In November 2017, the faculty management team introduced a compulsory internal peer review scheme at the school to enhance the quality of applications and thereby increase the success rate in relation to the following elite instruments:
The aim of the scheme is to help you as an applicant present your project as strongly as possible to the applicable instrument’s assessors. In the internal peer review process, you get to present you application to three reviewers: one from your own department (preliminary assessor) and two whose key academic competence are unrelated to your own.
The internal peer review panel consists of senior-level academic staff with previous experience as assessors.
As August 2023
The department is responsible for screening the applicants for an internal review and ensure feedback from peers within the applicant’s academic field in good time before the internal peer review takes place. The initial quality assurance at the department will be the responsibility of one of the departments reviewers from the internal peer review panel who will thus act as the preliminary assessor.
As a rule, the internal review will take place three to six weeks before the application deadline. Three reviewers will be used for each application: one from the applicant’s own department (preliminary assessor) and two whose key academic competence are unrelated to the applicant’s. No later than one week before the feedback meeting, the reviewers will receive the most up-to-date version of the application including the applicant’s CV and list of publications with a link to the grant call of the instrument in question and assessment criteria.
Feedback is given to the applicant orally at a meeting which lasts for approximately one hour. The preliminary assessor acts as a facilitator or chairman. The reviewer’s task is to give constructive and specific suggestions for how to improve each part of the application taking into consideration the assessment criteria of the instrument in question.
The departments have chosen a contact person who continuously nominates potential applicants for the different instruments in order to initiate the internal peer review. The contact persons are: