AHRC’s Peer Review College has around 1,000 members from higher education institutions and independent research organisations in the UK and overseas, and from outside academia.
Peer Review College membership guide
A guide for members of the AHRC Peer Review College.
Standards of service
Read the standards of service that AHRC expects of its reviewers and what you can expect of AHRC.
Peer review principles
The UKRI principles of assessment and decision-making explains eight core principles in detail and how they may impact you when assessing applications in the form of reviewing and panel attendance. They outline UKRI’s expectations and ambition for assessment processes and provide transparency to its commitment to robust decision-making.
Conflicts of interest
Read guidance on what is a conflict of interest and how to deal with conflicts of interest.
Peer Review College membership visualisation
How to use AHRC’s interactive visualisation of college membership: The interactive maps and tables on the visualisation have a selection of views. Users can select a research organisation to filter the dashboard.
Hear from our academics
Hear about peer reviewing and AHRC’s Peer Review College in the following videos.
Watch
An Introduction to the Peer Review College
This short film shows footage from one of our peer review induction session from April 2018. It includes first-hand testimonials from our college members about their experiences of being in the college, and what being a college member means to them.
Watch Peer Review College wrap up on Vimeo.
Listen (videos with audio only)
At the Follow the Members peer review event, members of AHRC’s Peer Review College discussed:
What does it mean to be a peer reviewer?
What was your motivation to be a peer reviewer?
What are the characteristics you need to be a peer reviewer?
Last updated: 17 September 2026