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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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  • PhD Studentship: Long-term interactions between vegetation, fire and human impact in Guyana

    11th June, 20 / Opportunities

    Applications are invited for a four year fully funded PhD in Tropical Palaeoecology within the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society. The Project The studentship will be based in the Department of Geography, RHUL and supervised by Dr. Daniele Colombaroli, Centre for Quaternary Research (CQR), Prof. Jay Mistry, Associate Director of the Leverhulme Centre […]

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  • PhD Studentship in Environmental Science: The impact of anthropogenic land-use changes on fire regimes during the Holocene

    28th May, 20 / Opportunities

    Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD on the impact of anthropogenic land-use changes on fire regimes during the Holocene, based at the University of Reading Department/School: Geography & Environmental Science/ School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science, Reading Supervisor: Professor Sandy P. Harrison Project Overview: Land-use change has been one of the major […]

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  • London NERC DTP NPIF PhD Studentship: Hyperspectral and Thermal Remote Sensing of Landscape Fire Properties

    27th May, 20 / Opportunities

    Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD in the Remote Sensing of Landscape Fire, to be based in the Department of Geography, King’s College London. Funded by the National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) and delivered through the London NERC London DTP, the PhD relates to the NPIF themes of transformative digital technologies, satellites/space technologies, […]

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

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  • 1st February, 23

    Moto katika mazingira yanayoshindaniwa-kufanya kazi na washikadau wa Kenya kuelekea mbinu ya udhibiti wa moto iliyoondolewa ukoloni

  • 31st January, 23

    New FIRE-ADAPT project investigates how integrated fire management contributes to biodiversity, carbon, and cultural values

  • 31st January, 23

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

  • 29th January, 23

    Forest carbon credits: report shows new ways to manage risks and returns

  • 14th December, 22

    Fire Across Contested Landscapes – working with Kenyan stakeholders towards a decolonised fire management approach

  • 27th November, 22

    Upcoming: Progress in Fire Modelling in the UK & Europe (11-12 Jan 2023)

  • 26th November, 22

    Decolonising Fire Science – Fire Management Across Contested Landscapes (1-2 Dec 2022)

  • 5th November, 22

    The impact of landscape fire smoke on insects

  • 29th October, 22

    The Culture File Debate: The Fire This Time (29 Oct 2022)

  • 27th October, 22

    Wildfires as a Shared Arctic Variable

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