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Dr Daniele Colombaroli
It’s with great sorrow that we share news of the death of Dr Daniele Colombaroli. One of the first members of our Centre’s supervisory team, Daniele was a highly respected and much-liked colleague. We will miss his openness, his unfailing support for students, and his commitment to palaeo-research. Our thoughts are with his wife Carole, […]
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Post-doctoral opportunity: Arctic fires with an emphasis on smouldering combustion and fire spread
Job summary Applications are invited for a Research Associate to study experimentally smouldering Arctic fires and join Imperial Hazelab which is the multidisciplinary research group led by Prof. Guillermo Rein based the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London. The purpose of Hazelab is to reduce the worldwide burden of accidental fires and protect […]
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Extreme heat in the UK and wildfires: why we should expect it to happen again
By Theo Keeping and Olivia Haas On Friday 15th July 2022, the UK Met Office issued its first ever Red Warning for exceptional heat. Over the following two days, temperatures across the UK broke records, reaching 40.3°C in England, 37.1 °C in Wales and 34.8°C in Scotland. The weather drove a sharp response in wildfire […]
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A Global Perspective on Local Fire Use
by James Millington (King’s College London) If you do a Google Scholar search for ‘human’ or ‘anthropogenic’ and ‘landscape fire’ you’ll be returned over 5,000 papers. From this you might conclude that there’s lots of information available to enable a coherent global understanding of human impacts on landscape fire. Surprisingly, that’s not the case, […]
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Starting the conversation on decolonising fire science
Reporting from the “Decolonising Fire-Science- An Introduction” Workshop Full report available here by Abi Croker and Adriana Ford Research is a political act, and the way in which we create and communicate knowledge is deeply embedded in global power dynamics, shaped by colonial legacies as well as continued colonial thinking. Our very engagement (or lack […]
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Decolonising Fire Science – Critical Conversations (3rd Aug new date)
The Leverhulme Wildfires EDI Working Group is pleased to invite you to the second of a series of planned events and activities on ‘Decolonising Fire Science’. Title: Decolonising Fire Science: Critical Conversations Date/Time: Wednesday 3rd August (2-4pm BST) Format: Hybrid – Teams, and location to be confirmed (Imperial College) Audience: All Centre members and Affiliates. We […]
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Working in partnership to reduce the threat of wildfire in Scotland
Scotland may be the most northern part of the UK, but with wildfires increasing in frequency and intensity at higher latitudes, a considerable and growing threat exists. To find out more about the work Scotland is doing reduce this threat of wildfires, we spoke to Bruce Farquharson, Deputy Assistant Chief Officer in charge of the […]
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Summer placement (no 2) available for undergraduate students – Business School
We welcome applications for a 8-week summer placement project in the Business School, titled “Downscaling physical risks from global climate models”, with Imperial’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (see here for our other project). This UROPs is offered on a remote or hybrid basis. On-campus attendance will be possible, but it will not be essential. *Applications […]
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Fire in Practice – Ioana Dima-West and Alec Vessey, AXA XL (28 June)
In our latest Fire in Practice seminar, Drs Ioana Dima-West and Alec Vessey talk about quantifying wildfire risk in the Insurance Industry Register for free on Eventbrite Quantifying Wildfire Risk in the Insurance Industry Abstract In recent years there have been unprecedent losses due to wildfires across the world. The total global economic wildfire […]
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Summer placement (no 1) in wildfire research available for undergraduate students – Life Sciences /Data Science Institute
We welcome applications for an 8-week summer placement project on the topic of Wildfires versus Forest Fragmentation, 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 welcomed by Black students, as […]
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