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Is your home at risk from rising UK wildfires? (22 Aug 2025)
Dr Adriana Ford quoted in the Telegraph on UK wildfire impacts and risk. Feature image: Firefighters from Noth Wales tackle a gorse fire near Caernarfon in Gwynedd Credit: Rob Formstone
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Hot, dry summers bring new ‘firewave’ risk to UK cities, scientists warn (14 Aug 2025)
Prof Guillermo Rein quoted by the BBC on wildfire risk in the UK.
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PDRA in Fire Management Modelling (deadline 5 Sept 2025)
PDRA in Fire Management Modelling – Full Time, Fixed Term until 31/03/2027 The PDRA Fire Management Modelling will work on the LEMONTREE (Land Ecosystem Models based On New Theory, observations and Experiments) project and will be part of a team of scientists developing new fire modelling capacity, based on eco-evolutionary optimality theory. The PDRA will be explicitly responsible […]
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A Rocha Ghana Unveils Fire Management Advocacy Billboard at Damongo (27 June 2025)
Leverhulme Wildfires / KCL AHRC IAA project, involving Centre members Rahina Sidiki-Alare, Adriana Ford and Kate Schreckenberg along with project partners, featured in local news in Ghana in PADFM
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Equitable Fire Management in Ghana
Equitable Fire Management in Ghana: co-developing an adaptable framework with local communities using social science and arts-based methods by Adriana Ford, Rahina Sidiki Alare, Kate Schreckenberg (KCL/Leverhulme Wildfires), Godwin Evenyo Dzekoto (A Rocha Ghana) and Danny Anetang (MagzyART) In recent years, the prevalence of wildfires has become a major concern for societies across the globe. […]
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In the Media – fire management in Kenya’s Tsavo region (May 2025)
In collaboration with the African Wildlife Foundation and Taita Taveta Conservancies Association, a project on fire management in Kenya, led by PhD student Amos Chege Muthiuru, Dr Adriana Ford and Prof James Millington has been featured in multiple news outlets. The first stage of the project was workshop (May 2025) with Indigenous Peoples and Local […]
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Giraffe Team Bulletin – latest from the new Leverhulme Wildfires research teams. No.4
Welcome to the fourth Giraffe Team Bulletin! Approximately every two months, we share a Giraffe Team bulletin, providing you with an update on the latest from each of our six teams. We hope you enjoy the bulletins and that it helps you keep abreast of our research. Please do get in touch if you want […]
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Living with fire: adapting to changing wildfires risks in the Brazilian Amazon
New blog post by PhD student, Michel Valette. Living with fire: adapting to changing wildfires risks in the Brazilian Amazon – Imperial Natural Sciences blog
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Leverhulme Wildfires Research Workshop – Challenges (8 May 2025)
This workshop is for Centre members and affiliates Workshop title: Challenges Timings and location: 8th May 13:30-16:30, Royal Holloway, Queen’s Building, Room 174 (see map) or Join Online (see emails/calendar invite or contact a.ford@imperial.ac.uk) It is very common, and enjoyable, to share research progress and successes, and we learn a lot from this. However, equally it […]
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Giraffe Team Bulletin – latest from the new Leverhulme Wildfires research teams. No.3
Welcome to the third Giraffe Team Bulletin! Approximately every two months, we share a Giraffe Team bulletin, providing you with an update on the latest from each of our six teams. We hope you enjoy the bulletins and that it helps you keep abreast of our research. Please do get in touch if you want […]
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