The Paramedicine Research Unit (PRU) was established in 2021 as a result of a collaborative research endeavour between AUT, Hato Hone St John, Wellington Free Ambulance Service, and Whitireia NZ | Te Pūkenga. The goal of this multi-agency collaborative endeavour was to establish a committed platform for the production of high-quality paramedicine-related research in Aotearoa New Zealand.
The PRU represents the foundation for a larger transdisciplinary research centre that will focus on evidence-based pre-hospital health care practices and also research that promotes kaupapa Māori and Tiriti-based relationships for health equity in Aotearoa New Zealand.
The PRU is hosted within the Department of Paramedicine in the School of Clinical Sciences at AUT.
Partnership, integrity, responsibility, accountability, collegiality, respect, and enhancement of paramedicine-related health outcomes are the values that guide all activities undertaken by PRU, particularly those related to the establishment and preservation of meaningful and mutually beneficial relationships with Māori.
The mission of the PRU is to produce collaborative high-quality, clinical, and epidemiological paramedicine-related research that is contextually appropriate and translatable into practice.
The aim of the PRU is to create research that is both contextually and clinically beneficial to Aotearoa New Zealand. To help achieve this aim, the PRU aspires to undertake research that:
The PRU focuses on, although not limited to, the following topic areas
PRU members bring a diversity of knowledge, experience, and perspectives and work in different paramedicine-related sectors within Aotearoa New Zealand.
Membership comprises representation from
Get in touch if you want to find out more about our research or would like to collaborate with us.
Email pru@aut.ac.nz