Assessment process
Changes to Pathways to Impact
For information on how the recent changes to Pathways to Impact plans and the Impact summary will affect your Standard Mode application and its assessment:
Pathways to Impact: Research Councils call specific guidance now available
Peer Review Assessment Process after 1 March 2020
Change to Pathways to Impact: EPSRC External Briefing 20th February 2020
What happens after the panel?
What happens after a panel has concluded
Peer review principles
Principles to deliver a high quality and robust peer review process.
Allocation of EPSRC research budget
How EPSRC allocates research budgets.
Assessment process overview
A summary of the various peer review processes for Expressions of Interest, Outlines and Full Research Proposals.
EPSRC policy on conflicts of interest
This policy statement sets out clear expectations of when conflicts of interest need to be declared and how they should be managed.
Reviewer selection
How EPSRC selects reviewers
Reviewing proposals
Advice and information about reviewing proposals.
Introduction to reviewing proposals, Advice for reviewers, How to send in your review, Reviewer forms and guidance notes, Reviewer data …
Assessment criteria
EPSRC run an open and transparent peer review process. It is important that you are aware of how your proposal will be assessed. Copies of the reviewer forms and associated guidance for all EPSRC schemes are available.
Responding to reviewers' comments
How to respond to issues raised by reviewers before prioritisation panels.
Peer review panels
Information on the peer review panels process.
Panel meeting protocols, Panel member guidance, EPSRC Peer Review Extranet, Role of panel meetings in the peer review process, Balancing Capability and peer review panels …
Feedback
What feedback is provided and when will it be available?
Peer review process FAQs
Questions and answers for common queries on the EPSRC peer review process.
Peer review college
We select most reviewers and members of prioritisation panels from a college of peer reviewers.
Introduction to the college, College member selection, Responsibilities and benefits, College member online training, College newsletters