Peer Review College Newsletter

Winter 2013

Introduction CONTENTS

Welcome to the Winter 2013 issue of the College newsletter. Firstly may we thank you 1. Centres for Doctoral all for your continuing support of EPSRC Peer Review, which this year included the Training – EPSRC’s Centres for Doctoral Training exercise, which is EPSRC’s largest peer review exercise Largest Ever Peer Review to date. Exercise – page 1

We have now completed our latest annual refresh of the College membership, and 2. College Refresh include a list of new members appointed as a result of the exercise. Exercise – page 2

We also include our first articles provided by two of our College members on their 3. Forthcoming Changes experiences as panel members. to the College Member activity report – page 3

Centres for Doctoral Training – EPSRC’s Largest 4. Experiences at an EPSRC Ever Peer Review Exercise panel – page 4 5. Review of Strategic Interview panels on 23rd and 24th October saw the culmination of a major peer review Advice – page 5 exercise for EPSRC to commit £350 million to support Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) across the UK. This is the UK’s largest investment in postgraduate training in 6. Review of Peer Review engineering and physical sciences. It will fund over seventy new Centres for Doctoral – page 5 Training (CDTs), spread across 24 UK universities. 7. Membership Matters Over the two days of interview panels 500 of the UK’s top scientists and engineers, – page 7 many of them EPSRC College members, presented proposals to host Centres for Doctoral Training at their universities. It was not just as applicants that EPSRC 8. Editors End Piece College members were an essential part of the CDT exercise. A total of 587 college – page 8 members provided reviews for the exercise and 58 college members took part in the assessment of proposals as panel members.

Sir Keith Burnett, who oversaw the interview process, commented: “It’s inspiring to see what the engineering and physical sciences community in the UK has to offer. We would like to thank everyone who took part and helped to make this the biggest single peer review exercise EPSRC has ever undertaken. It’s remarkable that so many people were able to come together to discuss the future issues and opportunities around post-graduate training in this way.”

EPSRC-funded Centres for Doctoral Training are based in universities and focus on major research challenges, and the UK’s most important sectors, key technologies and most competitive future markets including aerospace, pharmaceuticals, healthcare technologies, automotive, digital, energy and construction.

PhD students in Centres for Doctoral Training develop strong research skills, gaining both depth and breadth of knowledge. They will have opportunities to undertake multi- disciplinary and collaborative research, with peer to peer learning. Peer Review College Newsletter

EPSRC’s investment in Centres for Doctoral Training was announced by Universities and Science Minister, David Willetts on 22nd November at a press conference at the top of BT Tower in London.

Science Minister David Willetts said: “Scientists and engineers are vital to our economy and society. It is their talent and imagination, as well as their knowledge and skills, that inspire innovation and drive growth across a range of sectors, from manufacturing to financial services.

I am particularly pleased to see strong partnerships between universities, industry and business among the new centres announced today. This type of collaboration is a key element of our industrial strategy and will continue to keep us at the forefront of the global science race.”

College Refresh Exercise

The EPSRC Peer Review College has now successfully completed its second annual refresh. The annual refresh aims to rebalance the college based on the areas of research that applications are being made against and to replace those members who have stepped down. Following this year’s refresh, the college now stands at approximately 4000 members.

During the 2013 refresh exercise we invited almost 400 new members. To date almost 90% have agreed to join the College.

For details of the potential sources of new members please see the Autumn 2011 college newsletter http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/SiteCollectionDocuments/newsletters/ CollegeNewsletterAutumn2011.pdf

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Forthcoming Changes to the College Member activity report

These reports, introduced in 2011, include information on reviews sent to and completed by individual College members, and enables a comparison of performance with the College as a whole. Feedback from College members has been generally very positive. However, following the feedback from our 2013 college survey we have further updated the report format to display this information more clearly. These latest changes will see a split in the various measures shown in the report to better reflect your activities as a college member during the year.

All of the top measures will reflect the number of requests to review issued during the report year and the responses received. For example, if you received five requests to review, responded to three and were unable to complete two, this will be reflected in the first part of the report (Number of Responses by Classification Type) as 60% Usable Responses.

Example completed with test data

The middle section of the reports (not illustrated) will continue to show comparative review scores and panel member scores on your reviews but only for applications where a funding decision was made in the report year. This ensures that a complete set of data is available on each proposal for you to compare. Information on proposals where you have provided a review this year, but the funding decision was made after the end of 2013, will be included in the report covering activity in 2014.

The last section remains unchanged – showing panels attended, training and classifications.

This year’s report will be sent early in March to allow time for reviews which are in progress to be completed and returned.

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Experiences at an EPSRC panel

In this newsletter we are pleased to include the thoughts and experiences of two of our College members who have been part of a review panel in 2013.

Dr Peter Hall is a reader in the department of Computer Science and director of the Media Technology Research Centre, both at the University of Bath. He has been a College member since 2006.

“In June 2013 the EPSRC asked me to sit on an ICT panel. We considered several different types of grant proposal: fellowships, first proposals, and standard responsive mode. Details aside, the mechanics were straightforward. Each proposal was allocated three ‘speakers’ who were to describe the proposal, the reviews, and the response to the panel. The job of the panel was to collate this information into a rank- ordered list, more exactly one list for each proposal type.

