Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society

Another talk for your diaries! Multi-sectoral reflections on economic resilience to wildfires with Elena Gorriz-Mifsud 📅Tue, Oct 27 • 11 AM GMT 🎟️https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/multi-sectoral-reflections-on-economic-resilience-to-wildfires-tickets-2003815294487 #wildfires

🔥 Join us and Université d'Antananarivo for an introduction to fire research in global, African and Malagasy contexts. 🌍 Particularly relevant to students and practitioners in Madagascar and across Africa, but open to all! Register for your free ticket👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti...

Dr Yadav: "Wildfires through an Agrarian Lens: Environmental Change, Social Reproduction, and Disaster Management in the Indian Himalaya" 📅Oct 27@5pm 🎟️https://aqs.org.uk/event/wildfires-through-an-agrarian-lens-environmental-change-social-reproduction-and-disaster-management-in-the-indian-himalaya/

Some interesting fire seminars as part of the FIREPOL workshop series coming up- 28th and 29th October, 9am-11am. Joining link here: www.firepol.eu/firepol-work... #wildfires #FIREPOL

🔥 Making fire modelling more accessible and useful for wildfire management. Michel Valette attended to co-chair 2 sessions.🌎 41 participants from 7 countries joined the event, led by the Global Wildfire Collective. Read more 👇 centreforwildfires.org/news/updates...

🔥Following the African Fire Dialogue in Ethiopia, Wildfires researcher Rahina Alare reflects on the importance of putting communities, local knowledge and livelihoods at the heart of building fire-resilient landscapes. Read the blog 👇 centreforwildfires.org/news/african...

🔥How are transformations in rural life reshaping our relationship with fire? 5 Wildfires Centre researchers brought global perspectives to #RGSIBG2026 exploring the connections between agrarian change, fire use and wildfire. Read more 👇 centreforwildfires.org/news/rural-t...

🔥 INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE & SUSTAINABILITY YOUTH SUMMIT 2026. Are you aged 16–30 and passionate about climate action? Join us: 📅 21 November | 2–6pm 📍 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social , London 🎟️ Find out more & register: eventbrite.co.uk/e/internatio... #unaclimateocean

🔥Upcoming webinar, 9th Sept, 3pm BST Living with Wildfire: Imagining, Narrating and Acting upon a Changing Climate, with Aysem Mert, Stockholm University www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/seminar-li... #wildfires

Our final theme asked: what futures for the fire in the Earth system are plausible- and which should we aim for?

Our next session is underway, asking: How can fire policymaking and management br made more integrative, equitable and adaptive? #LeverhulmeWildfires2026

Day 2 of the Leverhulme Wildfires Summer Conference 2026 started with our fourth theme, which asks the question: What consequences and trade-offs arise from fire management ans preparedness strategies? #LeverhulmeWildfires2026

Our third conference asked the question: How do fires impact biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human health and well-being? #LeverhulmeWildfires2026

Our second conference theme ask the question- how does fire interect with atmospheric composition, the carbon-cycle and climate? #LeverhulmeWildfires2026

Our summer conference is underway! We start with the question: what controls landscape burning, and how can we better anticipate and detect these events? #leverhulmewildfires2026

🔥LEVERHULME WILDFIRES SUMMER CONFERENCE 2026 📆21- 22 July 2026 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social ****Registration Deadline tomorrow, 9th July **** Register for free: 🌐 Website: centreforwildfires.org/leverhulme-w...

Thank you to CMCC - Centro Euro Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici - for the fantastic collaboration for London Climate Action Week #LCAW on Wildfire Prediction and Risk Management, which we hosted at King's College London Thank you to all our fantastic speakers too.

🔥We are happy to share the Agenda, including confirmed speakers, for the Leverhulme Wildfires Summer Conference 2026 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social Agenda: centreforwildfires.org/wp-content/upl… Register for free: https://centreforwildfires.org/leverhulme-wildfires-summer-conference-2026/

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. globalwildfirecollective.org/event/fire-m...

Good morning colleagues! 🔥 🙌 As promised here is the new blogpost about our recent paper 👇 go.nature.com/4uIkGPd Hope you enjoy it and let us know, what do you think! 💬 @afe-fireecology.bsky.social @agirona.bsky.social @fuegored.bsky.social @fireurisk.eu

🔥 Join the Global Wildfire Collective webinar to hear Dr. Abigail Croker discuss her research on fire in savanna ecosystems — covering climate change, decentralized management & resilience in East & Southern Africa. Register: globalwildfirecollective.org/event/wildfi...

Join us tomorrow, 28th April, 4pm BST for this Global Wildfire Collective webinar which includes presentations from some of our Centre members, including Amos Chege Muthiuru (below). #Wildfires #bushfire #firegovernace

🔥 Fire, savannas & global change — join us April 28 for a live webinar featuring @sallyarchibald.bsky.social exploring fire ecology, savanna ecosystems, and earth-system feedbacks. A conversation you won't want to miss! 🌿

🔥LEVERHULME WILDFIRES SUMMER CONFERENCE 2026 📆21- 22 July 2026 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social 📋Free Registration - Deadline 9 July 🔊Call for Abstracts - Research and Art - Deadline 20 April 🌍ECR Travel Bursary 📸ECR Photography Competition 🌐Conference website: centreforwildfires.org/leverhulme-w...

