The RACGP invited both internal and external stakeholders to help determine the education research priority areas for the 2026 Education Research Grant round. Stakeholders were asked to rate the relevance and importance of several potential research topics, and were invited to nominate new topics. This process ensures that the Education Research Grant program is addressing the most important educational research questions at a regional and national level.

Responses were reviewed and ranked by a selection panel in November 2024. The panel determined nine education research priority areas for 2026.

• Supervision: Recruitment, selection, support and retention of high-quality general practice supervisors

• Artificial Intelligence technologies in general practice: Exploring the implications and impact of emerging artificial intelligence technologies in GP training

• Education and Assessment: Educational and assessment strategies in GP training: effectiveness, implementation, quality improvement and innovation

• Career pathways: Career paths and types of practice of recent fellows, and implications for GP training

• Training environments: Enabling and building positive training experiences in evolving training environments

• Embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander values, knowledge, practice and worldview: Exploring best practice approaches to how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander values, ways of knowing, being and doing, and a holistic worldview of health, healing and cultural safety are embedded across GP training, education and assessment

• Rural general practice training: Supporting quantity, quality and attractiveness across rural GP training

• Research capacity: Developing research skills and culture in general practice training environments

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander general practitioners: Pathways to success for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander GP trainees and GPs

There are up to eight $150,000 grants available for a 12-month project in 2026.

Please note that a proposal that does not fit within at least one of these broad priority areas may still be considered if a compelling case is presented.