Request for a Review of an Assessment
During the Rejoinder period, the participants and RO staff may identify an assessment that contains inappropriate elements, as detailed below, and may wish to have this reviewed by the RGS, on behalf of the funding entity.
The following criteria may be considered for a review:
- Defamatory comment/s
- Evidence of assessor conflict of interest
- Evidence of assessor breach of confidentiality
- Discriminatory/biased comments
- Scores included within the assessment text
- Assessment text that refers to a different application in error
- Comments in the assessment regarding application eligibility
- Other
Additional information regarding quality assessments can be found on the ARC’s Peer Review Resources page, including the definition of a quality assessment and examples of good and bad assessments.
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