Peer reviewer application form

Register now to join our growing peer reviewer community. Help shape our research portfolio and improve public health, social care and practice in the NHS.

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Reviewer profile

Health area expertise

Please tick up to 5 health areas that you consider yourself to be an expert in and would be confident to review:
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Methodological expertise

Please tick the primary methodological expertise areas that you consider yourself to be an expert in, would be confident to review, and could apply across multiple clinical areas:
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Reviewer biography

How did you hear about us?

Please tell us how you heard about becoming an NIHR reviewer

Reviewing specific research opportunities

Confidentiality and Data protection

NIHR External Peer Reviewers are asked to abide by the NIHR Peer Reviewer Confidentiality Agreement. Please read the confidentiality document and tick the box below to commit to this agreement.

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We publish an annual list of reviewers who have completed a review for us during the past year. If you are asked to review, your contribution as a reviewer will be acknowledged on our website as a gesture of our appreciation. We will only list your name, and ensure that there is no indication of the reviewing task that you completed. If you would prefer us not to publish your name, please indicate this by ticking below.

Use of your personal information

By completing this form you are agreeing to your details being added to our databases.

Your personal information is held and used in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation 2016 (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act (2018). The Department of Health and Social Care, NIHR is the Data Controller under GDPR. Under GDPR, we have a legal duty to protect any information we collect from you.

You should be aware that information given to us might be shared with other DHSC NIHR bodies for the purposes of statistical analysis and other DHSC NIHR management purposes. We also reserve the right to share details of research applications with other approved research funding organisations outside the NIHR in order to coordinate research activity in the UK. Information collected from you will not be passed to any third party outside the NIHR without your consent, except specifically as detailed above, or where we are under a statutory obligation or entitled to do so by law.

Applicants may be assured that DHSC NIHR is committed to protecting privacy and to processing all personal information in a manner that meets the requirements of GDPR.

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