Description of Call for Papers at RGS Annual International Conference. Session is titled "Burning Inequalities: Critical Geographies of Fire". Session Conveners: Aisling O’Rourke (University of Manchester) and Prof. Gareth Clay (University of Manchester). Page 1 of 2.
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Session Abstract
Where and why fire impacts people and places is deeply intertwined with many facets of inequality and injustice. This session aims to contribute to discussions around the role of geographical perspectives in conceptualising and researching fire inequality.
The devastating fires of Grenfell Tower in 2017 and more recently at Wang Fuk Court in Hong Kong in 2025 serve as stark reminders that we must understand and redress inequalities that have shaped exposure to fire. Fires like Grenfell do not exist in a vacuum, instead they can expose and uncover inequalities and injustice embedded within our societies (Marmot, 2020). Scholars who have explored the contexts surrounding Grenfell in particular, have asserted the importance of foregrounding the role of racial logics of neoliberal urban governance (Danewid, 2020), geographies of injustice and inequality (MacLeod, 2018) and, institutional negligence and evasion of accountability (Özbilgin, Erbil and Valsecchi, 2026) in fomenting fire inequalities.
Geographical perspectives and geographical imaginaries can be harnessed to explore the spatiality of these overlapping and intersecting inequalities, and the mechanisms through which they emerge and are sustained.
We invite abstracts that explore how geographical perspectives can be applied to researching fire inequality, in both built environment and wildfire contexts
Description of Call for Papers at RGS Annual International Conference. Session is titled "Burning Inequalities: Critical Geographies of Fire". Session Conveners: Aisling O’Rourke (University of Manchester) and Prof. Gareth Clay (University of Manchester). Page 2 of 2.
The full abstract details don't fit in the character limit for alt text but the a shortened version is as follows:
Examples of themes include:
- How inequality and injustice shape where fires occur and who is affected
- The role of housing governance and policy in generating or tackling fire risk inequalities.
- The role of social, economic and political institutions in perpetuating fire inequality, or, addressing fire inequalities
- How fire inequality intersects with other social, political, economic and environmental inequalities
- How geographers can theorise precarity, risk and vulnerability to fire
- How to address and reduce fire inequalities
- What are the taken for granted assumptions and discourses around fire inequality that need to be challenged?
If you are interested in contributing to the session, please email your presentation title, abstract (up to 250 words), name(s) of presenters and affiliations.
Please send email Aisling and Gareth these details by 27th February 2026 and feel free to get in touch if you have any queries – aisling.orourke-2@manchester.ac.uk and Gareth.clay@manchester.ac.uk
Please note that the deadline for session details and presentation abstracts is 6th March 2026, we will be in touch as soon as we can with further details.
Call for Papers @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Meeting 'Burning Inequalities: Critical Geographies of Fire'. Deadline 27 Feb
Full details can be found attached or via main RGS list of advertised Calls for Papers tinyurl.com/mu38e575.
Please share!
@aisling-orourke.bsky.social #geosky #fire
05.02.2026 10:42
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New paper!
We took our peatland moss expertise and methods and applied it to fill and spill water storage dynamics to examine the hydrological controls on rock barrens moss and lichen mat growth. Mat NPP increases with increasing bedrock depression storage.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
19.02.2026 14:13
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Description of Call for Papers at RGS Annual International Conference. Session is titled "Burning Inequalities: Critical Geographies of Fire". Session Conveners: Aisling O’Rourke (University of Manchester) and Prof. Gareth Clay (University of Manchester). Page 1 of 2.
The full abstract details don't fit in the character limit for alt text but the a shortened version is as follows:
Session Abstract
Where and why fire impacts people and places is deeply intertwined with many facets of inequality and injustice. This session aims to contribute to discussions around the role of geographical perspectives in conceptualising and researching fire inequality.
The devastating fires of Grenfell Tower in 2017 and more recently at Wang Fuk Court in Hong Kong in 2025 serve as stark reminders that we must understand and redress inequalities that have shaped exposure to fire. Fires like Grenfell do not exist in a vacuum, instead they can expose and uncover inequalities and injustice embedded within our societies (Marmot, 2020). Scholars who have explored the contexts surrounding Grenfell in particular, have asserted the importance of foregrounding the role of racial logics of neoliberal urban governance (Danewid, 2020), geographies of injustice and inequality (MacLeod, 2018) and, institutional negligence and evasion of accountability (Özbilgin, Erbil and Valsecchi, 2026) in fomenting fire inequalities.
Geographical perspectives and geographical imaginaries can be harnessed to explore the spatiality of these overlapping and intersecting inequalities, and the mechanisms through which they emerge and are sustained.
We invite abstracts that explore how geographical perspectives can be applied to researching fire inequality, in both built environment and wildfire contexts
Description of Call for Papers at RGS Annual International Conference. Session is titled "Burning Inequalities: Critical Geographies of Fire". Session Conveners: Aisling O’Rourke (University of Manchester) and Prof. Gareth Clay (University of Manchester). Page 2 of 2.
The full abstract details don't fit in the character limit for alt text but the a shortened version is as follows:
Examples of themes include:
- How inequality and injustice shape where fires occur and who is affected
- The role of housing governance and policy in generating or tackling fire risk inequalities.
- The role of social, economic and political institutions in perpetuating fire inequality, or, addressing fire inequalities
- How fire inequality intersects with other social, political, economic and environmental inequalities
- How geographers can theorise precarity, risk and vulnerability to fire
- How to address and reduce fire inequalities
- What are the taken for granted assumptions and discourses around fire inequality that need to be challenged?
If you are interested in contributing to the session, please email your presentation title, abstract (up to 250 words), name(s) of presenters and affiliations.
