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Leverhulme Wildfires Spring Symposium 2025
What: Leverhulme Wildfires Spring Symposium 2025 When: Tues 27th and Wed 28th May 2025 Where: University of Reading, Meadow Suite, Park House. Online (MS Teams) for those who cannot attend in person (overseas, caring duties, health reasons etc). Aim: Sharing and celebrating the Centre’s research, gaining feedback, fostering collaborations and new ideas, building community Who: […]
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For Your Inspiration – Earth Extremes (Royal Institute) (8 Nov 2024)
For Your Inspiration – Earth Extremes (Royal Institute) (8 Nov 2024) – organised by the Grantham Institute Read more here Book via Eventbrite From the icy cold arctic to the blistering heat of a volcano, animals and plants have adapted to live in these spaces. With our climate becoming more extreme, humans will also […]
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FIRE IN PRACTICE: Godwin Dzekoto – Revisiting fire management in Ghana: Integrating historical practices, institutional dynamics and collaborative approaches (27 Nov 2024)
Register on Eventbrite When: Wednesday 27th November 2024, 14:30-15:30 GMT Where: Online (Zoom) / Melbourne House boardroom (for Centre members) Title: Revisiting fire management in Ghana: Integrating historical practices, institutional dynamics and collaborative approaches Speaker: Godwin Dzekoto, A Rocha Ghana Abstract Fire management in Ghana has historically been shaped by a complex interplay of traditional practices, […]
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Guest Seminar: Mexico’s challenging path towards integrated and intercultural fire management (26 Nov 2024)
Please register on Eventbrite Tuesday 26th November 2024, 4-5pm GMT Title: Mexico’s challenging path towards integrated and intercultural fire management Abstract Over the last decades, researchers and practitioners have proposed integrated approaches to fire management, which consider fire ecology, and a focus on prevention and risk reduction. In some instances, this has also included a non-prohibitive […]
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Guest Seminar – Candice Charlton – Evaluating the skill of meteorological-based indices for determining bushfire potential in Jamaica (21 May 2024)
Evaluating the skill of meteorological-based indices for determining bushfire potential in Jamaica Register for free on Eventbrite Tuesday 21st May 2024, 14:30-15:30 BST (13:30-14:30 UTC) Online and in-person at Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, Sir Alexander Fleming Building Room SAF 121 Map Welcome to this special Leverhulme Wildfires Guest Speaker seminar where we are […]
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Leverhulme Wildfires Spring Symposium (14-15 May 2024)
Save the date for our Leverhulme Wildfires Spring Symposium to be held at King’s College London on 14-15th May 2024. This symposium is for all Centre members and affiliates. Who: All Centre members and affiliates. All supervisors strongly encouraged to attend. Location: In-person at the Great Hall, the Strand, King’s College London (online available […]
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Data Dive 3 (18 Mar 2024)
Data Dive on Monday 15th Jan 2024, King’s College London (internal event, affiliates welcome) In the Autumn we held a ‘data dive’ event, where groups of us spent a day asking some initial questions of the Global Fire Use Survey dataset. On 15th Jan we then held a follow up event. We are now holding […]
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ASSW 2024 – High-latitude Fires, Arctic Climate, Environment, and Health Workshop 3 (21 Mar 2024)
High-latitude Fires, Arctic Climate, Environment, and Health 3 Thursday 21st March 2024 Hybrid Open Session(Online/Edinburg, Scotland) 08:30-12:30 (GMT) Organisers: Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society, ACRoBEAR, Arctic Voices, and ARCTIC PASSION Conference website: https://www.assw.info Conference registration: https://assw.info/registration Unofficial session sign-up – here >>>PARTICPANTS – LINK TO WORKSHOP GOOGLE DOC << * There is an online […]
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Leverhulme Wildfires Research Workshop – Exploring our time in Leverhulme Wildfires so far through participatory video (12 Apr 2024)
This workshop is for Centre members and affiliates Workshop title: ‘Exploring our time in Leverhulme Wildfires so far through participatory video’ Timings and location: 12th April, 11am – 7pm, Imperial College London (rooms tbc) Description: The workshop will introduce participatory video as a methodology, with teams working to plan, shoot, and edit our own videos […]
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Fire in Practice: Bruce Farquharson – Creating a Resilient Landscape (5 Mar 2024)
Creating a Resilient Landscape 5th March 2024, 4-5pm GMT Register here Abstract Fire is a naturally occurring phenomenon and has been used as a tool for generations across the world. It has the potential to have a catastrophic impact on our landscape, but also to be an incredibly useful tool that can prevent the negative […]
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