🔊🔥PhD Opportunity on Wildfires and Climate Risk, with a focus on Europe and Africa. Based at our Affiliate Organisation, Technical University of Crete supervised by our Associate Director, Prof Apostolos Voulgarakis #Wildfires #climatechange euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/410472

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 20th April centreforwildfires.org/leverhulme-w...

📢🔥We are excited to share our new paper in Nature Communications, a collaboration between several of our Centre colleagues, led by Dr Kapil Yadav. We focus on the Kananaskis Fire Charter launched at the G7 Summit in 2025. #wildfires www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔥LEVERHULME WILDFIRES SUMMER CONFERENCE 2026 📆 21- 22July 2026 Imperial College London 🔊 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS now open - oral/ poster presentations, artwork exhibits 🌿Six themes ⏱️Abstract deadline 20 April 📋Registration opening soon (free) 🌐 Conference website: centreforwildfires.org/leverhulme-w... 🔥

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 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fire-in-pr...

🔊🔥Join us for our next "Fire in Practice: Conversations with Wildfire Practitioners" webinar! When: Wed 23rd July, 10.30-11:30am (BST) (online/ in person at KCL). Speaker: Sam Johnston, International Savanna Fire Management Initiative www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fire-in-pr...

🔊🔥 Two PhD opportunities available with one of our centres Supervisors, Francesco Restuccia, at King’s College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. They will be funded through ERC and present brilliant opportunities with an equally brilliant supervisor! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Congratulations to our Centre Manager, Adriana Ford, for winning the Staff Category of the @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social Faculty of Natural Sciences Image Competition, with her photo "Purposeful Flames", taken at the @FIRE_ADAPT Brazil Study Hub!🔥🇧🇷 imperial.ac.uk/natural-scienc…

🔊🔥SAVE THE DATE for the Leverhulme Wildfires Summer Conference 2026, to be held at Imperial College London on Tuesday 21st July 2026. Watch this space for more information coming soon! #WildfireResearch #ClimateResilience #EnvironmentalScience #LeverhulmeWildfires #FireScience

🔊Imperial College London Natural Sciences image competition exhibition, 2nd April! We're happy to represent #wildfires through Adriana Ford's shortlisted entry "Purposeful Flames' taken in Brazil in the FIRE-ADAPT project. Can't make it? View the shortlisted photos and vote here: lnkd.in/es5Z8xMA

Latest from our Just Fire team! 🔥 New paper on global human-fire interactions led by Cathy Smith out April 2025. 🔥 ESRC grant for work on Indigenous fire knowledge in Kenya. 🔥 Congrats to Abi Croker, now Postdoc at Princeton! centreforwildfires.org/news/giraffe-t… #WildfireResearch

📢 Call for abstracts! Centre researchers are convening a fire modelling session at the International Congress of Fire in the Earth System — Abstract submissions welcome! 🔗 The Congress website for more information and abstract submission: firecongress.eu #Wildfires #fire

Just a few days to go to apply for this exciting PhD opportunity at the Centre on environmental justice in fire governance through arts-based approaches @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social NB International fees are covered, so it's open worldwide!

📢New blog post by our Centre member Farrer Owsley-Brown @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social #wildfires - how potassium in biomass could improve emissions estimates

We have an exciting new PhD opportunity, exploring #environmentaljustice in #firegovernance through arts-based approaches. Based at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, supervised by Adriana Ford and @eliapos.bsky.social Apply by 3rd March #politicalecology centreforwildfires.org/news/phd-in-...

New blog post by Alex Mines, our new PhD student at CEP @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, on the LA wildfires and how prioritising resiliency strategies can help insurance markets and wildland-urban interface communities #lawildfire #wildfires centreforwildfires.org/news/l-a-wil...

The room was almost overspilling at the Geography departmental seminar today @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social such was the interest in Doug Kelley's (from CEH) talk about the State of Wildfires. #wildfires You can view the latest report here: essd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...

Our Centre Associate Director Prof Apostolos Voulgarakis @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social contributes to this Time magazine article on the #LAwildfires, where he explains the role of the dry Santa Ana winds and climate change #wildfires time.com/7205622/cali...

Congratulations to our Associate Director, Prof Martin Wooster at King's College London, for being made an MBE for his contribution to wildfire science! 👏🥳 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-e...

Hello World! I'm Luke, a PhD student at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, NCEO, & @centrewildfires.bsky.social studying peatland wildfires 🔥🌿: their emissions, climate impact, and human health effects. My work utilises infrared remote sensing, earth observation, and a lot of soil.

🔉🔥Our second free webinar this week is on Wed 27th Nov 14:30-15:30 "Revisiting fire management in Ghana: Integrating historical practices, institutional dynamics and collaborative approaches", with Godwin Dzekoto from A Rocha Ghana www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fire-in-pr... #wildfire #firemanagement

🔉🔥We have two webinars this week - please register for free on Eventbrite! The first is on Mexico's challenging path towards integrated and intercultural fire management by Christoph Neger and Laura Ponce Calderón Tues 26th Nov 16:00-17:00 GMT #wildfires #IFM www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leverhulme...