Final reporting forms and guidance for individual awards

Grant holders must submit an End of Award Report and an Impact Report at the end of the award. In addition, you can submit Impact Records at any point during or after the award.

These final reporting forms are not required for all ESRC awards. For further information you should refer to:

If you require clarification you should contact the Evaluation team on 01793 413112 or email reportsofficer@esrc.ac.uk

End of Award Report

The final payment on your award will be withheld until you have submitted an End of Award Report which meets the criteria laid down in the accompanying guidelines. Further research applications to the ESRC will not be accepted from any grant holder who has an outstanding End of Award Report.

Grant holders will be expected to provide an explanation in the final report where the use of funds has been significantly different from that anticipated at the start.

The report is a mandatory part of the evaluation process. You can download the End of Award Report form and guidance below.

Impact Report

You are required to submit an Impact Report 12 months after your award end date. This should be submitted via the Research Outcomes System (ROS).

You should also ensure the details of outputs and downloadable copies of outputs are uploaded via ROS. Where your nominated outputs are not available to download from ROS these should be emailed to reportsofficer@esrc.ac.uk.

The report is a mandatory part of the evaluation process. Guidance on completing the Impact Report via ROS can be found below.

Impact Record

The Impact Record provides a simple, succinct way of recording any impacts that arise from your project, during or after the lifetime of the award.

It is not used in the evaluation of your project but may be taken into consideration in any future applications you submit to ESRC.

To update the Impact Record, log onto the Research Outcomes System. You should select 'Impact' and 'Impact Record' as the outcome type to add.

Further information

If you have any questions about the report forms or process, please refer to our FAQs (PDF, 152Kb) in the first instance, or email reportsofficer@esrc.ac.uk if your query is not answered there.