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Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Indigenous and Local Knowledges
Applications are invited for the post of Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Indigenous and local knowledge’s within the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society based at Royal Holloway, University of London. This post will involve the conceptualisation and development of a framework and methodology that explicitly considers Indigenous and local communities’ fire knowledges within larger […]
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PhD Studentship: Contested fire management: Understanding trade-offs between traditional and government approaches to fire management
Project Description Fire is a critical component of many agricultural and livestock-based land use systems in the Global South where its management benefits from generations of local experience in how, when and where to set fires for maximum local benefit. In many countries, governments and conservation organisations have implemented a range of fire-related policies (from […]
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PhD Studentship: Physical and socio-economic drivers of changing fire dynamics in Ethiopia’s drylands and impacts on ecosystem services
Project Description Fire is a critical component of the ecology of African savannas and it is used by humans as a tool for rangeland management. Across much of northern Africa there has been a decreasing trend in burned area, but the drivers and impacts of these changes are not yet fully understood. These changing fire […]
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Research Assistant/Associate in Earth Systems Modelling
Applications are invited for a Research Associate to join the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society, to work on Earth system modelling within the Space and Atmospheric Physics group led by Dr Apostolos Voulgarakis, at the South Kensington Campus of Imperial College London. The focus of this project is to interact with all project […]
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Research Associate to investigate Arctic fires in the Thermofluids Division
Applications are invited to join the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society as a Research Associate to study experimentally smouldering Artic fire. This project, titled FireFrost, will be held within Imperial Hazelab which is the multidisciplinary research group led by Prof. Guillermo Rein based the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London. The […]
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