What is Researchfish?

Researchfish is an online facility used by research funders and research organisations, including UKRI and Wellcome Trust, to track the outcomes from their investments. PIs who have received funding are asked to log the outputs, outcomes and impacts of their work in the system.

Find out more from UKRI on reporting your research outcomes.

Submission period dates

The next UKRI Researchfish submission period will run from 1 February 2021 to 16:00 on 11 March 2021.

Communication dates

Week commencing 16 November 2020: Researchers and students who are new to Researchfish will receive a welcome email followed by account invitation email.

Early to mid December: Research Administrative Leads will be receiving an email asking for confirmation of response code updates, with the deadline for responses being 15 January 2021.

Week commencing 25 January 2021: Researchfish will email all researchers and students expected to make a submission to inform them of the upcoming submission period.

Who should record outcomes?

Principal Investigators: must complete a submission to Researchfish as part of the terms and conditions of holding a grant from UKRI. Some charitable organisations also require submission via Researchfish.

Research Council funded students: Students and their primary supervisors will receive an email from Researchfish in January 2021.

How to access Researchfish

All PIs with eligible grants should receive an email from the Researchfish team with guidance on how to access and set up an account.

Find out more about Researchfish

Impact of COVID-19 on UKRI-funded projects

There will be a temporary additional question section on Researchfish for 2021 to help understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on UKRI-funded projects. This will allow researchers to identify if their project’s outputs and outcomes have been affected by COVID-19.

From Researchfish on the questions in this section:

“To ensure we are only asking for the data required for this evaluation, the question will be applied to a subset of awards where it is most relevant. For example, the question will only be applied to those awards which were active on 1 February 2020 and will not be applied to studentship awards. Award holders will be informed in the run up to the submission period if they will be asked to answer this section.”