Future of Peer Review

DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO IMPROVING PEER REVIEW

Peer review remains the primary means by which we ensure the quality of research grants and outputs. However, no system is perfect. Peer review could be improved, and there are different schools of thought on how this could be achieved.

This event – hosted jointly by UKRN and the Research on Research Institute – will include a series of talks that outline approaches that, in part, reflect these different schools of thought. A panel discussion will enable participants and speakers to explore the commonalities, differences and implications of these approaches.

Programme (GMT+1)

13:00 Welcome and introduction – Tom Stafford

13:05 Four schools of peer review – Helen Buckley Woods

13:15 Quality and reproducibility: open research – Emily Chenette

13:30 Democracy and transparency: open peer review and post-publication review – Rebecca Lawrence

13:45 Equity and inclusion: double-blind peer review – Kim Eggleton

14:00 Efficiency and incentives: portable peer review, journal-independent review – Chris Chambers

14:15 Break (15 minutes)

14:30 Panel discussion

15:00 End

Additional information is available on the UKRN website.