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Table 2.

Participant and organisational profile across hybrid forums

Hybrid forum	Organisational context and representation	Participant roles and expertise	Geographical context	Workshop format and composition	Methodological contribution
ROIA	Five ROI-based arts and cultural organisations, including theatres and arts venues	Participants held marketing, audience development, operational, strategic and leadership roles across regional and city-based organisations Cohorts included middle-management workshops, senior leadership workshops, mixed-role regional cohorts and expert/intermediary participants from audience development, local authority and research organisations	Republic of Ireland; city and regional organisations including Dublin, Cork, Galway, Wexford, Longford and Limerick	Online workshop with participants drawn from five separate organisations	Enabled early exploration of organisational concerns surrounding data practices, operational pressures and organisational sustainability
ROIB	Four ROI-based arts organisations including theatres and cultural venues	Participants working in a more senior position across marketing and organisational coordination functions	Republic of Ireland; city and regional organisations	Online workshop with cross-organisational participation	Extended discussion of staffing pressures, resource constraints and organisational resilience
UK workshop	Four UK-based arts organisations including theatres and arts centres	Participants occupying strategic, marketing and operational roles varying in seniority but with extensive years of experience in their position	England and Northern Ireland	Online workshop bringing together participants from multiple organisational contexts	Surfaced recurring concerns surrounding digital practices, organisational change and infrastructural pressures
Northern Ireland In-Person Forum	15 organisations including theatres, orchestras, festivals, arts centres and intermediary organisations	Cross-sector participants including organisational leaders, venue staff, marketing professionals and intermediary actors located in NI	Northern Ireland	In-person forum involving 23 participants and cross-sector discussion	Generated rich interactional and collaborative data relating to collective concern articulation and organisational negotiation
Partner forum	Infrastructure and intermediary organisations supporting arts and cultural organisations	Participants occupying advisory, infrastructure and sector-support roles	UK and ROI-linked infrastructure organisations	Hybrid workshop combining sector partners and organisational stakeholders	Introduced infrastructural and intermediary perspectives on benchmarking, reporting and organisational support practices
Pricing workshop	Arts organisations and infrastructure stakeholders across UK and ROI contexts	Participants working across marketing, audience development, organisational leadership and operational management with an interest in the practice of dynamic pricing	UK and ROI participation across theatres, arts centres and cultural organisations	Hybrid workshop using pricing scenarios and collaborative exercises	Enabled participants to collectively reflect on benchmarking, pricing tensions, organisational value and sustainability pressures
Benchmarking workshop	Arts organisations and sector stakeholders engaged in data and benchmarking discussions	Participants occupying strategic, operational and infrastructure-related roles with experience in grant applications and conducting evaluations	England, Wales and ROI participation	Hybrid workshop structured around collaborative benchmarking exercises	Supported exploration of future organisational responses to benchmarking practices, data infrastructures and changing evaluative demands

Hybrid forum	Organisational context and representation	Participant roles and expertise	Geographical context	Workshop format and composition	Methodological contribution
ROIA	Five ROI-based arts and cultural organisations, including theatres and arts venues	Participants held marketing, audience development, operational, strategic and leadership roles across regional and city-based organisations Cohorts included middle-management workshops, senior leadership workshops, mixed-role regional cohorts and expert/intermediary participants from audience development, local authority and research organisations	Republic of Ireland; city and regional organisations including Dublin, Cork, Galway, Wexford, Longford and Limerick	Online workshop with participants drawn from five separate organisations	Enabled early exploration of organisational concerns surrounding data practices, operational pressures and organisational sustainability
ROIB	Four ROI-based arts organisations including theatres and cultural venues	Participants working in a more senior position across marketing and organisational coordination functions	Republic of Ireland; city and regional organisations	Online workshop with cross-organisational participation	Extended discussion of staffing pressures, resource constraints and organisational resilience
UK workshop	Four UK-based arts organisations including theatres and arts centres	Participants occupying strategic, marketing and operational roles varying in seniority but with extensive years of experience in their position	England and Northern Ireland	Online workshop bringing together participants from multiple organisational contexts	Surfaced recurring concerns surrounding digital practices, organisational change and infrastructural pressures
Northern Ireland In-Person Forum	15 organisations including theatres, orchestras, festivals, arts centres and intermediary organisations	Cross-sector participants including organisational leaders, venue staff, marketing professionals and intermediary actors located in NI	Northern Ireland	In-person forum involving 23 participants and cross-sector discussion	Generated rich interactional and collaborative data relating to collective concern articulation and organisational negotiation
Partner forum	Infrastructure and intermediary organisations supporting arts and cultural organisations	Participants occupying advisory, infrastructure and sector-support roles	UK and ROI-linked infrastructure organisations	Hybrid workshop combining sector partners and organisational stakeholders	Introduced infrastructural and intermediary perspectives on benchmarking, reporting and organisational support practices
Pricing workshop	Arts organisations and infrastructure stakeholders across UK and ROI contexts	Participants working across marketing, audience development, organisational leadership and operational management with an interest in the practice of dynamic pricing	UK and ROI participation across theatres, arts centres and cultural organisations	Hybrid workshop using pricing scenarios and collaborative exercises	Enabled participants to collectively reflect on benchmarking, pricing tensions, organisational value and sustainability pressures
Benchmarking workshop	Arts organisations and sector stakeholders engaged in data and benchmarking discussions	Participants occupying strategic, operational and infrastructure-related roles with experience in grant applications and conducting evaluations	England, Wales and ROI participation	Hybrid workshop structured around collaborative benchmarking exercises	Supported exploration of future organisational responses to benchmarking practices, data infrastructures and changing evaluative demands