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Professor James Conroy, University of Glasgow, thought the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) was an “afterthought” in deliberations about how UK-wide funding is delivered.296 In his view: We need to have much more robust engagement between SFC and the English bodies, [and] particularly [with] UKRI, to make sure the funding is level and to make sure that the various additional investments that sometimes come on the back of QR and so on also make their way into Scottish universities at the same level as in English universities.297 291 Q11 292 RSE Young Academy of Scotland (USC0006) p 6 293 Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, UKRI Framework Document, May 2018, p 38 294 Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows (USC0013) para 26 295 Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows (USC0013) para 26 296 Q12 297 Q12 Universities and Scotland 49