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RGS Conference Session: ‘Governing fire across spatial boundaries’ (1 Sept 2023)
Royal Geographical Society conference session: ‘Governing fire across spatial boundaries’ Organised by the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society (Fire Governance Working Group) In person session (London) followed by hybrid session, 1st September 2023, 14:10-15:50 and 16:20 – 18:00 BST In the context of climate change, landscape fires are increasingly visible in the media […]
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Leverhulme Wildfires Summer Conference 2023 – call for poster abstracts
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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Arctic Wildfires: Leverhulme Wildfires at ISAR-7
by Katie Blackford and Matt Kasoar (Department of Physics, Imperial College London) From the 6th to 10th March, we attended the Seventh International Symposium on Arctic Research, held at the National Institute of Polar Research in Tachikawa, Japan. This biennial conference brings together hundreds of polar scientists from around the world, with a focus on […]
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Leverhulme Wildfires PhD Photo Competition
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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Indigenous representatives develop recommendations for fire management in the Rupununi, Guyana, with support from Leverhulme Wildfires
Indigenous representatives from Region 9 develop recommendations for fire management in the Rupununi, Guyana with support from research by the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society, UK Over twenty Indigenous representatives from the Rupununi came together to address growing concerns about fire management in Guyana. Together, they developed a set of Rupununi Fire Management […]
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Leverhulme Wildfires Summer Conference 2023 – save the date, 25th July
On 25th July 2023, we will be holding a Leverhulme Wildfires Summer Conference at Imperial College London. Free to Attend and Open to All! Join us for talks and discussions with researchers and practitioners working on wildfires, by both members of our Centre and external international experts. Followed by a networking event, poster and photo […]
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Summer placement 2023 (1) in wildfire research available for undergraduate students – Data Science Institute
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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Wildfires from above – What can and can’t we “hear”?
By Olivia Haas This article is associated with the event – Stolen Climate: Global Perspectives of Fire on Earth Wildfire seasons in the last few years have been some of the deadliest on record. Increasingly, images of a world on fire are being used to demonstrate the current climate emergency. However, our history with fire […]
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Conservation aflame
Abigail Croker is a PhD Student in the Centre for Environmental Policy, funded by the SSCP DTP, Grantham Institute, and affiliated with from the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society. In this post, she tells us about the challenges the world faces when tackling wildfires in the era of climate change. Her fieldwork in […]
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Stolen Climate exhibition highlights the complexity of wildfire and its relationship with culture, climate and colonialism
In a world where changing patterns of wildfire are affecting people in more extreme ways, what can global perspectives on fire offer us? And how can different ways of knowing inform how we face the future? A new exhibition features a collection of artwork, film and photography which presents First Nations Peoples’ perspectives on fire, […]
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