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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear members of the RADIATE consortium,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You may be aware of university rankings which play an ever-increasing role in university recruitment and competition. One of the most important ones for us in Nottingham is the QS survey:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings">https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The ranking depends to a significant degree on the votes of international experts on the relative quality of universities. Nottingham is among the top 100 in this survey and it is important for our international student recruitment that
we stay there. The university therefore makes significant efforts to boost our visibility. This includes asking staff members to nominate experts that can be put forward to QS and who will then be asked to rank universities.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Given our current collaboration, I assume that you are firstly all experts and secondly deeply convinced that UoN is a great university. I have therefore nominated most of the people on this list as potential experts. If you get an email
from UoN asking you whether you would be willing to be nominated, this is the background. You are then of course free to acceptor reject this invitation and rank us (and any other university) as you please.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bernd<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#981E32;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Bernd Carsten STAHL</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Digital Futures Group</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#981E32;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/computerscience/"><span style="color:blue">School
of Computer Science</span></a> </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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of NOTTINGHAM</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#981E32;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">T: +44 7952 875 862</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#981E32;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">E: </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="mailto:Bernd.stahl@nottingham.ac.uk"><span style="color:blue">bernd.stahl@nottingham.ac.uk
</span></a></span><u><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-responsible-technology?utm_campaign=STMJ_1713435535_CALLP_OA&utm_medium=DSPL&utm_source=DSPL&dgcid=STMJ_1713435535_CALLP_OA"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="728" height="90" style="width:7.5833in;height:.9375in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01DC48D7.311E9A90"></span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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