Register as a Peer Reviewer
NIJ is seeking reviewers to assess grant applications. Learn about:
Becoming a Peer Reviewer for NIJ
The Institute needs reviewers from diverse backgrounds and regions who have relevant expertise and experience in at least one of the following areas:
- Crime control and prevention research.
- Criminology, law enforcement or corrections.
- DNA analysis, research and development.
- Information and sensor technologies.
- Investigative and forensic science and technology.
- Justice systems research.
- Law enforcement technologies.
- Violence and victimization research.
Some reviews are conducted remotely, whereas others involve in-person meetings. Reviewers score 10 to 15 applications within a two-to-four-week period. Before beginning their work, reviewers must participate in an orientation telephone call, which covers the role and responsibilities of the reviewers and the background and purpose of the grant program under review.
Participants receive $125 for each application reviewed.
If you wish to be considered for peer review panels, including future NIJ standing peer review panels, please register on NIJ's Consultant Information System Exit Notice. Thank you for your interest in NIJ's research programs.
NIJ's Pilot Project for "Scientific Review Panels"
For fiscal year 2012, we are piloting new Scientific Review Panels to provide external scientific peer reviews for research applications submitted to NIJ. The Scientific Review Panels will be "standing panels" to which reviewers are appointed to serve for three years. Each Scientific Review Panel will comprise 12 scientific reviewers and six practitioner reviewers who will meet in person each year to review research proposals. Individual Scientific Review Panels will be established to support the social, physical and forensic science programs of NIJ.
NIJ is no longer accepting nominations for FY 2012 Scientific Review Panels. Final selection of SRP members is nearing completion, and all those who have already applied will be notified shortly.
