REF eligible staff are invited to declare any circumstances that have impacted on their ability to research productively (e.g. extended periods of family-related leave, secondments or career breaks) during the REF 2021 assessment period.
The School's Fire Engineering Group have been working with the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) and the Scottish Branch of the Institution of Fire Engineers (IFE) to produce a series of "Fire Tech Talks" showcasing their research into fire-fighting tactics.
Sam is a PhD student at the Edinburgh Fire Research Centre studying techniques for modelling fire spread in informal urban environments, predominantly in Nairobi, Kenya, with a view to developing fire risk quantification methods.
Dr Rory Hadden has been working with engineers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Maryland, USA, the US Forest Service, and New Jersey Forest Fire Service to observe the behaviour of forest fires from within using a 360-degree water-cooled camera. The cutting-edge equipment provides scientists and engineers with the ability to see inside prescribed fires and potentially wildfires using virtual reality technologies together with footage captured using the 360-degree camera.
Nikolai Gerasimov, a postgraduate researcher in the School’s BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering, has won a Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers (WCSIM) research grant for an innovative advance in fire performance testing. The awards are given in recognition of projects which involve innovative scientific development, and enable recipients to become Society of Instrument Maker (SIM) Scholars.
On Monday 3rd September 2018, the School’s first commemorative plaques were unveiled to celebrate the achievements of three outstanding alumni, and the School’s first ever Regius Professor.
Congratulations to Dr Ricky Carvel, lecturer in Combustion and Fire Dynamics, who was runner up in the 'Best Course' category for his "Fire Science and Fire Dynamics" class at the EUSA Teaching Awards 2017/18, on Thursday 26th April.
Many congratulations to Edinburgh PhD graduate Dr Barbara Lane, Technology Group Leader at Arup and Visiting Professor of Fire Safety Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, on her election as Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng).
Dr Ricky Carvel, Lecturer in Combustion & Fire Dynamics in the Institute for Infrastructure and Environment, was honoured to receive the ISTSS Achievement Award 2018 at the 8th International Symposium on Tunnel Safety and Security in Borås, Sweden, on 15th March.
