Table 1.
Description of contents of each of the three survey sections.
Fig 1.
Diagram to show response rates.
Quality = respondent identified as not being the correct person to complete the survey and did not provide complete responses. Funding organisations could provide more than one response (for different research programmes). Duplicates = There were multiple entries for a research programme. These were merged so that there was only one entry per research programme.
Fig 2.
A typical decision-making pathway and percentage of respondents that use the process.
Total number of survey responses = 29 (two entries were blank so not included in analysis).
Fig 3.
Assessment criteria based on mean scores for importance.
1 = not important and 4 = very important; * denotes those criteria that averaged a median score of 4; Total number of survey responses = 31.
Fig 4.
Types of different processes used.
Variations to typical processes and approaches that had some uptake from funding organisations and Venn diagram to show percentage of research programmes who use typical, variations to typical and innovative approaches (from total survey sample of = 29). * This process had interest but not uptake (within the survey sample).