■资助委员会，由具有广泛知识的成员组成，技能,和经验，被认为是资助组织推荐或分配研究经费的决策过程的组成部分。然而,调查决策过程的研究有限，在资助委员会会议期间，成员的角色及其社会互动进行了虚拟和面对面的交流。
■使用混合方法设计并遵循网络描记术原理，该研究观察了在2020年10月至2021年12月期间几乎进行的9次国家卫生与护理研究所项目资助委员会会议;补充了对委员会主席和成员(18次访谈)以及NIHR工作人员(12次访谈)的访谈;一项在线调查(50份回复);和文献分析.通过沉浸式期刊进行的个人反思也构成了分析的一部分。
■从观察中确定了三个主要主题，采访,和在线调查：虚拟委员会会议的效率(筹备的重要性，以及形式的作用，process,和结构)；了解虚拟委员会会议对福祉的影响(疲劳和忧虑的影响，以及工作生活平衡的重要性)；理解社交互动和参与度(参与度，贡献和包容性，意识到无意识偏见和社交网络的价值)。
■检查一个资助组织在多个研究计划中的决策实践，在过去一年的多个委员会会议上，围绕资助委员会的实践产生了新的见解，这些见解是以前的研究无法探索或调查的。总的来说,有人指出，公平和透明的供资建议和成果可以通过虚拟供资委员会来实现。然而,虽然虚拟资助委员会有很多好处和机会，例如增加成员多样性和包容性的潜力，更环保，需要更多的证据来评估它们的有效性，特别关注疲劳问题，订婚,和委员会的凝聚力，特别是当新的委员会成员加入时。
UNASSIGNED: Funding committees, comprising members with a range of knowledge, skills, and experience, are considered integral to the decision-making process of funding organisations for recommending or allocating research funding. However, there is limited research investigating the decision-making processes, the role of members and their social interactions during funding committee meetings conducted both virtually and face-to-face.
UNASSIGNED: Using a mixed-methods design and following netnography principles, the
study observed nine National Institute for Health and Care Research programmes funding committee meetings conducted virtually during October 2020 to December 2021; complemented by interviews with committee chairs and members (18 interviews) and NIHR staff (12 interviews); an online survey (50 responses); and documentary analysis. Personal reflections through immersive journals also formed part of the analysis.
UNASSIGNED: Three main themes were identified from the observations, interviews, and online survey: efficiency of virtual committee meetings (importance of preparation, and the role of formality, process, and structure); understanding the effect of virtual committee meetings on well-being (effects of fatigue and apprehension, and the importance of work life balance); understanding social interactions and engagement (levels of engagement, contribution and inclusivity, awareness of unconscious bias and the value of social networking).
UNASSIGNED: Examining the decision-making practices of one funding organisation across several research programmes, across multiple committee meetings over one year has generated new insights around funding committee practices that previous studies have not been able to explore or investigate. Overall, it was observed that fair and transparent funding recommendations and outcomes can be achieved through virtual funding committees. However, whilst virtual funding committees have many benefits and opportunities, such as the potential to increase membership diversity and inclusivity, and be more environmentally sustainable, more evidence is needed to evaluate their effectiveness, with particular focus on issues of fatigue, engagement, and committee cohesion, especially when new committee members join.
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