We equip our member charities with guidance to ensure they’re supporting the best research and researchers.
We provide more detailed guidance on each of our mandatory requirements for Full members below.
Our member charities are required to publish a research strategy, setting out their priorities in the research they wish to fund and why. A good research strategy is clear, comprehensive and kept under regular review. Our guidance outlines the key areas to cover when developing a research strategy.
Our member charities are required to have a written policy on how to deal with conflicts of interest in scientific advisory panels. A good policy identifies potential conflicts of interest and sets out how to record and manage them. Our guidance contains a model policy that members can adapt to their own organisation’s needs.
Peer review is a way of assessing the quality of scientific ideas. Regardless of their size, all our members must use a rigorous expert review process to select which research to fund. Our members must abide by our six principles of expert review when awarding research funding.
Whether our member charities fund research using animals or whether they focus funding on other areas of medical research, all of them stand together. Our members must...
Find out more in our guidance on using animals in research and associated guidance.
Your charity must endorse our position statement on the importance of involvement in medical research.
The above mandatory requirements are reviewed at application stage and in our audit of existing members which takes place every five years.
We assess charities’ expert review processes when they apply for membership and audit it every five years.
Members are also required to submit their research expenditure and grant data to AMRC every year.