Prehospital, Resuscitation and Emergency Care Research Unit (PRECRU)
The Prehospital, Resuscitation and Emergency Care Research Unit (PRECRU) is based in the School of Nursing in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University. It is a collaborative research endeavour with St John WA. PRECRU is made up of a team of researchers, under the direction of John Curtin Distinguished Professor Judith Finn, who have come together to promote and conduct clinical research to improve outcomes for prehospital resuscitation and emergency care patients.


Our research
Find out about PRECRU’s scope of research, collaborative partnerships as well as an overview of some of our current and completed projects.
2025 HDR Scholarship available:
This PhD scholarship is funded through the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence grant entitled: Optimising the emergency response to save lives: An Aus-ROC Centre of Research Excellence (Aus-ROC CRE). The purpose of the scholarship is to provide a full-time PhD stipend to enable doctoral research that aims to make a difference to survival outcomes for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA).
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About PRECRU
PRECRU is made up of a team of researchers, under the direction of John Curtin Distinguished Professor Judith Finn, who have come together to promote and conduct clinical research to improve outcomes for prehospital resuscitation and emergency care patients.