Following the 2008 evaluation of the Peer Review College, NERC recruited a group of Peer Review College chairs who have specific responsibility for leading all of the discovery science assessment and moderating panels. Chairs normally serve for a term of four years.
The current Peer Review College chairs are:
- Professor William Austin, University of St Andrews
- Professor Jenni Barclay, University of East Anglia
- Professor Stuart Bearhop, University of Exeter
- Professor Gary Bending, The University of Warwick
- Professor Mark Brandon, Open University
- Professor Isabella Capellini, Queen’s University, Belfast
- Professor Sofia Consuegra del Olmo, Swansea University
- Professor Rob Freckleton, University of Sheffield
- Professor Daren Gooddy, NERC British Geological Survey
- Professor Hayley Fowler, Newcastle University
- Professor Mark Hodson, University of York
- Professor Madeleine Humphreys, Durham University
- Professor Melanie Leng, NERC British Geological Survey
- Professor Mark Lester, University of Leicester
- Professor Brice Rea, University of Aberdeen
- Professor Carol Robinson, University of East Anglia
- Professor Zongbo Shi, University of Birmingham
- Dr Louise Sime, NERC British Antarctic Survey
- Professor Paula Stockley, University of Liverpool
- Professor Seirian Sumner, University College London
- Professor Jaime Toney, University of Glasgow
- Professor Nia Whiteley, Bangor University