Kerryn Little

Kerryn Little, Research Fellow and Head of School Research Support at the University of Birmingham (board member since 2025) Kerryn is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Birmingham. Kerryn started her fire career as a rural volunteer with Fire and Emergency New Zealand before moving to the UK to complete a PhD in Geography as part of the European ITN ‘PyroLife’. Kerryn is interested in understanding the interacting controls on fuel moisture, fire weather and fire danger across spatiotemporal scales, including compounding and cascading hazards, fire-climate interactions and live fuel moisture content, towards improving our ability to predict extreme fire conditions. She has co-led the development of a fire behaviour prediction system for the UK as part of the “Towards a UK Fire Danger Rating System” project and is the current UK-representative on the COST Action project “NERO – European Network on Extreme fire behaviOr”. She is passionate about bringing people together and increasing collaboration between historically fire prone and emerging fire prone regions (especially temperate environments experiencing increasing wildfire risk).