What is Battlab?
‘Battlab’ is a virtual collaborative space to support paramedicine research students and graduates of Dr. Alan Batt (Head of Lab), and promote socialization (key to graduate student development and success). All members of the lab are paramedics by background and profession, whose academic focus is predominantly on research, education, and practice improvements. Our lab was founded in 2023.
Battlab members actively research health professions education, social and structural determinants of health, the evolving role of paramedicine, and the care of structurally marginalized and under-served populations. Specific topic areas include:
- Competency framework development
- Patient deterioration
- Professional image and portrayals
- Organ and tissue donation
- Integrated and alternative care models
- Care of people who use drugs
- Policy analysis and upstream initiatives
- Indigenous paramedic practice
- Psychological first aid and familly support
- Flourishing and paramedic wellbeing
- Social needs assessments
- Teamwork and communication
- Research capacity building
- Social prescribing
- Community paramedicine
What does Battlab do?
We meet virtually once a month to share work-in-progress for feedback, review important philosophical and theoretical aspects of research, and support individual members of the lab with research, career, and professional development. In addition, we provide resources and expertise with writing, grant applications, and presentations such as writing sessions, access to literature, and collaboration opportunities.
Lab members
- A/Prof. Alan Batt, PhD, Monash University; Queen’s University; University of Toronto – Head of Lab
- Adam Greene, PhD student, Monash University
- Chelsea Lanos, MSc, Monash University
- Cheryl Cameron, PhD candidate, Monash University
- Jennifer Bolster, PhD student, Monash University
- JD Heffern, BPara(Hons.) student, Monash University
- Meghan Lysko, MSc, Oxford County Paramedic Service
- Michelle O’Toole, PhD student, Monash University
- Paige Mason, MA, Ottawa Paramedic Service
- Trevor Hines Duncliffe, PhD candidate, University of Western Ontario
- Tyne Lunn, BPara(Hons.) student, Monash University
- William Johnston, MSc, Ottawa Paramedic Service
- Cameron Woodman, BHSc(Hons.) student, Queen’s University
Research outputs
https://www.researchgate.net/lab/Battlab-Alan-M-Batt
Honours and awards
- Best Poster Award Winner, PHECC Prehospital Research Day, November 2024. O’Toole et al. HUGS@Home project.
- King Charles III Coronation Medal, 2024. Services to paramedicine in Canada. Dr. Alan Batt.
- Victoria Foundation’s Rachel and Ernest Fox Legacy Award 2024. Paige Mason.
- Emerging Scholar Award 2024, McNally Project for Paramedicine Research. Chelsea Lanos.
- Highest Quality Research Award, 999 EMS Research Forum, September 2024. O’Toole et al. The voices of family members and first responders in Ireland.
- Top oral abstract award, Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program, December 2023. Lanos et al. Organ donation after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Canada.
- Highest Quality Research Award, Australasian College of Paramedicine International Conference, September 2023. Batt et al. Developing a competency framework for contemporary paramedic practice in Canada.
- Top 3 Canadian Paramedicine Research Papers, Canadian Paramedicine Research Day, May 2023. Bolster et al. The paramedic role in substance use: a scoping review.
- Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Medal, 2023. Services to palliative care in Alberta. Cheryl Cameron
- Top EMS Research Award, Dalhousie University EMS Research Day, October 2022. Bolster et al. The paramedic role in substance use: a scoping review.
- Best oral abstract, Alberta EMS and Paramedicine Research Day, May 2021. Lunn et al. Dealing with dying- progressing paramedics’ role in grief support.
- Award of Excellence for Leadership & Community Building, 2018, Paramedic Association of Canada. Alan Batt