Peer Reviewers and Process
The Peer Review community will assess applications that are aligned with the UKRI’s Building a Secure and Resilient world priority sub- themes in a fair and timely manner with equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) considerations.
Applications to the SALIENT Devolved Funding calls will be anonymised and assessed by a group of independent peer reviewers, and final review and decision making will be completed by the SALIENT Work package leads.
Membership
The Peer Reviewers are invited from a wide range of backgrounds including, but not limited to; academia, Government and industry. Please contact salient@manchester.ac.uk if you would like to join the SALIENT peer reviewer community.
Responsibilities
- Peer Reviewers will provide in-kind support and will be responsible for reviewing the SALIENT devolved funding (DF) call applications and providing feedback on the applications via the online FlexiGrant system.
- Peer reviewers will be sent a link to the FlexiGrant system and they will need to create and/ or activate their account to login. The whole process will be managed via the platform.
- DF award decisions will be made by the SALIENT work package leads, using evidence gathered from peer-review. Applications will be anonymised.
- UKRI may request records of the peer review and the decision-making process.
Expectations
- Peer Reviewers will ideally have experience of peer reviewing in a research setting.
- Peer reviewers will ideally have expertise, knowledge or understanding of the SALIENT work packages.
- Peer reviewers will be expected to review approximately 1-3 applications per round within a three-week period.
- Peer reviewers will be expected to review applications in the FlexiGrant system.
- Peer reviewers will be expected to familiarise themselves with the SALIENT work packages.
- Peer reviewers will be expected to act professionally when reviewing applications.
- Peer reviewers will be expected to declare any conflict of interest i.e. if applying to a call, they can’t then review applications within that call.
Benefits
- Peer Reviewers will be part of a national UKRI funded investment which will strengthen social and economic resilience, enhance national security across virtual and physical spaces and will ensure the UK can absorb adversity, deal with change and respond to emerging threats and opportunities.
- Peer Reviewers can attend events run by SALIENT, Thomas Ashton Institute and, where relevant/ appropriate, our partners and collaborators.
- Peer Reviewers will receive details of the types of research we do, including access to (where appropriate) outputs such as reports, papers/ journals etc.
- Peer Reviewers will receive early bird information on funding calls.
- Peer Reviewers will gain experience peer reviewing for a research Hub funded via a research council.
- Peer Reviewers, upon request can receive a SALIENT peer reviewer certificate.
- Peer Reviewers can promotion their events via SALIENT and Thomas Ashton Institute communications channels.
- There is potential for networking.
Resources
Process
PMO = SALIENT Project Management Office
