Adam Smith's Panmure House

Our congratulations to Dr Ganesh and his team of co-applicants whom he dedicates this award to.

Join us in congratulating ’s Dr. Aravind Ganesh, MD’12, for winning the 2022 Panmure House Prize!

The neurologist and assistant professor has been awarded US$75,000 to help drive stroke research through a new crowdfunding platform he has helped launch, called Collavidence.com. The platform connects members of the public and philanthropists to simplified and peer-reviewed information about leading-edge research projects. The aim is to increase trust in medical research projects and, in turn, to encourage more investment.

“Over the next year, we will examine the extent to which this platform can engage members of the public in viewing and funding research projects. We will also examine whether projects on Collavidence.com can achieve better funding success rates than traditional grant-funding agencies.”

Read more: https://www.hw.ac.uk/news/articles/2022/2022-panmure-house-prize-winner-announced.htm

Collavidence

Adam Smith's Panmure House

Come along to Venue 305 and see us this August! 🎭

This August, Edinburgh Business School's Adam Smith's Panmure House opens its doors once again for the annual Edinburgh Fringe Festival, bringing back familiar favourites and new performances like The Butcher, The Brewer, The Baker and Merryn Somerset Webb, How Heavy? and Carnegie. The Watt Club - Heriot-Watt University Alumni Association was lucky to watch a dress rehearsal before the shows start on 5 August. You can hit the link to buy your tickets. > https://bit.ly/3yjfVj1

PANMURE HOUSE PRIZE RESEARCH RESULTS PRESENTATION:

The Panmure House Prize is an annual award of $75,000 for research into long-term investing and its relationship with innovation. It is awarded to emerging leaders in academia who are planning to produce outstanding research on the topic of the long-term funding of innovation in the spirit of Adam Smith.

The 2021 Prize is awarded to a team led by Professor Rachelle C. Sampson from the University of Maryland. Looking at US patents between 1980 and 2017, their project aims to demonstrate that long-term-oriented firms – supported by government-funded R&D, stronger scientific orientation, a more centralised organisation and greater investment– are more likely to produce breakthrough innovations such as Dupont’s nylon or AT&T Bell Labs’ transistor.
Professor Sampson will deliver an original lecture describing the research undertaken and the results. This will be chaired by Professor Sir John Kay, a member of our judging panel and former Dean of Oxford’s Saïd Business School.

Date: 19 July 2022
Time: 14:00-15:30 BST
Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/9016515900298/WN_1XYr2hjcQQuQwxpyi39vKg

Are you a primary teacher, secondary teacher, upper primary teacher, secondary teacher, and SLT?

Would you like to learn new creative ways of teaching the critical skills of , and in your classroom?

Join our training session at Panmure House, the final and only remaining home of Adam Smith, for an exciting afternoon of learning and sharing with other teachers.

Friday 27th May 2022 from 15:30-17:00 at Panmure House

Register now to join us: https://www.panmurehouse.org/programmes/smith-schools-series/clpl-training/

'How to Read Robert Louis Stevenson' by Dr Caroline Howitt is now available to watch on our website, for free: https://www.panmurehouse.org/programmes/lights-of-caledonia/lights-of-caledonia-with-caroline-howitt/

is designed to celebrate Scotland’s intellectual and cultural contributions to the world. In this lecture, Dr Howitt reveals the golden thread that links together Stevenson’s often disparate, experimental body of work, illuminating his theories on the necessity of fiction and its positive long-term impacts.

Register for Lights of Caledonia Dr Caroline Howitt presents 'How to Read Robert Louis Stevenson' from Panmure House.

It's event day‼️

Don't miss out on the opportunity to ask our Lights of Caledonia speaker your pressing questions on today at 14:00 [BST].

Caroline Howitt is Programme Director here at Adam Smith's Panmure House.

Like Smith 200 years before her, Caroline attended the University of Glasgow before undertaking postgraduate study at Balliol College, Oxford under the Snell Scholarship. She later wrote her PhD on the work of Robert Louis Stevenson, and taught English Literature at the University of St Andrews. Caroline will be presenting a keynote on 'How to Read Robert Louis Stevenson' before taking your questions in a live session chaired by Professor Heather McGregor, incoming Provost of Dubai, Heriot-Watt University.

Register now: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gqsZjR-nTVGQRGUPbi5wFw

Our team is growing!

We are hiring a Programme Executive to join our team and help us accelerate our growth and programmes. The Programme Executive will have responsibility for the practical delivery of key external engagement strands, including the Lights of Caledonia Series, the Fringe at Panmure, the Society of Panmure House, the Founder Sponsorship Programme, and Panmure House Perspectives.

Read more about the role and apply before 3 April 2022: https://www.panmurehouse.org/get-involved/work-with-us/

We are pleased to announce details of our event:

Dr Caroline Howitt will discuss 'How to Read Robert Louis Stevenson'

Stevenson is one of Scotland’s greatest authors – a master storyteller with an indelible global legacy. But how – and why – did the mind behind the ultimate pirate yarn and boys’ adventure story (Treasure Island) also produce the gothic horror of the world’s greatest allegory on human duality (Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde)? This lecture reveals the golden thread that links together Stevenson’s often disparate, experimental body of work, illuminating his theories on the necessity of fiction and its positive long-term impacts.

📅31 March 2022

⏲️14.00-15.30 BST

The audience Q&A will be chaired by Professor Heather McGregor, incoming Provost, Dubai campus, Heriot-Watt University

Register here: https://www.panmurehouse.org/programmes/lights-of-caledonia/lights-of-caledonia-with-caroline-howitt/

Caroline is Programme Director at Adam Smith's Panmure House, a centre for new economic and social debate and research.

Like Smith 200 years before her, Caroline attended the before undertaking postgraduate study at Balliol College, under the Snell Scholarship. She later wrote her PhD on the work of Robert Louis Stevenson, and taught English Literature at the .

We're heading into the weekend reflecting on 's musings and writings, some famous and some lesser-known. What are your favourite Smith quotes?

‘Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this – no dog exchanges bones with another.’

‘Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.’

‘The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.’

‘No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.’

‘It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.’

‘A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of its people.’

‘The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.’