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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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  • PhD Studentship: The complexity of adopting environmental management, conservation and restoration initiatives within fire-prone landscapes

    24th June, 20 / Opportunities

    Project description There is a global push to better manage, conserve and restore ecosystems to mitigate the climate and biodiversity crisis. For example, restoration targets such as the Bonn challenge – aiming to restore 350 million hectares of degraded and deforested land by 2030 – encourage widespread forest restoration. At the same time, the frequency […]

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  • PhD Studentship: Incentives, Politics, Policies and Wildfire

    12th June, 20 / Opportunities

    Project Description Wildfire and human activity interact in complex ways. Identifying the mechanisms through which human behaviour influences wildfire outcomes is crucial for developing effective mitigation and adaptation policies, especially given the uncertainty introduced by the changing climate. This project will add to the understanding of the human drivers of wildfire. The candidate will develop […]

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Mission

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

Latest News
  • 6th June, 23

    Upcoming: RGS Conference Session: ‘Governing fire across spatial boundaries’ (1 Sept 2023)

  • 30th May, 23

    Leverhulme Wildfires Summer Conference 2023 – call for poster abstracts

  • 26th May, 23

    Arctic Wildfires: Leverhulme Wildfires at ISAR-7

  • 9th May, 23

    Leverhulme Wildfires PhD Photo Competition

  • 24th April, 23

    Indigenous representatives develop recommendations for fire management in the Rupununi, Guyana, with support from Leverhulme Wildfires

  • 21st April, 23

    Upcoming: Leverhulme Wildfires Summer Conference 2023 – save the date, 25th July

  • 28th March, 23

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

  • 3rd March, 23

    Wildfires from above – What can and can’t we “hear”?

  • 21st February, 23

    Stolen Climate exhibition highlights the complexity of wildfire and its relationship with culture, climate and colonialism

  • 15th February, 23

    Stolen Climate: Global Perspectives of Fire on Earth (1 Mar 2023)

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