The Royal Society Endorsement for Global Talent (Peer Review)

For a Global Talent (Peer Review) Endorsement application, applicants must work in an approved research discipline. Here, we will look at who the endorsement application must be made to and which particular research disciplines are available to the applicant.

The applicant's field will determine which body the application must be made to:

1. British Academy - for humanities and social science

2. Royal Society - for science and medicine

3. Royal Academy of Engineering – (yes you guessed it) for engineering

The Royal Society Endorsement

All applicants must work in an approved research discipline. If the Home Office approved list does not have a research discipline which covers the applicant’s specialist field then they will not be able to make the application. However, given the list is quite extensive, it is likely at least one of the approved research disciplines would be applicable:

Anatomy, Physiology, Neurosciences, Health and Human Sciences	Astronomy and Physics, Theoretical Physics, and Applied Physics
​Animal and Human Physiology and Anatomy Behavioural Neuroscience Cellular Neuroscience Development and Control of Behaviour Endocrinology and Reproduction (non-clinical) Experimental Psychology Pharmacology (non-clinical) Physiology (non-clinical) (including biophysics of cells) Physiology and Medicine (non-clinical)	Astronomy Astrophysics Biophysics Computational Physics Condensed Matter (including softmatter, liquids and nano-materials) Cosmic Radiation Cosmology Crystallography Elementary Particle Physics Gravitation Interstellar Medium Lasers and Optoelectronics Low temperature physics Magnetism Mathematical and theoretical physics Mathematical Astronomy Mathematical Astrophysics Mathematical Cosmology Mathematical Gravitation Nuclear Atomic and Molecular Physics Physics (Applied) Physics (Experimental) Planetary Science Plasma Physics Quantum Theory Semi-conductors Solar Physics Statistical
Biochemistry, Molecular Cell Biology and Structural Biology	Chemistry, Applied Chemistry and Theoretical Chemistry
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Biophysics and Structural Biology Cell Biology (including molecular cell biology) Molecular Immunology Molecular Microbiology	​Applied Chemistry Biological Chemistry General Chemistry Inorganic Chemistry Materials Chemistry Organic Chemistry Physical Chemistry Theoretical Chemistry
Computer Science	Developmental Biology, Genetics (excluding population genetics), Immunology and Microbiology (excluding medical microbiology)
Artificial Intelligence Databases Human-computing interaction Machine Learning New computational paradigms (quantum, biological)	Cellular and Humoral Immunology Cellular Pathology Cytogenetics Developmental Biology Epidemiology (non-clinical) General Microbiology (including Bacteriology and Virology) Genetics (excluding population genetics) Immunology
Earth Sciences and Environmental Physical Sciences	Engineering, Technology, Instrumentation, Material Science and Experimental Fluid Dynamics
Archaeology Atmospheric Chemistry Atmospheric Physics and Meteorology Chemical Oceanography Climate Sciences Geochemistry Geodesy Geology Geophysics Hydrology Limnology Mineralogy Physical Geography Physical Oceanography Seismology	Aeronautical Chemical Civil Communications (including information theory) Computing Engineering (including software) Control (including robotics) Electrical Electronics Electric Power Environmental Fluid Dynamics General Instrumentation Materials Science (including materials engineering) Mechanical Medical Nuclear Technology Opto-Electronic (including fibre optics components, lasers, optical computing, optical imagining and optical microscopy) Semi-Conductors Space Technology Structural
Health and Human Sciences	Organismal, Evolutionary and Ecological Science, including soils and agriculture
Medical Instrumentation Medical Microbiology Medical Statistics and Demography Molecular Medicine Nutrition	Agricultural Science Biological Modelling Biological Statistics Ecology Entomology Environmental Biology Ethology Evolution Organismal Animal Biology (including invertebrate and vertebrate Zoology) Palaeozoology Parasitology Plant Sciences/Botany Population Genetics Soil Science Taxonomy and Systematics
Pure and Applied Mathematics, Computer Science	Those conducting Clinical research to include the following disciplines:
Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Mechanics (Theoretical and Applied) Pure Mathematics Statistics and Operational Research	Anaesthetics Emergency Medicine Cardiology Dental Dermatology Endocrinology Gastroenterology General Practice Genetics (related to Human Health) Haematology Hepatology Histopathology Immunology (related to Human Health) Infectious diseases and Tropical Medicine Infection/Microbiology Medical Education Medical Statistics Microbiology (related to Human Health) Nephrology Neurology Obstetrics and Gynaecology Occupational Medicine Oncology Paediatrics and Child Health Palliative Medicine Pathology Pharmacology Physicians/Medicine Psychiatry Public Health and Epidemiology Radiology Respiratory Rheumatology Surgery Urology Virology

If you are considering making a Global Talent Peer Review endorsement application to The Royal Society, one of our experienced immigration advisors will be able to guide you through the process.