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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Anybody interested in an initial chat with a potential PhD student? Ideally sometime next week, if we find a suitable slot<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">First come first serve.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Bernd<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> hebah mirza <hebahmirza1@gmail.com>
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<b>Sent:</b> 25 April 2025 10:06<br>
<b>To:</b> Bernd Stahl (staff) <pszbcs@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Application for PhD Supervision in Ethical AI<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Dr.Bernd,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for your reply, I was working on enhancing my proposal to provide a better version that meets your requirements. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please find the edited version attached to this email.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you very much for your time and consideration,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">looking forward to hearing from you. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hebah<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 12:12<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span>PM Bernd Stahl <<a href="mailto:Bernd.Stahl@nottingham.ac.uk">Bernd.Stahl@nottingham.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi Hebah,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks for this. From this document I can see roughly what you are interested in, but I cannot really see how you would go about answering your research
question.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">To prepare for an interview, can you please provide a version that gives more detail on the methodology? I would like to understand which data you
will collect, how you will collect it, how you will analyse it and how this will help you answer your research question. It would also be good to see something on the risks that you expect to encounter and how you will manage those.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Kind regards</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> hebah
mirza <<a href="mailto:hebahmirza1@gmail.com" target="_blank">hebahmirza1@gmail.com</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> 15 April 2025 00:36<br>
<b>To:</b> Bernd Stahl (staff) <<a href="mailto:pszbcs@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">pszbcs@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Application for PhD Supervision in Ethical AI</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Dear Dr.Bernd,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">I have attached the file. I hope it appears now, please let me know if you received it.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Thank you</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">BR,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Hebah</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">On Mon, 14 Apr 2025, 17:44 Bernd Stahl, <<a href="mailto:Bernd.Stahl@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">Bernd.Stahl@nottingham.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi Hebah,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I can see the CV, but not the proposal. Can you resend?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Bernd
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> hebah
mirza <<a href="mailto:hebahmirza1@gmail.com" target="_blank">hebahmirza1@gmail.com</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> 14 April 2025 12:57<br>
<b>To:</b> Bernd Stahl (staff) <<a href="mailto:pszbcs@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">pszbcs@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Application for PhD Supervision in Ethical AI</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Dear Dr.Bernd,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Plese find my initial proposal, and cv attached. if you can have a look at it please.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">i'm happy to update it to meet your goals.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Thank you very much,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Hebah Mirza <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">On Sat, 12 Apr 2025, 12:31 Bernd Stahl, <<a href="mailto:Bernd.Stahl@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">Bernd.Stahl@nottingham.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Hi Hebah,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Ok, thanks for the update. The next step would be for you to write a proposal for your research project. If I am to be a supervisor, it
would have to align with my research interests. In the last few years, I have been looking at the concept of governance of AI ecosystem, so i would hope to see a proposal that aligns with that. You can find my publications on the topic in google scholar. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">The proposal should cover the research question, a justification of why it is a good question and some ideas about methodology, data to
be collected, analysis methods etc. once you have such a proposal, we can have an informal chat and then take it from there.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Kind regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> hebah mirza<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, April 12, 2025 10:12<br>
<b>To:</b> Bernd Stahl (staff)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Application for PhD Supervision in Ethical AI </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Hi Dr.Bernd,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I am happy to hear from you,<br>
regarding the funding, i will be self funding my studies, not on scholarship.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>waiting hearing from you soon.<br>
Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Kind Regards<br>
Hebah<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">On Sat, 12 Apr 2025, 09:39 Bernd Stahl, <<a href="mailto:Bernd.Stahl@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">Bernd.Stahl@nottingham.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Hi Heba,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Thank you for your interest in doing a PhD under my supervision.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Let me start by asking the crucial question concerning funding. Would you expect to receive a scholarship from the University of Nottingham?
If so, then i am afraid that I have to tell you that I do not have access to PhD funding at the moment and you will need to find different ways of funding the PhD. If you have another source f funding, we could have a look at your proposal.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Kind regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Bernd</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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mirza <<a href="mailto:hebahmirza1@gmail.com" target="_blank">hebahmirza1@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 11, 2025 23:23<br>
<b>To:</b> Bernd Stahl (staff) <<a href="mailto:pszbcs@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">pszbcs@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Application for PhD Supervision in Ethical AI</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">My name is Hebah Mirza, I am extremely interested in Ethical AI, and fascinated by your work, research, and achievements. I am writing to express
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">I had my Master's degree in Information Systems since 2013, and been working into academic positions and experienced in some other professions such
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Given my current commitments, i am exploring both full time or part-time PhD Programs starting at September 2025 or January 2026. I understand this
depends on the University policies and supervisor's agreement. So, I wanted to check if this is feasible for you.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">I believe that Research and Development (R&D) are the backbone for advancing and enhancing the quality of life in Communities. By researching and
developing trusted, explainable and ethical AI solutions techniques; we can build public trust and ensure the quality and reliability of these technologies ultimately contributing to a better, more equitable future. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">This is a huge opportunity to me and a great chance to present a valuable solution for the world and my country. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Please find my attached CV, and initial research proposal. I would be deeply grateful for the opportunity to discuss whether my profile would fit
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Hebah S.Mirza</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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