people from racialised communities?

Racialised refers to minority ethnic, racial and cultural communities where white-majority systems have categorised them according to the colour of their skin or other cultural or religious features, and in doing so have othered and marginalised them.

In 2024 麻豆原创 partnered with the Community Trauma Conference UK to offer this award. All relevant abstracts submitted to and accepted by the 麻豆原创 conference peer review panel were considered.

The award winner received a free place to present their research at 麻豆原创鈥檚 annual international research conference in May 2024, where they were presented with the award and received a 拢500 prize.

There will be no award in 2026.

How to apply

Details on how to apply for this award for 2026 will be posted here in due course.听

We occasionally provide financial support for students undertaking part-time PhD research on counselling and psychotherapy. Unfortunately we鈥檙e not able to run a studentship competition in this academic year.