The acceptability of using a lottery to allocate research funding: a survey of applicants

Table 2 Overall survey response rate and responses by time period and funding outcome

Time period* / Outcome	Response rate
2013 to 2018	30% (76 of 251)
Declined by the panel	24% (48 of 199)
Fundable but not funded by lottery	36% (5 of 14)
Funded by lottery	61% (23 of 38)
2019 (Outcome not available)	68% (50 of 74)

*All applicants of the 2013 to 2018 period were emailed in September 2018 (and were aware of the funding allocation), while the 2019 applicants were emailed in January 2019 (and were not aware of the allocation)