Narrative describing research activities and/or the impact that has arisen from research activities is necessary for a broad range of uses for example general communication to stakeholders, for research evaluation (e.g. ex post appraisal of specific funding schemes or priority research areas), and/or exercises to assessing the quality of research (e.g. Research Excellent
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Software in Research and Why Sharing Research Outcomes is Vital
There have been two interesting articles published recently that describe how Researchfish has proved a vital tool in collecting and sharing data to understand the impact of research and making the case for future funding. In the article ‘Researchfish®: what can it tell us about software in research?‘ Simon Hettrick of the Software Sustainability
ISO 27001 Certification
A rather short blog post to announce that we are delighted to announce that we have now received full ISO 27001 Certification. This is one of the several measures that we take to keep your data safe (see our GDPR blog post).
GDPR and Researchfish – 20 Million Reasons to Take Notice
“People have never been so aware of what their personal data is, and never cared so much about how it is used. The law is changing to reflect that,” Christopher Graham, The Information Commissioner After four years in the making and a two-year transition period, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes
Researchfish January 2018 News & Updates
Submission Period Guidance – Blog Posts and More With the 2018 Multi-Funder Submission Period about to open we have published two blog posts providing guidance on how best to prepare. Please give these a read and ensure you have: a) Set up the submission period in Researchfish and assigned awards. b) Communicated with your award holders and
Public Involvement in Research – What Difference does it Make?
As Impact Lead at the NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre (NETSCC) I spend much of my time designing and delivering impact assessments. I work closely with colleagues across the NIHR and with INVOLVE. The key question we keep coming back to is ‘What difference does PPI make?’ and ‘how can we build