Panellist expression of interest
If you would be interested in participating in upcoming Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) panel meetings, please complete the online expression of interest form.
Once you have registered your interest, you will be marked as available to participate in upcoming panel meetings and may be contacted by one of our funding officers.
You must have attended the initial peer review college induction training and mock panel session to be able to participate in AHRC panel meetings as a college member.
Non-standing panels
Panels meet ad hoc according to the requirements of the scheme. Panels provide final grades and a rank-ordered list for all of the applications they are asked to assess.
College members are not appointed to panels if they themselves have submitted a review or if they are involved in some way with a proposal that is being considered at the meeting. This reduces the risk of a conflict of interest arising.
Moderating panels
AHRC relies on moderating panels to make funding recommendations for most schemes that have an open deadline, including research grants and fellowships. Moderating panels assign final grades to proposals, then rank the proposals in order of priority for funding.
The rank-ordered list agreed by the panel forms the funding recommendation for AHRC. The role of the panel is to make judgments about the applications on the basis of feedback from peer reviewers and the principal investigator’s response. It is not a panel’s role to reassess applications when deciding upon a final grade.
Assessment panels
Members of assessment panels assess applications and assign a suggested grade according to the scheme’s criteria. This normally happens before the meeting.
The panel then meets to discuss the suggested grades, agree on the final grades, and rank applications in order of funding priority. The rank-ordered list represents the funding recommendation that is made to AHRC.
Last updated: 11 October 2023