Release date: Tuesday 27 January 2026

Version: P16.06

Take a look at the improvements and fixes added to the platform in the latest release.

Added: introduced a new mechanism for funders to define and add additional IDs to their awards. 

• Funders can define and manage these award identifiers via a new “Award Identifiers” page.
• (The RHT process will shortly be updated to supports additional award identifiers, with a column for each identifier defined by the funder. In the meantime, adding new award IDs to awards can be done by the data team.)
• The harvesting mechanisms are being extended to support these additional IDs, including supporting harvesting against the Grant DOI ID.

Added: creating the following new Additional Questions for specific funders:

• “Any Other Outputs and Outcomes”
• “Researchfish Monitoring Questions”

Added: it is now possible to manage Outcome Priority Schemes via the award creation / edit screens.

Added: the RHT process now supports the Metafunder field, and the assignment of Outcome Priority Schemes to awards.

Improved: made customer-requested adjustments to the following Additional Questions:

• “Researchfish Monitoring Questions”
• “Narrative Summary”
• “Public engagement and involvement”

Improved: upgraded to the latest version of the Graphene design library.

Improved: upgraded the version of the PostgreSQL database supporting parts of the platform.

Improved: updated the “What’s New” content on the platform, to support the UK Multi Funder Submission Process.

Fixed: addressed a permissions issue regarding access to the Outcome Priority Schemes creation & management functionality.

Fixed: combined 2 options in the Intellectual Property & Licensing outcome type, that had inadvertently been treated as separate options in the recent changes.

Fixed: corrected the colours of the “Low Priority” buttons on the Outcome Listing page.

Fixed: addressed an issue with the behaviour of the “Filter by” control on some outcome listing pages.

Fixed: addressed some layout issues on small screen sizes on the Outcome Listing pages, due to the changes to support Outcome Prioritisation

Fixed: addressed an issue that was causing an incorrect Additional Question to be included in RHT downloads for a specific funder.

Fixed: addressed an issue that caused the Researchfish logo to not render properly on some emails.

Note: As with many sprints, there is development work in this sprint that has not yet been released to the platform.

If you have questions about improvements or fixes, please contact c.millerchip@elsevier.com