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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">For info<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"> Mathew Crosier (staff) <M.Crosier@nottingham.ac.uk>
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<b>Sent:</b> 17 March 2026 11:42<br>
<b>To:</b> Bernd Stahl (staff) <Bernd.Stahl@nottingham.ac.uk><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: RDF A9 Budget<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Hi Bernd,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Mat<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="color:black">Bernd Stahl (staff) <<a href="mailto:Bernd.Stahl@nottingham.ac.uk">Bernd.Stahl@nottingham.ac.uk</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, 25 February 2026 at 15:58<br>
<b>To: </b>Mathew Crosier (staff) <<a href="mailto:M.Crosier@nottingham.ac.uk">M.Crosier@nottingham.ac.uk</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>RE: RDF A9 Budget<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi Mat,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Here is the projected RDF budget.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Kind regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Bernd</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Mathew Crosier (staff)
<u><span style="color:blue"><a href="mailto:M.Crosier@nottingham.ac.uk">M.Crosier@nottingham.ac.uk</a></span></u><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 11 February 2026 16:29<br>
<b>To:</b> Bernd Stahl (staff) <<a href="mailto:Bernd.Stahl@nottingham.ac.uk">Bernd.Stahl@nottingham.ac.uk</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RDF A9 Budget</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Hi,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">To date, spend from the RDF group A9 is £578.47 (this does not include any pending transactions). This is against an initial allocation of £2,000 meaning you have
£1,421.53 remaining. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Could I ask you and your group to consider your spend plans and priorities to the end of July and let me know top level details including the expected cost of delivering
these please? Additional funding is available but resources are finite so I may ask for further information about prioritisation if total requests exceed the available funds. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Please note, the discretionary School budget to fund research publications is no longer available. This means research groups should prioritise A9 spend on REF returnable
publications, if it is not possible to link publications to research grants and thereby exploit UKRI block funding. Due to the relatively small amounts of funding available, groups should not split their allocations down to individual members but manage the
available funds to maximise the REF return for the group as a whole.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">To allow consideration of all requests together, please send me this information by
<b>5pm on Wednesday 25 February. </b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> Best wishes,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Mat</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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