EMCR Forum survey: NHMRC peer review consultation

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) recently undertook a review of the structure of its grant programs. They are now seeking feedback on how best to design a peer review process to support their new grant structure.

The EMCR Forum will be making a submission to this consultation to represent the views of Australia's EMCRs. We invite you to take the following survey, so that your views can be incorporated into the EMCR Forum's submission. Please complete the survey by Monday 20 November. Please share this survey widely.

We also encourage you to write your own submission to the NHMRC's consultation on peer review which is open until 4 December.

Peer Review Parameters

1.What type of information or evidence should the NHMRC use to guide assessment against the following parameters?

Please limit your answers to 150 words.

Track record assessment of individual

Knowledge gain - quality of proposed research

Innovation and creativity of proposed research

Significance - potential of research to advance knowledge and have impact

Synergy - team diversity and collaboration

Feasibility of research - design, skills, experience, access to facilities

Career disruption and relative to opportunity

The NHMRC has policies relating to Career Disruption and Relative to Opportunity.

2.What are the strengths of the current career disruption and relative to opportunity policies and what are the possibilities for improvement?

General

3.Do you have any other comments on the peer review process?

Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey. Please share it widely, so that the EMCR Forum can represent the views of all EMCRs around the country. To stay informed about the opportunities for EMCRs and the activities of the EMCR Forum we invite you to join the EMCR Forum as a member. It is free!