INDEPENDENT SCRUTINY
External review status
A transparent distinction between invitation, feedback, professional review and peer review.
Review sought
- Conceptual and terminology review from relevant academic disciplines
- Methods review covering testability, confounding, measurement and bias
- Ethics and data-protection review before any participant research
- Legal and equality review for applied policy proposals
- Lived-experience and practitioner challenge where proposals affect people or services
Publication rule
Material feedback should be logged with the reviewer’s permitted attribution, scope, date, response and resulting revision. Private correspondence will not be published without permission. Silence, contact or informal comment will not be represented as endorsement.