Edinburgh Fire

Researching all things Fiery at Edinburgh University for over fifty years.

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Yesterday was the final event in the Fire Engineering Science MSc for some of our students, where they presented posters of their research projects. Some great work presented! 🔥

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Our annual Fire Science and Fire Investigation course is being taught this week. Here's Prof @rorymiles explaining fire behaviour to some of our delegates. 🔥

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The SFPE European Conference & Expo on Fire Safety Engineering is happening in Edinburgh this week and (of course) some of our students and staff are there, including Prof. Emeritus Dougal Drysdale! 🔥 @SfpeUoe

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PhD student “Capybara” Liao presenting his work at the International Symposium on Tunnel Safety & Security (ISTSS) in Reykjavik today. 🔥🚇

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PhD student Mohammed presenting his poster at the FIVE: Fires in Vehicles conference in Reykjavik today.

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We welcomed new cohorts of MSc students on the IMFSE and Fire Engineering Science programmes yesterday. Here they are with Prof. @rorymiles and the statue of James Braidwood. 🔥

[Rory Hadden @rorymiles]

Happy #PrideMonth! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

In the @EdinburghFire lab we are celebrating our LGBT+ students, staff, and collaborators with Rainbow Explosions! 🏳️‍🌈💥

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#PrideInEngineering #Diversity @PrideEdinburgh

How we did it 🧵 (don’t try this at home!) (1/8)

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Our researchers Dr Rory Hadden and Sergio Vargas-Cordoba have worked with artist Katie Paterson on #ToBurnForestFire – an exhibition now showing at #TalbotRice Gallery which observes planetary #wildfire in real time.

Visit before 17 Feb 2024 ➡️ https://t.co/Prs54Jdd1j

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This week we welcomed five @IntMaFSE @imfse students in their final semester to Edinburgh. They're here to do some fiery research. But first, some tasty Venezuelan food! 🌮🔥

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New Episode! "129 - Backdraught and Underventilated Fires with Dr. Ricky Carvel"

In today's episode, we go into the practical consequences of having an underventilated fire - that is the possibility…

Player links & show notes: https://t.co/xCUoaQsS3I

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I really should have tagged @dirushuk @welchsUK and @rickycarvel in there.

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It was the Engineering Winter Graduation ceremony today. Here's a photo of some of our Structural and Fire Safety Engineering MSc graduates, with a few fiery staff. 🔥🏗️

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New Episode! "128 - Fire Safety Engineering with Dr. Ricky Carvel"

Dear friends of the Fire Science Show, and listeners of the Smart Passive Income Podcast - today is some sort of a special broadcas…

Player links & show notes: https://t.co/sMnjRNhLrO

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A great time is being had this week at the #IAFSS2023 conference in Tsukuba, Japan. This is a photo of Edinburgh Fire people, past and present!

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Usually we burn things in the name of science, but today we were burning things in the name of art!
Artist Aura Satz (https://t.co/GXuMVWKo4z) and cinematographer Luke Fowler (https://t.co/VUkjPOhwAd) came to burn emergency warning beacons for a film. For release in April 2024.

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Today is the poster day for our SAFE MSc class, marking the end of their studies here. Congratulations to all who made it here!

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Our annual ‘Fire Science & Fire Investigation’ course is running this week. Here’s some of our delegates watching some demos in the lab. 🔥🔍

[Edinburgh Fire @EdinburghFire]

Our annual ‘Fire Science & Fire Investigation’ course is running this week. Here’s some of our delegates watching some demos in the lab. 🔥🔍

[Rory Hadden @rorymiles]

New paper! https://t.co/7zg92uSf6F We look at the effect of the structure of natural fuels on heat transfer mechanisms driving #FlameSpread. In-bed heating from the #combustion zone is super important but flame heating varies with fuel load #wildfires #WhenIsAClumpAClump