In December we invited nominations to the University’s new Peer Review College (PRC). There was a great response, and the Faculty Associate Deans have now agreed the membership of a University-wide PRC. With this in place, the updated internal peer review system is now ready to go live.
The System
The system is integrated into KRIMSON, and is intended to be both simple, flexible and appropriate to your timeframe and the scale of your project.
It is primarily intended for:
- Research council applications; OR
- First substantial applications to an external funder(or applications to specific first grant schemes). In other words, your first reasonable project grant or fellowship, not applications for conference travel grants, etc; OR
- Large grant applications. The threshold for these is based on the total amount being requested, and differs between Faculties:
- Humanities: over £100k;
- Social Sciences: over £200k;
- Sciences: over £300k.
In order to get your project peer reviewed:
- complete the ‘Basic Project Information’ section on KRIMSON for your proposal as soon as possible,
- click ‘yes’ to the question ‘peer review required’, and
- choose the Funding Officer relevant to your Faculty as follows:
- Sciences: Dr Helen Leech and Dr Carolyn Barker
- Social Sciences: Brian Lingley
- Humanities: Lynne Bennett
You can leave the rest to us. The relevant Funding Officer will be alerted to your proposal, and will be in touch to suggest the most appropriate reviewer for it from the PRC.
All the members of the College have either had experience in getting grants from the funders that they represent, or as part of the funders’ own colleges, or as members of their panels – or all three. As such, they have considerable experience of what makes a successful application, and can provide feedback which could make the difference between success and failure for your proposal.
Further Information
Further information on the system and the PRC is available on the Research Services website, here. However, if you have a specific query don’t hesitate to get in touch with Phil Ward direct.
My thanks to all who put themselves forward to join the PRC. Their willingness to offer help to colleagues is an invaluable – and much appreciated – resource.