Over the past year we’ve continued to make improvements to Researchfish. As ever, our plans are informed by feedback from user research and behaviour analytics, as well as requests from our clients and users.

Introduction of support for outcome prioritisation to guide reporting

For each of the 15 common outcome types, funder and centre administrators can designate whether reporting is a lower priority for this particular award or not required, and this prioritisation can be adjusted on a per-award basis. This help video explains more.
 

Why has the outcome prioritisation functionality been introduced?
 

• To enable funders to further reduce the reporting burden for researchers by indicating which common outcome types should be prioritised when reporting in Researchfish  
• To ensure that researcher’s time is not spent reporting information which is not a priority
• To make the reporting process more focused, streamlined and efficient
   

Changes to the Question Set

• Intellectual Property & Licensing section - researchers will now also be able to report Registered Design Rights and Plant Variety Rights/Plant Breeders Rights.  
• Spin Outs section – removal of the question asking for the number of salaried employees for the company being reported.
• Common Patient and Public Involvement Additional Section – some questions have been updated to improve the consistency of the data collected and make sure the questions asked better align with funders evolving needs, please see here for more information.
   

Other notable enhancements

• Rewritten the “RHT process” that manages how grant data is added and maintained in Researchfish. This delivers some immediate benefits including improved automated validation and scalability; and lays the groundwork for future integrations with grant-management systems.
• Introduction of optional Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for Researchfish Administrators
• Ongoing updates to system infrastructure, including initial steps in adoption of Graphene design system, transition of our support documentation and content to a third party Knowledge Base Platform called HelpJuice, and the usual programme of data processes to harvest data for researchers and refresh meta data associated with previously entered data.
   

For full details, see the release notes at https://help.researchfish.com/en_US/release-notes.