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  • Post Doctoral Research Associate Human-Fire Interactions

    16th June, 23 / Opportunities

    Department of Geography Location:  Egham Salary:  £40,608 per annum – including London Allowance Post Type:  Full Time Closing Date:  23.59 hours BST on Thursday 13 July 2023 Reference:  0623-276 Full Time, Fixed Term   Applications are invited for the post of Post Doctoral Research Associate Human-Fire Interactions within the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society. The […]

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  • Leverhulme Wildfires Summer Conference 2023 – call for poster abstracts

    30th May, 23 / Events , Opportunities

    Call for Abstracts We are pleased to invite you to submit a poster abstract for consideration for the Leverhulme Wildfires Summer Conference 2023. Posters will be organised by conference themes, and there will be opportunities for presenters to discuss their work with interested participants in the designated networking and poster session in the evening, as […]

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  • Leverhulme Wildfires PhD Photo Competition

    9th May, 23 / Opportunities

    The Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society is running a competition to find images and accompanying narratives that best communicates the impressive work of PhD students studying wildfires from across the world. Shortlisted entries will be displayed at the Leverhulme Wildfires summer conference on 25th July 2023 at Imperial College London, as well as […]

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  • Summer placement 2023 (1) in wildfire research available for undergraduate students – Data Science Institute

    28th March, 23 / Opportunities

    We welcome applications for an 8-week summer placement project on the topic of “Wildfire spread prediction using deep learning and remote sensing data”, with Imperial’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme, on the topic of wildfires. This UROPs is offered on a remote or hybrid basis. On-campus attendance will be possible, but it will not be essential. *Applications are especially […]

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  • Post-doctoral opportunity: Research Associate in Wildfire Smoke Analysis / Infrared Spectroscopy

    2nd September, 22 / Opportunities

    Job ID: 053489 Salary: £40,386 – £47,414 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance Posted: 02-Sep-2022 Closing date: 02-Oct-2022 Business unit: Social Science & Public Policy Department: Department of Geography Contact details: Martin Wooster, martin.wooster@kcl.ac.uk Apply here Job description The researcher will join the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires Environment and Society  and be based within the vibrant, multi-disciplinary Earth Observation and Wildfire Research […]

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  • Post-doctoral opportunity: Research Associate in Earth Observation and Landscape Fire Science

    2nd September, 22 / Opportunities

    University: King’s College London Job ID: 053468 Salary: £40,386 – £47,414 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance Posted: 02-Sep-2022 Closing date: 02-Oct-2022 Business unit: Social Science & Public Policy Department: Department of Geography Contact details: Martin Wooster, martin.wooster@kcl.ac.uk Apply here Job description The researcher will join the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires Environment and Society and be based within the vibrant, multi-disciplinary Earth Observation […]

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  • Post-doctoral opportunity: Arctic fires with an emphasis on smouldering combustion and fire spread

    15th August, 22 / Opportunities

    Job summary Applications are invited for a Research Associate to study experimentally smouldering Arctic fires and join Imperial Hazelab which is the multidisciplinary research group led by Prof. Guillermo Rein based the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London. The purpose of Hazelab is to reduce the worldwide burden of accidental fires and protect […]

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  • Summer placement (no 2) available for undergraduate students – Business School

    28th June, 22 / Opportunities

    We welcome applications for a 8-week summer placement project in the Business School, titled “Downscaling physical risks from global climate models”, with Imperial’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (see here for our other project). This UROPs is offered on a remote or hybrid basis. On-campus attendance will be possible, but it will not be essential. *Applications […]

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  • Summer placement (no 1) in wildfire research available for undergraduate students – Life Sciences /Data Science Institute

    24th June, 22 / Opportunities

    We welcome applications for an 8-week summer placement project on the topic of Wildfires versus Forest Fragmentation, with Imperial’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme, on the topic of wildfires. This UROPs is offered on a remote or hybrid basis. On-campus attendance will be possible, but it will not be essential. *Applications are especially welcomed by Black students, as […]

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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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