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.
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 change these views by selecting a college type to update the maps, or select a research organisation to filter the whole dashboard.
Users can also:
- hover over points or segments of the visualisation to bring up more information in a legend
- export underlying data tables for their own analysis
- share the visualisation with others
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 proposals 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.
Using generative artificial intelligence (AI) in peer review
Reviewers and panellists are not permitted to use generative AI tools to develop their assessment, including to correct language, spelling, grammar and formatting. Using these tools can potentially compromise the confidentiality of the ideas that applicants have entrusted to UKRI to safeguard.
For more detail see our policy on the use of generative AI.
Member online training
Online training for members prior to induction events and effective reviewing.
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 it means to be a peer reviewer
- what motivated them to join up
- the characteristics needed to be a peer reviewer.
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: 9 June 2026