Dear Friend of the University,
We are writing to you as an important stakeholder of the University of Aberdeen. We value our ongoing engagement with you and would like to be certain that we are not using your information for any purpose that you would prefer us not to. For the purposes of the QS World University Rankings reputation survey - an important global survey of academic or employer opinion - we would like to seek your permission to pass on your contact details (name, job title, institution and email address) to the QS. We feel that your impartial responses would contribute to the insight and precision of the survey’s outcomes.
If you consent to your contact details being passed to QS for this purpose exclusively, please confirm consent by Monday 18 December 2024. If we do not hear from you by this date, we will assume that you do not want your contact details to be passed on.
If you agree, you should be contacted by QS in the next few months with an invitation to participate in the annual QS Global Academic/Employer Survey, along with a maximum of two reminders. Their email will come from rankings@qs.com, so please add this address to your safe senders and check your spam.
The resulting data will be used in aggregate form only, QS will not contact you for any other reason, or for more than two editions of their annual survey, without supplementary or separate consent. Your responses will be combined with those of many others around the world to form reputation indicators used in the QS World University Rankings at global, regional, subject and programme levels where relevant. Detailed information can be found here.
With many thanks in advance for your cooperation.
Best wishes,
George Boyne, Principal and Vice-Chancellor