STFC Astronomy Grants Panel (AGP)

Role of the AGP

The panel's role is to:

• Assess and make recommendations to the STFC executive on all research grant applications in astronomy, including space science and solar terrestrial physics covering theory, exploitation and basic technology research.
  
  
• Take account (as appropriate) of the recommendations of external referees and the conclusions of specialist peer review panels, particularly the proposed standard grants sub-panel. The panel may additionally convene panels to advise on new or substantially modified rolling grants, contiguous groups of research requests (such as those related to exploiting a major facility or instrument investment), or research requests which are judged (on the basis of cost or propriety) to warrant such separate, in-depth assessment.
  
  
• Advise the Particle Physics, Astronomy and Nuclear Physics Science Committee (PPAN) and the executive as required on all issues relating to research grants, including monitoring the level of funding allocated to grants.
  
  
• Carry out such other tasks associated with peer review as the executive might require.

Membership

• Prof M Cruise (Chair) - University of Birmingham

Rolling Grant Specialist Panel

• Dr P Bland - Imperial College London
• Dr S Calcutt - University of Oxford
• Dr I Franchi - Open University
• Prof M E Jones - University of Oxford
• Prof V Nakariakov - University of Warwick
• Prof I Smail - University of Durham
• Prof P A Thomas - Universtiy of Sussex
  

AGP: Astronomy Observation

• Prof T Marsh (Chair) - University of Warwick
• Dr O Almaini - University of Nottingham
• Prof C Collins - Liverpool John Moores University
• Prof S Driver - University of St Andrews
• Dr M Hoare - University of Leeds
• Prof A Zijlstra - University of Manchester

AGP: Astronomy Theory

• Prof R Nelson (Chair) - Queen Mary, University of London
• Prof B K Gibson - University of Central Lancashire
• Dr J Vink - Armagh Observatory
• Prof D Wands - University of Portsmouth

AGP: Solar Studies & STP

• Dr T S Horbury (Chair) - Imperial College London
• Dr D S Brown - University of Wales, Aberystwyth
• Dr E Kontar - University of Glasgow
• Dr C E Parnell - University of St Andrews

AGP: Planetary Studies

• Prof P Read (Chair) - University of Oxford
• Dr E J Bunce - University of Leicester
• Dr M Lee - University of Glasgow
• Prof J P Muller - University College London /Mullard Space Sciences Laboratory
• Prof C Murray - Queen Mary, University of London