Researching all things Fiery at Edinburgh University for over fifty years.
Joined May 2009
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27 Aug 2025
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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16 Jun 2025
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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10 Apr 2025
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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10 Apr 2025
PhD student “Capybara” Liao presenting his work at the International Symposium on Tunnel Safety & Security (ISTSS) in Reykjavik today. 🔥🚇
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7 Apr 2025
PhD student Mohammed presenting his poster at the FIVE: Fires in Vehicles conference in Reykjavik today.
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19 Sep 2024
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. 🔥
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21 Jun 2024
Happy #PrideMonth! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
In the @EdinburghFire lab we are celebrating our LGBT students, staff, and collaborators with Rainbow Explosions! 🏳️🌈💥
@SchoolOfEng_UoE @EdinburghUni
#PrideInEngineering #Diversity @PrideEdinburgh
How we did it 🧵 (don’t try this at home!) (1/8)
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23 Jan 2024
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 ➡️ edin.ac/3udShGC
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24 Nov 2023
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: firescienceshow.com/129-back…
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23 Nov 2023
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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22 Nov 2023
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: firescienceshow.com/128-fire…
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26 Oct 2023
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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1 Sep 2023
Usually we burn things in the name of science, but today we were burning things in the name of art!
Artist Aura Satz (lux.org.uk/artist/aura-satz) and cinematographer Luke Fowler (luke-fowler.com) came to burn emergency warning beacons for a film. For release in April 2024.
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22 Aug 2023
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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13 Jun 2023
Our annual ‘Fire Science & Fire Investigation’ course is running this week. Here’s some of our delegates watching some demos in the lab. 🔥🔍
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20 Apr 2023
New paper! doi.org/10.1071/WF22129 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
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