I was impressed by both the level of expertise around the table, and the diligence expended. I personally spent some two full days preparing to speak, and others reported a similar effort. The panel stuck to the rules: a description of the proposal was for information only; ranking was based on reviews and responses alone.

We made a real effort to link the comments of the reviewers to the numerical scores they had given. The most useful reviews made this link easy to explain. We also made a real effort to link the investigators response to the reviewer’s comments. There was no preference for any particular structure of response, but content that clearly addressed issues raised tended to be viewed more favourably.

Risking anecdote, it seemed to me that the final outcome was influenced most strongly by the reviews, but that a good response could lift a proposal several ranking places – enough to carry it over the funding threshold. Also, the initial rank ordering made by panel members independently ahead of the meeting correlated well, suggesting some degree of objectivity. Overall, I left the meeting satisfied the panel acts as fairly as it can.”

Dr Ioannis Ieropoulos is an Associate Professor in the Bristol Robotics Laboratory at the University of the West of England. He has been a College member since 2010 and attended his first panel meeting this March.

“The peer review prioritisation panel was an extremely useful and important experience, since it allowed me to take part in the decision-making process at the Panel level, and has therefore provided invaluable insight.

The whole process is efficient and professional and I particularly appreciated the opportunity to declare any conflicts of interest with any one of the proposals for assessment, which was carried through to the Panel Meeting, where the relevant panel member was kindly asked to leave the room. The Meeting Organisers were very responsive to queries raised, especially when key documents were absent from the large hard-copy files due to late responses from applicants or when email firewall problems prevented secure communication, which was extremely useful for a new member of the panel.

As a commitment it was rather heavy, due to the number of proposals that we had to assess, but the process of assessment and the systematic paperwork were efficient and sufficiently comprehensive, to make it easier for us and feasible to complete

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within the timeline given. I very much appreciated the opportunity to meet with peers from different parts of the UK, who are renowned authorities in their respective fields, and with whom we shared as common ground, the Panel topic.

The last stage of proposal prioritisation was the most challenging, since this is the stage where the decision* is made to fund only a small number of successful proposals from a total of largely high-quality submissions.”

[*Editor’s note – the panel makes a funding recommendation]

In Brief - Reviews Earlier this year EPSRC announced its decision to commission two independent reviews: one to look at how EPSRC obtains strategic advice to help it develop effective policies, and one to evaluate our overall peer-review processes.

Review of Strategic Advice

In December 2012, EPSRC Chair, Dr Paul Golby, commissioned a review of EPSRC’s strategic advice routes led by Dr Suzanne Fortier, Past President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Canada. The review was conducted during spring 2013 and its conclusions and recommendations were presented to the EPSRC Council in July 2013.

Following the presentation of the review to Council, a Council sub-group worked over the summer to develop an action plan to support the recommendations. Input from members of EPSRC’s Strategic Advice Network (SAN) and Strategic Advice Teams (SATs) was taken into account when developing the action plan, which the sub-group presented to Council on 15-16 October 2013. The recommendations within the action plan were fully accepted by Council. The action plan can be accessed at: http://www. epsrc.ac.uk/SiteCollectionDocuments/press-release-documents/ActionPlan.pdf

Review of Peer Review

The review of the EPSRC peer review process commenced in July and will report to EPSRC Council in December. The Panel comprises of: • Professor Dame Julia Goodfellow – University of Kent (Panel Chair) • Mr David Eyton – BP plc • Dr Angelika Kalt – Swiss National Science Foundation • Professor Matt Rosseinsky – University of Liverpool • Professor James Stirling – University of Cambridge

The areas to be covered as part of the review include: To examine the extent to which peer review is at the heart of EPSRC decision making: To examine how EPSRC seeks peer review advice and from whom: To examine how this advice is used to inform funding decisions: To assess the level of transparency, cost effectiveness and extent of community ownership including a comparison with the processes used by other research councils. For further details please see: http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/newsevents/news/2013/ Pages/independentreviewofpeerreview.aspx

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Membership Matters

Congratulations EPSRC extends its warmest congratulations to the following College member on his award of one of only six new Royal Society Industry Fellowships aimed at strengthening links between academia and industry. Professor Christopher Smales, University of Kent

Keeping in Touch We include a list of college members we have lost contact with in the ‘Gone Away’ section of the newsletter. This may be for a variety of reasons, so to avoid this we would remind you: · If your circumstances change please update your record, particularly your contact details on Je-S; · If you no longer wish to remain a college member then please let us know, at [email protected] so we don’t continue to send you reviews you may not wish to consider · If you move organisations please do not create a new record on Je-S, but update your existing one. A new record will not include your college membership and reviewing history. · Some people are shown as ‘Gone Away’, even when they clearly haven’t moved. This is usually due to problems with e-mail delivery, where our attempts to contact you fail, often by being blocked by your organisation’s firewall. As college members you can try to prevent this by identifying EPSRC as a recognised safe organisation, and also doing the same for the UK SBS who now issue many e-mails on our behalf.

