Research in rural emergency care depends on the people who work within it — rural clinicians, administrators, telehealth and retrieval teams, alongside academic researchers.
The Rural Research Toolkit brings together practical guides drawn from the RRECN newsletter and network discussions. These resources are designed to support those contributing to research from everyday clinical and service settings, where time is limited but insight is deep.
- Consumer, carer, community and clinician: Who counts as a stakeholder in rural emergency medicine research? - Your research proposal comes back with a simple question: “How were consumers and stakeholders involved in the project design?” Then you remember yesterday’s shift. The tourist with a broken… Read More »Consumer, carer, community and clinician: Who counts as a stakeholder in rural emergency medicine research?
- What makes qualitative research “trustworthy”? - RRECN member Dr Vinay Gangathimmaiah’s latest publication helps us to consider how best to choose wisely for ED investigations from a patient perspective. This qualitative study of a convenience sample… Read More »What makes qualitative research “trustworthy”?
- All News Is Local — And So Is Rural Research - Sharing rural research through local media Farmers in rural communities are unlikely to be reading the Australian Journal of Rural Health — unless it suddenly adds a long-range weather forecast.… Read More »All News Is Local — And So Is Rural Research
- “Great idea — but it won’t work here” - From city evidence to country practice: making change stick If you work in a rural emergency department, you’ve probably said it before. A new model of care, a clever protocol,… Read More »“Great idea — but it won’t work here”
- Keep It All Together from the Start - Why ORCID is the First Step for Rural Clinicians in Research You may have published nothing yet, or you might be slowly building a record — co-authoring a case report,… Read More »Keep It All Together from the Start
- Using Rural Hospital Data the Right Way - Rory Miller (RRECN, New Zealand) and colleagues have published a pair of studies that highlight how rural realities can be misrepresented in hospital data — and why researchers must be… Read More »Using Rural Hospital Data the Right Way