Virtual Roundtable on Peer Review at User Facilities

The Society for Science at User Research Facilities (SSURF) invites you to attend a virtual roundtable on Equitable and Effective Peer Review at User Facilities at 12pm Central on Tuesday, October 29, 2024. Register here.

User facilities rely on peer review to help prioritize user research proposals for resource allocation, but the process is resource-intensive and prone to bias. By optimizing their peer-review processes, user facilities can improve their efficiency and ensure that researchers receive fair and equitable access.

In this session we will hear about efforts at several user facilities to improve their peer review processes. The session will include short presentations from panelists from the Advanced Light Source, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory and the Canadian Light Source. Presentations will be followed by a roundtable discussion to identify common challenges and share innovations for improving peer review at user facilities.

The Roundtable will be led by Alison J. Hatt, PhD who presented on this topic at the 2024 SSURF Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. Her presentation was informative and compelling, resulting in requests to continue the discussion with the SSURF network.

This is a live-only event and won’t be available for later viewing, please RSVP today.

This is one of several virtual roundtables hosted by the Society for Science at User Research Facilities (SSURF). The goal of these roundtables is to convene stakeholders and experts within the user facility ecosystem to share best practices, challenges, aspirations and ideas to leverage and increase the impacts of technologies within the nation’s network of user facilities across various federal agencies. See previous Roundtables on SSURF’s YouTube channel.