Research committee - where to advertise?

[needsomesunshine65]

We are charity that working with planning to commission some research. We are going to advertise for advisors to peer review this research.

I was wondering where is the best place to post the job advert?

By advisors, do you mean researchers who you want to hire to do some work? If yes, jobs.ac.uk

My guess is you are looking more for a steering group to help guide the research. If that’s the case, I think you are looking to engage researchers who are doing similar work, people who work in similar sorts of charities or with similar populations, and also people who have lived experience related to the research topic. In this case, I’d google to find researchers and approach them directly.

Similar with people with lived experience or professional experience in the same charity sector. Use your existing networks to find them and contact them directly.

People tend to not go looking for these sorts of opportunities (they’re a bit of a hassle and extra work), but are more inclined to say yes if asked personally because of their specific expertise.

@mindutopia thanks. That's helpful.

If you mean peer review the applications, you might want to link up with a related charity which already funds research and ask them to email the opportunity to peer review to their network.

@JuliaGoolias thanks. We did previously but we want a bit more independence and variety of expertise and experience I suppose.

It would to advise / review research proposals to look at their academic validity and merit.

I think approaching those we'd want directly is probably the way to go, but we are mindful that then those people would not be eligible to submit their own proposals so it's a bit of a catch 22.

find 2 or 3 academics who you want as advisors. email inviting them to join an 'advisory committee' or 'funding committee' or similar. they will be flattered by a fancy committee title (which is also good for the CV) and might be inclined to join.

if someone says 'no', ask them who they would recommend instead to get more names.

If you want statisticians for research steering committees then statlink is the place to advertise

You might want to look at how to make them eligible to apply e g. Not reviewing their own proposals etc. Depending if this is peer review or the moderating panel.