The Peer Review Analysis Committee was established on 1 October 2020 under section 39 of the National Health and Medical Research Council Act 1992, to advise the NHMRC CEO on aspects of the peer review process.
Members of the committee were selected based on the expertise required to analyse the statistical and procedural aspects of peer review and scoring grant applications.
The Peer Review Analysis Committee will advise on issues such as:
- the significance of divergence between scores of independent reviewers and the effect of divergent scores on outcomes
- appropriate methods to identify and manage divergence
- methods for determining final scores for applications within a panel and for final ranked lists from multiple panels
- mechanisms to allow peer reviewers to calibrate their scores against those of other peer reviewers of the same grants.
Committee members
Chair,
Professor
Caroline
Homer
AO
Burnet Institute and University of Technology Sydney
Professor
Emily
Banks
AM
The Australian National University
Professor
Adrian
Barnett
Queensland University of Technology
Professor
Tony
Blakely
The University of Melbourne
Professor
Tanya
Chikritzhs
Curtin University
Professor
Philip
Clarke
The University of Melbourne and University of Oxford
Professor
Peter
Visscher
The University of Queensland
Professor
Tania
Winzenberg
The University of Tasmania