Philanthropy also allows talented research professionals to pursue new ideas and transform lives. With your support we are ...

Our founders, James Watt and George Heriot, were pioneers of the highest order in education and philanthropy, and they ...

Today we celebrate philanthropists who have shown similar commitment and foresight to our founding philanthropists, through Giving Circles. These groups enable us to bring our donors closer to the ...

Heriot-Watt University is a product of the Scottish Enlightenment. A pioneer in bringing education to working people in 1821 and founder of a global movement through the creation of the world's first ...

Twenty years before legislation forced Scottish universities to open their doors to women in 1889, Mary Burton (1819–1909), a pioneering campaigner for educational and social reform, led a successful ...

In October 1821 the School held its first lecture at St Cecilia's Concert Hall in Niddry Street, Edinburgh. The subject: chemistry. Over 300 people packed the venue. Several hundred were turned away.

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Scottish cleantech building materials company Kenoteq, a spinout from Heriot-Watt University, is set to transform the UK construction market as its revolutionary K-BRIQ achieves certification from the ...

A further 10,000 oysters have been reintroduced into the Firth of Forth thanks to the help of an Edinburgh charity. It means that in total, 40,000 European flat oysters have now entered the water over ...

Heriot-Watt University produces the highest percentage of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and Managing Directors (MDs) in Scotland. That is according to a new report by the financial services company, ...

Seventeen aspiring entrepreneurs from Heriot-Watt University have been shortlisted for their innovative projects in Converge 2025, which supports university founders. Heriot-Watt students, researchers ...

Overconfident chief executives and their risky behaviours can be partly restrained through credit ratings, new research finds. The research, which is published in the journal, European Financial ...