Some of the key findings include:  

• Evidence that ethnic minority researchers are less likely to be funded and, when successful, apply for less funding than white researchers.
• Female applicants are more likely to be successful in funding applications than male applicants, particularly for fellowships. However, successful male applicants apply for more.
• Evidence of modest but significant effects of reviewer and applicant ethnicity on reviewer scores, with white applicants and reviewers giving and receiving higher scores, respectively, compared to ethnic minority applicants and reviewers.
• The make-up of funding panels matters. Female applicants were ranked more favourably than male applicants when at least one of the panellists was female, but less favourably than male applicants when this was not the case.