Please send email Aisling and Gareth these details by 27th February 2026 and feel free to get in touch if you have any queries – aisling.orourke-2@manchester.ac.uk and Gareth.clay@manchester.ac.uk
Please note that the deadline for session details and presentation abstracts is 6th March 2026, we will be in touch as soon as we can with further details.
Call for Papers @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Meeting 'Burning Inequalities: Critical Geographies of Fire'. Deadline 27 Feb
Full details can be found attached or via main RGS list of advertised Calls for Papers tinyurl.com/mu38e575.
Please share!
@aisling-orourke.bsky.social #geosky #fire
05.02.2026 10:42
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🔥 Call for Papers: Wildland–Urban Interface Fires 🌳🏠
Submission deadline extended to 1 March 2026.
We welcome research on fire dynamics, risk modelling, exposure & impacts, mitigation, recovery, and community resilience.
🔗: connectsci.au/wf/pages/cal...
#FireScience #WUI #IJWildlandFire
19.01.2026 04:04
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Fig. 1. Graphic showing the three layers of relationships investigated in this paper, from top to bottom: synoptic weather patterns surface fire weather – vegetation fires. Mean sea level pressure (MSLP) anomalies and Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) values are for June 26, 2018, the day the Saddleworth Moor Fire in England was declared a major incident, which remains one of the largest fires experienced in the UK at 18 km2 (Graham et al. 2020). The vegetation fire layer shows all spring (blue) and summer (orange) vegetation fires >1 ha recorded between April 2009 and April 2020.
🔥 New research shows how surface fire weather + synoptic weather patterns lead to vegetation fires across England
06.01.2026 17:32
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Were you impacted by the 2025 #UKwildfires? 🔥 The FiRES survey “Living with Wildfire in the UK and Ireland” has been re-opened to enable people to share their direct or indirect experiences of #wildfires or associated smoke. Please share/ re-post. www.surveymonkey.com/r/firesukie
01.11.2025 11:35
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Here's a map of UK fire activity in 2025.
2025 was a record year for both number of fires and burnt area in the UK, according to the satellite record.
Data from EFFIS, based on MODIS and Sentinel observations.
🔥#ukwildfires #wildfires
29.10.2025 16:14
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Our latest #PeatPaper published in Hydrological Processes and led by MSc student Maia Moore!
“Ecohydrological Controls on Post-Fire Sphagnum Moss Recovery in Boreal Shield Peatlands”
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
28.10.2025 12:33
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🚨 Expressions of Interest Now Open! 🚨
Are you a new #PhD student in #geomorphology who started in 2025? Or are you supervising a new PhD student in geomorphology? Don’t miss the chance to join the @bsg-geomorph.bsky.social Windsor PhD Training Workshop. 1/
07.10.2025 12:29
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Looking for a PhD in environmental science? I will soon have an advert out for a project at @liverpooluni.bsky.social with @ukceh.bsky.social & @nationaltrust.org.uk.
"Peatland drainage + rewetting across the UK uplands + lowlands"
All about GHG emissions and aquatic carbon. Watch this space!
16.10.2025 12:36
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🚨New Paper 🚨
The PeatPic Project: Predicting plot-scale green leaf #phenology across #peatlands
So happy to see this paper online — one of my favourite projects!
We explored how to capture how peatlands change colour using smartphones and community science!
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
13.10.2025 12:29
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For a peat to form you don't just need wet conditions you also need stagnant conditions
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Our new study follows the thermodynamic profiles to show how fens and bogs significantly differ in when they become closed. @durhamearthsci.bsky.social
22.09.2025 09:13
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🚨JOB ALERT🚨
We’re looking for a #Postdoc to play a key role in a new #interdiscipinary project on the risks to human health from mining activities across Africa.
Full details: shorturl.at/X7Tbr
@uomseed.bsky.social @globaldevinst.bsky.social @sustainableuom.bsky.social
#academicjobs #ECRjobs
05.09.2025 11:04
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The global and local distribution of Sphagnum and a detailed desciption of its anatomy.
#TansleyReview: The effects of #drought on #Sphagnum #moss species and the implications for hydrology in #peatlands
Keane et al. 👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue
08.08.2025 16:02
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Does your research involve fire and shrub fuels? 🔥🌿
Please submit to our special session:
"Shrubland fuels and their fire behaviour modelling challenges"
at the 11th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, New Orleans!
Abstracts due soon-15th July! afefirecongress.org/special-sess...
10.07.2025 12:40
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🔥Call for Papers: Wildland-Urban Interface Fires Special Collection in IJWF!🌳🏠🌳
Share research on fire dynamics, risk modelling, resilience & more. If you have any questions, reach out to the team.
📆 Submit by 31 Dec 2025
More Information: www.publish.csiro.au/wf/content/C...
#FireScience
13.06.2025 01:17
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Excited to share our new paper in Environmental Research: Water!
We studied how wildfires and drought mobilise legacy metal contaminants from peatlands, focusing on the 2018 Stalybridge Moor fire in the UK.
Read it here: iopscience.iop.org/journal/3033...
08.05.2025 10:04
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It was a pleasure to have you up in Manchester again. Great to hear about all the #communityscience work you're doing - look forward to see #PeatColours develop over the coming years! #PeatSky #peatlands
27.02.2025 18:09
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Session BG3.25
Polluted Peatland Landscapes: identifying problems and uncovering solutions meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
@garethclay.bsky.social @mercury-ecohydro.bsky.social
#PeatSky #PeatECR #PeatlandsMatter
19.11.2024 19:21
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For everyone pulling their #peatland abstracts together this week - don't forget the deadline for #EGU25 is next Wednesday 15th Jan 13:00 CET.
Check out the thread for a list of all the great #peatland sessions
#PeatSky #PeatECR #PeatlandsMatter @eurogeosciences.bsky.social
08.01.2025 11:05
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