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Reviewer Development Scheme registration form

If you are interested in joining our Reviewer Development Scheme, please complete the registration form below (eligibility criteria applies). 

For more experienced researchers and professionals interested in reviewing, please register to join our NIHR community of reviewers.

Your information will be held on our secure REsearch Awards Lifecycle Management System (REALMS) so that we can contact you when a suitable reviewing opportunity arises.

If you have any other queries about your eligibility to join the scheme or how to fill out this form, please contact us at reviewing@nihr.ac.uk

Where you write longer answers in the form, you can drag the bottom right-hand corner of the form field to expand the size.

Section 1

Your contact details

Section 2

Your current training/training award

Please provide details of your current training by completing the appropriate section for the type of training you are receiving or how it is funded.

Term of training/training award

Please state the start and end dates of your current training/training award.

NIHR training awards

Training within NIHR and MRC Infrastructure and NIHR Schools

If your training award is funded via the NIHR or Medical Research Council (MRC) Infrastructure and Capacity Building centres, please indicate which type of centre you are associated with.

MRC funded researchers

If your training award is funded through MRC please select the type of award from the drop down menu.

NIHR Associates and MRC postdoctoral researchers

If your training award is funded as part of an NIHR or MRC research project, please give the research programme, reference number and title of the NIHR or MRC research project your training is funded by.

Health and Care Research Wales-funded personal award 

If your training award is funded through Health and Care Research Wales, please detail the type of award.

Nurses, Midwives and Specialist Registrars

Please indicate if you are a Nurse, Midwife or Specialist Registrar
Section 3

Health area expertise

Please tick up to five health areas that you consider yourself to be an expert in and would be confident to review

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
Please also indicate if you are one of the following

Reviewer biography

Please use the space below to briefly tell us more about yourself. This could include your research areas, recent published work, methodological expertise, and any interests or personal experiences that may be relevant. If you have an ORCID iD please also state this here.

Section 4

How did you hear about us?

Please tell us how you heard about joining our Reviewer Development Scheme
Section 5

Confidentiality and Data protection

NIHR Reviewer Development Scheme members 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.

View the NIHR Peer Reviewer Confidentiality Agreement

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 have completed. If you would prefer us not to publish your details, please indicate this by ticking below:

By completing this form you are agreeing to your details being added to REsearch Awards Lifecycle Management System (REALMS) database. 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 except specifically as detailed above without your consent except 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. You can ask for your details to be removed from our database at any time. 

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