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  • PhD Studentship: An analysis of the impact of climate change on traditional fire knowledge

    9th March, 22 / Opportunities

    Project title: An analysis of the impact of climate change on traditional fire knowledge Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London The studentship will be supervised by Dr Daniele Colombaroli and Professor Jay Mistry, Co-Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society and, both in the Department of Geography. It will be funded […]

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  • PhD Opportunity: A data analytic assessment of the health risks and impacts from wildfires

    10th January, 22 / Opportunities

    Supervisors: Professor Majid Ezzati (Imperial College London) and Professor Sandy Harrison (University of Reading) We welcome applications for a funded 4-year PhD studentship to start in October 2022. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and ambitious student with a strong analytical background to conduct cutting-edge and high-impact interdisciplinary research on the health risks […]

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  • PhD Studentships – King’s-China Scholarship Council

    16th November, 21 / Opportunities

    The Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society is welcoming applicants for the King’s China Scholarship Council awards. Up to 100 K-CSC joint scholarship awards are available to support students from China who are seeking to start an MPhil/PhD degree at King’s College London in the 2022/23 academic year. Visit here for more information. The […]

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  • Post-doctoral opportunity: Climate Risk Management and Analytics

    2nd November, 21 / Opportunities

    Job description Job summary Imperial College London is looking for dedicated candidates for a fixed term position at the Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis in the context of research work carried out in collaboration with the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, the Environment and Society. You will work as part of a team of post-docs […]

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  • Post-doctoral opportunity: Climate Finance and Analytics

    2nd November, 21 / Opportunities

    Job summary Imperial College London is looking for dedicated candidates for a fixed term position at the Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis in the context of research work carried out in collaboration with the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, the Environment and Society. You will work as part of a team of post-docs and experienced […]

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  • Two summer placements in wildfire research available for undergraduate students

    14th June, 21 / Opportunities

    We welcome applications for two 8-week summer placement projects with Imperial’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme, on the topic of wildfires. These UROPs are offered on a remote basis. If on-campus attendance is possible this will be considered dependent on the College rules in force at the time, but it will not be essential. *Applications are […]

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  • PhD Studentships – King’s-China Scholarship Council

    20th November, 20 / Opportunities

    The Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society is welcoming applicants for the King’s China Scholarship Council awards. Up to 100 K-CSC joint scholarship awards are available to support students from China who are seeking to start an MPhil/PhD degree at King’s College London in the 2021/22 academic year. Visit here for more information. The […]

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  • PhD Studentship: Inequalities in the health risks and impacts of wildfires

    17th November, 20 / Opportunities

    Supervisors: Professor Majid Ezzati (Imperial College London; www.globalenvhealth.org) and Professor Sandy Harrison (University of Reading) We welcome applications for funded 4-year PhD studentships to start in Spring-Autumn 2021. This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious researcher to conduct interdisciplinary research on vulnerability to, and inequalities in, the health risks and impacts of wildfires. Wildfires […]

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  • PhD Studentship: Quantifying the radiative impacts of African landscape fires across multiple temporal and spatial scales

    17th November, 20 / Opportunities

    Wildfires play a fundamental role in the Earth system.  Globally, an area of the order 350 Mha is burned on an annual basis, with substantial associated carbon emissions.  The disturbance to the atmospheric and surface state caused by fire events can be sensed remotely from space using a variety of techniques, including identification of ‘hot-spots’, […]

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  • SCENARIO-DTP PhD Opportunity x 3

    10th November, 20 / Opportunities

    Three SCENARIO-DTP PhD projects at the University of Reading are being advertised with the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society. SCENARIO: Fire-related plant traits and ecosystem recovery. Primary supervisor Sandy Harrison, University of Reading (with Colin Prentice, Imperial, as a co-supervisor) SCENARIO: Climate Feedbacks through reactive greenhouse gases Primary supervisor Bill Collins , University of Reading […]

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Mission

Our mission is to lead game-changing global research for understanding, predicting and managing wildfires.

Latest News
  • 20th May, 22

    Furthering our understanding of the global patterns of burnt area, fire size and fire intensity

  • 12th April, 22

    Climate drivers of wildfire burned area across the globe

  • 8th April, 22

    Future climate change impact on wildfire danger over the Mediterranean: the case of Greece

  • 30th March, 22

    Fire in Practice – Tercia Strydom, SANParks (26 Apr)

  • 30th March, 22

    Leverhulme Wildfires- FURNACES joint research workshop (19 Apr)

  • 28th March, 22

    Declining controlled fire use undermines subsistence-oriented and smallholder livelihoods, and threatens ecosystems

  • 17th March, 22

    Decolonising Fire Science – An Introduction (5 Apr)

  • 11th March, 22

    What’s Next? Forest Fires in California’s New Climate Reality (18 Mar)

  • 11th March, 22

    High-latitude Fires, Arctic Climate, Environment, and Health Workshop (28 Mar)

  • 9th March, 22

    PhD Studentship: An analysis of the impact of climate change on traditional fire knowledge

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May 25, 2022

Well done to our ECRs who've presented research at this year's @EuroGeosciences conference in Vienna! Plus, for those attending, don't miss out on our session - "The socio-ecological dynamics of Anthropocene wildfire regimes" on Friday 27th https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU22/session/43581 #EGU22

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London, SW7 2BW, UK.

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