Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires 🔥

🔊🔥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 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 20 April centreforwildfires.org/leverhulme-wil…

📢🔥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 nature.com/articles/s4146…

🔥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 centreforwildfires.org/leverhulme-wil… #wildfire

🔥🌍 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 🔗 e-graduate.tuc.gr #PhD #Wildfires #MSCA

🔥 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 🔗 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ge…

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 eventbrite.co.uk/e/fire-in-prac…

🌍 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: eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-and-… #YouthSummit #Sustainability

🔥 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

🔗 centreforwildfires.org/news/call-for-…

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 🔗findaphd.com/phds/project/w… #PhD #FIREMOD

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. 🔗 centreforwildfires.org/news/fires-far… #WildfireResearch #FireManagement

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? : 🔗 centreforwildfires.org/news/call-for-…

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: doi.org/10.1029/2024EF… 
#FireScience #LeverhulmeWildfires

💧 New research! Wildfires impact rivers worldwide! High-latitude flows drop up to 16%, mid-latitudes rise slightly. Global patterns show the complex fire–water–climate link. 🌍🔥💦 📖nature.com/articles/s4324… #WildfireResearch #Hydrology #ClimateChange #FireEcology

Linked with our Centre's broader work on fire and justice #justfire, we ran a workshop yesterday on Equity in Integrated Fire Management as part of @FIRE_ADAPT Argentina study hub. Great engagement and interesting conversations!

Shout-out to Rahina Sidiki Alare (KCL Geography, ESRC LISS-DTP) for her role in the Duality of Flames mural + policy brief on fire governance in N. Ghana. Her PhD explores trade-offs between traditional & govt fire management in savanna woodlands. 🌎 🔗 centreforwildfires.org/news/equitable…

📸 At this year’s Reveil Festival, the @EurecaPro TUC team launched Sustainability and Wildfires Through the Researcher’s Lens: a photography exhibition highlighting local & global dimensions of wildfire research 🔗 eurecapro.tuc.gr/en/news/item/p… 
#Wildfires #ClimateAction #EURECAPRO

Delighted to introduce you to 𝗢𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗮 𝗛𝗮𝗮𝘀! 👋 Olivia is a postdoctoral researcher at @UniofReading @UniRdg_Research, where she leads the fire-vegetation work group. She also collaborates with @centrewildfires. 🔥 Watch this video to learn about her work for #FIREADAPT, within the area of expertise 'Modelling and forecasting' (WP4). 🔥🌳🖥 #modelling #WildfireResearch #IntegratedFireManagement #FireScience

🔥 We’re hiring! Join the Leverhulme Wildfire Centre & University of Reading as a PDRA in Fire Management Modelling on the LEMONTREE project. 📍 The University of Reading
📅 Apply by 5 Sept 2025
🔗 jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?… #ClimateAction #WildfireResearch #PostdocOpportunity

📢 New publication from centre member Erika Piroli! “Promoting Stakeholder Interaction to Facilitate Wildfire Management” explores how governance & institutions shape wildfire risk in the Mediterranean 🔥🌍 Read more : onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ee… #Wildfires #LeverhulmeWildfires