Reviewer Requests One query for which we receive several variants is concerning College members who are not receiving reviews. We previously touched on Panel membership in the Summer Newsletter, but there are still some cases of College members not being used to provide reviews. If you think you have this problem then please consider the following: · Are your contact details correct on Je-S? Not only does an incorrect email usually prevent us from contacting you, but an incorrect affiliation can cause a perceived conflict of interest, and may prevent us from using you as a reviewer. · Is your research expertise still correctly indicated on Je-S? You should complete your expertise Classification with your current Research Areas, including a Primary area and also use the free text description where appropriate. An accurate indication of your expertise is essential since it is how we will identify the most appropriate proposals for you to review. For newer members this should not be a problem, since your Welcome letter will include these instructions, but for established members please check that your details are still present and correct. If there is no information concerning your expertise then we are unlikely to be able to select you as a reviewer, and this is considered as grounds to terminate College membership.

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· Have you previously marked yourself on Je-S as Unavailable, without an end date entered? If this is the case then you will appear to be permanently unavailable and you will not be visible to select as a reviewer. It is important that you ensure that your Je-S account details are up to date as EPSRC staff are not able to amend Je-S account details on your behalf. Updating your information is a straightforward process on Je-S, and further information on how to update your details is available at http://je-s.rcuk.ac.uk/Handbook/index.htm If the above has previously been correctly completed then you may, of course, contact us at [email protected] and we will investigate further.

Gone Away If you are still in contact with anyone listed below please could you ask them to check that their contact details in Je-S are correct and up to date. If they believe these are correct, so that we should be able to contact them, or if they no longer wish to remain a college member, they should contact us at [email protected] Professor Mark Baker, previously at the University of Reading Dr Andrew Bayly, previously at Procter and Gamble Ltd Dr AC Bentham, previously at Pfizer, Global Research & Development Mr Christophe Chassaing, previously at Pfizer, Pharmaceutical Research & Development Dr M Denyer, previously at the University of Bradford Dr David Farrar, previously at Smith and Nephew Dr Pamela Farries, previously at the University of Oxford Dr Paul Ferguson, previously at Pfizer, Global Research & Development Professor Neil Halliwell, previously at Loughborough University Mr Keith Harris, previously at Hewlett Packard Laboratories Mr Stephen Johnston, previously at BAE systems Dr Michael Lyons, previously at BT Group Professor Paolo Mazzoldi, previously at the University of Padua Dr Stuart McCallum, previously at BAE systems Dr Angus Nedderman, previously at Pfizer, Global Research & Development Dr David Penfold, previously at The Carbon Trust Dr Iman Poernomo, previously at Kings College London Dr Robert Potter, previously at Johnson Matthey Plc Professor John Price, previously at EADS UK Ltd Dr Paul Richards, previously at Innospec Inc Mr Domingo Ruiz, previously at Airbus UK Professor Francis Rumsey, previously at Logophon Ltd Dr E Sharp, previously at the University of Bradford Dr Alan Silcock, previously at Pfizer, Global Research & Development Dr Jonathan Smith, previously at Pfizer, Global Research & Development Dr Andrew Stove, previously at Defence and Mission Systems Domain Dr R Tasker, previously at STFC Laboratories Dr Jane Wibley, previously at Syngenta Mrs Pat Wright, previously at Pfizer, Global Research & Development

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Editor’s End-Piece

It’s Goodbye from Him Rather more than three years ago I was asked to take on the role of editor of the College Newsletter. I accepted this with some trepidation, a fairly hazy view of the newsletters purpose - other than that it should be interesting and informative, and a real concern about where I would find sufficient content for it. Now I am in turn passing this role on. Looking back I have been fortunate that I have been doing this over a period where events have ensured a ready supply of content. I hope I have managed to make it interesting and informative but leave that for you to decide. Angela Grigsby, a very experienced colleague, has taken on the mantle - no doubt with very similar feelings to those I experienced – but will I am sure do an excellent job. I have enjoyed producing these newsletters although one regret for me was that the volume of content generated here limited my ability to include views from college members. In this, her first issue, Angela has been able to start to redress this and I hope you will support her in this going forward and, if asked, contribute views for inclusion.

Paul

And Hello from Me I joined EPSRC in 1998 and have now been involved with the College for almost one year. During this time I have sought to deal with many of your day to day queries to familiarise myself with your expectations. Hopefully I am now in a position to offer some general hints and tips to help with the process, although I appreciate that I still have lots to learn!

Thank you again for all your efforts, both in standard and exceptional peer review, and for providing feedback on a variety of subjects, including the review of peer review. This issue of the newsletter includes the panel experiences of two College members, and I hope we will be able to include more content from College members in the future. Your suggestions for the content of the newsletter are always welcome since we want it to be interesting and useful for you specifically as College members. If you have any suggestions then please let us know at [email protected] and we will see what we can do.

On behalf of the College Management team may I wish you all a peaceful Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

Angela: [email protected]

Further Information Details about EPSRC and the peer review process may be found at Polaris House http://www.epsrc.ac.uk. 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