Adventure Risk Research Symposium

  Our short research papers for the past four years are available free on the Kobo ebook platform, linked below. You can view on your device or download their reader app. https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/adventure-risk-research-symposium-proceedings-2022-2025?sId=64f382d2-3b18-4100-b075-e8772befa4b4&ssId=q4r2BJolw6vzt0cQLUXWL&cPos=1 You can find the previously published proceedings (2019-2021) at this link:  https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/adventure-risk-research-symposium-proceedings-2019-2021

 View the 2025 Adventure Risk Research Symposium livestream here! https://youtu.be/2hTLW8-xcq8 See you in 2026!

 Annual Risk Research Symposium, in partnership with the Wilderness Risk Management Conference Co-Chairs: Dr Jeff Jackson and Dr Clare Dallat Abstracts When Help Is a Swipe Away: Technology, Scope Creep, and EMS Pressure in Algonquin Park The changing profile of backcountry park users and easy access to powerful communication technology has changed how users access help. Data is presented that show a sharp increase in recreation backcountry emergency medical calls in and around Canada's Algonquin Park. This increase in call volume has led to scope creep, exposes system vulnerabilities, and points to other issues in need of consideration. Author: • Matt Cruchet (MSc, BSc, HBOR, ACP), Commander, County of Renfrew Paramedic Service Understanding Weather in the Outdoors: Insights from a National Survey of Practitioners As severe weather events become more frequent and unpredictable, outdoor practitioners face growing challenges in accessing, interpreting, and applying weather informati...

  Please join us for the 7th annual Adventure Risk Research Symposium, Sept. 30 at 3pm EST. Held in conjunction with the Wilderness Risk Management Conference and the online symposium is free to attend. Our goal is to showcase a range of findings, methods, researchers, with this year's research presentations from Canada, Australia, Tanzania and United States! Topic: WRMC Annual Risk Research Symposium 2025 Time: Sep 30, 2025 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86207120657?pwd=YXfmND0Fo1VOg1Vvtp7vZmeg24GS2R.1   Meeting ID: 862 0712 0657 Passcode: 914649

The short papers from the 2024 Adventure Risk Research Symposium are available here for free download. Cite these papers as: Individual author (2024). Paper title. In Dallat, C., & Jackson, J. (Eds.). (2024). Proceedings of the 6 th Annual Adventure Risk Research Symposium. Wilderness Risk Management Conference, October 2024.     Streamed presentations can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YqJ71u-SI4&t=4s 2025 ARRS will take place end of September, online. Send any new research or researchers our way!

We hope you can join us at this year's Adventure Risk Research Symposium. This is the third annual gathering of the ARR, held in conjunction with the Wilderness Risk Management Conference (link here ).  Mark your calendar!  When: Thursday, October 14, 1pm Mountain, 3pm Eastern (if you are from Australia or Sweden you are on your own to figure out the time...) Free to attend this symposium - you do not need to register for the conference or pre-register to join us. How: Zoom link to be posted here nearer the date. Capacity limited to the first 300 to sign on, first come first served. We have adventure research presentations from Sweden, Canada, Australia and the United States, including work on Covid practices, park visitation, outdoor injury data, safety climate correlations, second victim research, and assessing first aid competency. See the tab at the top of this page to view the abstracts and full papers (which will be available for free). 

 The 2020 Adventure Risk Research Symposium is virtual for 2020, in alignment with the Wilderness Risk Management Conference. A full agenda for the session will be posted shortly. The format will continue to be short presentations from risk researchers regarding their original research. 

Presenters at the inaugural Adventure Risk Research Symposium Our inaugural Adventure Risk Research Symposium was a hit. Keep an eye soon for a call for new papers for next year! Some of the feedback we received from attendees: "This was phenomenal. There is an urgent need for this in our field. It would be great to see this content and approach ingrained more throughout the mainstream conference." "This workshop was a whirlwind of good information. The need for addressing problems on the systems level was a really good takeaway." Link to the proceedings and papers is here .

The inaugural gathering of wilderness and adventure risk and safety researchers, held in conjunction with the Wilderness Risk Management Conference (WRMC).  October 30, 2019,  Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. Goals: 1.        Connect researchers working on wilderness and adventure risk/safety research 2.        Share findings to create a platform for idea development and future collaboration 3.        Focus on empiricism as a means of improving understanding or practice for wilderness/adventure risk management and safety Symposium Format: ·          1 day pre-conference to the Wilderness Risk Management Conference (symposium date October 30, 2019; conference date Oct. 31/Nov.1) ·          Presenters apply via brief research paper (paper submission details tab at top of page) o ...