Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires 🔥

Global wildfire research - predicting, understanding, quantifying and living with #wildfires
Imperial College, King's College, Reading and Royal Holloway

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🔥LEVERHULME WILDFIRES SUMMER CONFERENCE 2026🔥
📆21- 22 July 2026 @imperialcollege
📋Free Registration - Deadline 9 July
🔊Call for Abstracts - Research and Art - Deadline 20 April
🌍ECR Travel Bursary
📸ECR Photography Competition
🌐Conference website: https://t.co/yYBXYUVytd

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Join the Global Wildfire Collective on June 24–25 for a foundational training in fire modeling.

Learn how to match questions to models, interpret model outputs, understand model uncertainty, and make better decisions using probabilistic results.

https://t.co/a1r5QsfTPe

[Kings-NCEO: Earth Obs & Wildfire Research Group @KCLwildfire_EO]

Our postdoctoral research position is now available in Amazonian #CarbonFluxes, #Vegetation & #Fire working on the @esascience CarbonARA project alongside Brazilian & European partners. Apply by 8 June 26.
@NCEOscience @centrewildfires
@kclgeography https://t.co/O9YTq4O9E6

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Fieldwork highlights from the centre🔥

In Kenya, Amos Chege Muthiuru is leading an Integrated Fire Management Plan for Taita Taveta County

In Guyana, Will Hayes & Jay Mistry are working with Indigenous communities to understand fire and land management

#Wildfire #Fieldwork

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Lots of exciting new publications from the centre in 2026

Huge congrats!

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#Wildfire #FireScience #ClimateChange

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Webinar - April 28, 4pm BST, first in a two-part series providing an in-depth review of wildfire dynamics in savanna ecosystems.

Talks from some of our Centre members including @muthiuru and alumni @croker_abigail

https://t.co/bmg9uzqRW4...

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🔥 Come attend our webinar !
Wildfire in Savanna Ecosystems: Definitions and Diversity

📆 April 28th, 4pm

Don’t miss it!
#Wildfire #Savanna #FireEcology #EnvironmentalScience

https://t.co/JTgqJVaSAl

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🔊🔥PhD Opportunity on Wildfires and Climate Risk, with a focus on Europe and Africa.

Based at our Affiliate Organisation, Technical University of Crete @TUofCrete supervised by our Associate Director, Prof Apostolos Voulgarakis @atvoulgarakis

https://t.co/Y35eYWMftS

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We have two full bursaries available to Early Career Researchers and PhD students from least developed, low & lower middle-income countries to attend and present in our summer conference in London. Find out more at our conference website. Deadline 20 April
https://t.co/yYBXYUVytd

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📢🔥We are excited to share our new paper in @NatureComms, a collaboration between several of our Centre colleagues, led by @kapilyadav_1

We focus on the Kananaskis Fire Charter launched at the G7 Summit in 2025.

#Wildfires

https://t.co/jnRViHWDje

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🔥LEVERHULME WILDFIRES SUMMER CONFERENCE 2026
📆 21-22 July @imperialcollege
🔊 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS now open - oral, poster presentations, artwork exhibits
🌿Six themes
⏱️Abstract deadline 20 April
📋Registration opening soon
🌐Conference website
https://t.co/yYBXYUVytd
#wildfire

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🔥🌍 Fully funded PhD opportunity
PhD in Wildfires & Climate Risk (Europe & Africa) at the @tuc_chania within the MSCA CLIMES Doctoral Network.

📍 Crete, Greece
📅 Start Sept 2026
⏰ Apply by 30 April 2026
🔗 https://t.co/ScXnwOp1em

#PhD #Wildfires #MSCA

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🔥 New publication from the centre members Kapil Yadav & Henry Thompson

Adding Lines Along Pixels: Remote Sensing, Traditional Knowledge and Human–Fire Interactions in Ethiopia and India

🔗 https://t.co/vTfqEjOYxv

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Join us for our latest Fire in Practice webinar on Wed 3rd Dec 2-3pm GMT, with Danny Manning and Beth Rose Middleton Manning, on
Indigenous-led prescribed burning in northern California
#Wildfires #Indigenous

https://t.co/zobNv4Mqtk

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🌍 Leverhulme Wildfires Co-Hosts the Climate & Sustainability Youth Summit 2025 🔥

📅 Sat 22 Nov | 13:30–18:15
📍 Imperial College London, City & Guilds LT200
🔗 Click the link to find out keynote speakers and to register: https://t.co/NZEnpEYXvR

#YouthSummit #Sustainability

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🔥 Call for Chapters!

Share your research in: Sustainable Wildfire Solutions: Integrating Geospatial Tools, Indigenous Practices & Climate Adaptation 🌍

📘 Co-edited by Kapil Yadav & Rahina S. Alare

💡 Abstracts (≤200 words) due 30 Nov 2025

🔗 https://t.co/JEOaeMglGE

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PhD Opportunity: Wildfires & Climate Change 🔥

Fully funded PhD at King’s College London with Dr Francesco Restuccia (FIREMOD ERC). Study physics-based fire spread & join the Heat & Fire Lab.

📅 Apply by 7 Dec 2025
🚀 Start June 2026

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#PhD #FIREMOD

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New Blog: Fires, Farming and the Irish Uplands 🔥🌾

Kalin Pugh (Royal Holloway) writes about their fieldwork in West Cork, exploring how agricultural policy shapes upland fire practices and land management.

🔗 https://t.co/jWkLGgD3MR

#WildfireResearch #FireManagement

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Call for Papers: Power, Land, and Fire - Crisis Narratives and Burning Practices 🔥
Panel at #POLLEN2026: Diverse Origins, Multiple Futures - The Stories of Political Ecology.

Interested in presenting your work at the conference? :

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We’re celebrating new research from our team!

A new paper by Perkins et al. explores how human and ecological factors interact to shape global fire regimes using a coupled socio-ecological model.

Read it here: https://t.co/0KRXEcIGjT

#FireScience #LeverhulmeWildfires