Understandably, then, panellists find themselves using the present tense to keep listeners from peeling off, even though they're talking about past events.
Responding panellists self-selected themselves into one of five 'stakeholder' groups: clinical academic (CA), (20%); non-CA (NCA), (28%); member of the public (MP), (17%); research manager or funding/commissioning body employee (RM), (24%); or occupying multiple roles (MR), (11%).
Responding panellists self-selected themselves into one of five 'stakeholder' groups, as outlined in table 3. High levels of expertise were reported by panellists (table 4), but despite high levels of expertise, fewer than half (n=134; 48%) had undergone formal training relevant to PI in health and social care research.
Katie Taylor, the BBC executive editor who commisisoned the show, said: "It's great to welcome so many comics and top musicians, many who have proven themselves as Buzzcocks panellists in the past, to the host hot seat.
Ding dong!" Apart from the pilot, where the panellists used various objects to draw attention to themselves, two episodes have not used a buzzer system: "Denial & Deprivation" and "Green".
The methodology and the guidelines themselves were found to be useful and appropriate by the panellists.
The panellists were in consensus that a hybrid measure of indicators identified by themselves and the participants should be used in a tool to assess research performance.
The panellists also demonstrated that routes into such a career are as diverse as the media themselves.
Then along came television and, in 1950, What's My Line?, a family game show on which movie stars found themselves obliged to guest as "mystery challengers", putting on mock accents to fool the blindfolded panellists seeking to guess their identity.
Ultimately, no matter how much power is given to first responders, or how differently the aid is disbursed, the panellists concluded that the focus must be on turning fragile states into resilient states – able to cope themselves with environmental, economic and social shocks.
