Members: Howie Martinez, Sandra Burlace, Sava Allott, Lohani Noor

1. Terms of Reference

The remit for the Research Committee is to develop, support and maximise the scope of research within the Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy.

2. Responsibilities:

*         To work closely with all the committees of MIP, senior trainers and directors of MIP with the objective of encouraging development of research specifically in the areas of integrated transactional analysis.

*         The Committee members will familiarise themselves with the present Integrative Transactional Analysis research resources. For example, the European Association of Transactional Analysis Research Journal.

*         The Committee is committed to the pursuit of psychotherapy research not only at MIP but in the wider psychotherapy community, nationally and internationally.

*         The Committee will be responsible for dialoguing with the webmaster of MIP’s Research website, making sure the content is current and up to date.

*         The Chair of the Committee will need to submit a short annual report at the time of the MIP AGM.

3.        Membership

 *         The membership of this committee should be minimum of 3 members, maximum of 6 members.

*         Membership should be drawn from the general membership of the Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy, if possible members should represent different categories of membership of MIP.

*         The Chair should be in place no longer than 3 years and the AGM will then elect a new Chair.

*         There needs to be a quorum of at least two members for the committee to meet.

*         A consensus decision-making process will normally be followed.

4. Timeframe:

 *         The Committee should meet at least four times a year.

*         The duration time of the Committee will be determined by this specific committee. For example, one and a half to two hours.

*         The Committee may meet online or at MIP, which ever medium is suitable for the membership of the group.