Improving understanding of the activities carried out in the fire system and their effectiveness.

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Crimes such as homicide and theft, and drugs such as heroin and cocaine have always been of public concern, and there has been a recent focus on areas such as child sexual abuse, modern slavery, new psychoactive substances, online fraud, and online indecent images of children.

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Areas of research interest relevant to the Home Office GOVUK

Related UKRI funded projects

  • University of Greenwich and Kent Fire and Rescue Service

    To develop new expertise within the fire service to build and embed a knowledge-base and research capabilty, initially directed at reducing fire-related deaths and injuries....

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH

    Why might this be relevant?

    This project aims to develop expertise within the fire service to reduce fire-related deaths and injuries, aligning with the goal of improving understanding of fire system activities.

  • ENHANCING UNDERSTANDING OF WILDFIRE BEHAVIOR AND SUPPRESSION WITHIN THE UK FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICE

    Late April - May (2011) saw a widely reported UK 'wildfire crisis', including in very highly populated areas (e.g. Berkshire). Wildfires in moorlands, heathlands, woodlands and forests affected England, Scotland, Wales a...

    Funded by: NERC

    Lead research organisation: King's College London

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project aims to enhance understanding of wildfire behavior and suppression within the UK Fire and Rescue Service, which partially addresses the question by improving understanding of fire activities and their effectiveness.

  • Toward a UK fire danger rating system: Understanding fuels, fire behaviour and impacts

    Wildfires have traditionally been perceived as a threat confined to regions such as Southern Europe or Australia. However, the global wildfire threat is expanding and recognition of wildfire hazard in the UK has grown su...

    Funded by: NERC

    Lead research organisation: University of Manchester

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project specifically addresses the need for a UK fire danger rating system to understand fuels, fire behavior, and impacts, which aligns with the question about improving understanding of activities in the fire system.

  • A Risk-Based Fire and Rescue Management System

    Fires in the UK kill about 800 people and cause non-fatal injures to 15,000 every year. For the past 60 years provision for emergency fire-fighting response (i.e. fire cover) in the UK has been based on the density of th...

    Funded by: EPSRC

    Lead research organisation: Liverpool John Moores University

  • Measurement and Prediction of Fire Smoke Toxicity of Materials in Enclosures.

    Unwanted fires continue to account for a significant loss of life, damage to property, damage to business and damage to the environment. Meanwhile the cost of prevention and protection measures adds a substantial drain t...

    Funded by: EPSRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Lancashire

  • Evaluation of Prevention and Protection Activities on Commercial, Public and Heritage Buildings

    Risks that affect the built environment and threaten human life are becoming major societal issues in the 21st century. Managing these risks and responding to emergencies such as fires, floods, and terrorist attacks is i...

    Funded by: EPSRC

    Lead research organisation: Loughborough University

  • Knowledge for Wildfire

    The UK has an under-reported wildfire problem. Uncontrolled vegetation fires cause severe environmental damage and economic and social disruption when weather conditions are right, as in spring 2011. Wildfires are costly...

    Funded by: NERC

    Lead research organisation: University of Manchester

  • Improving the resilience of informal settlements to fire (IRIS-Fire)

    This high-impact project is concerned with how an interdisciplinary approach to fire science and engineering can improve the resilience of informal settlements against fires. Through a combination of state-of-the-art exp...

    Funded by: GCRF

    Lead research organisation: University of Edinburgh

  • Fire Sentry

    Of all the problems that can occur in a mine, underground fire is the worst with the greatest loss of life and financial impact. Fires in coal mines quickly use up available oxygen leading to the death of any underground...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: TROLEX LIMITED

  • Prediction of toxic species in fire

    Most fire deaths are associated with the remote transport of toxic products produced in hot post-flashover fires, and with carbon monoxide (CO) in particular [S1, S2]. Currently, numerical tools are effective at describi...

    Funded by: EPSRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Edinburgh

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on predicting toxic species in fires, which is related to understanding activities in the fire system, but does not directly address the effectiveness of these activities.