Research and consultancy
with the police and fire service with a particular emphasis on formal
and informal cultures, modernisation, entreprenerial thinking, change
management, resistance, racism, sexism and equality. Women fire
fighters, women in the fire service police, policing and equality in
the police and fire service - the fitting-in website where academia
and the fire service can meet to discuss fire service culture and other
matters- a resource for research and consultancy for the fire and rescue
service and firefighters and police and policing- Organised by Dr Dave
Baigent this site provides a place to share and publish your own research,
to look at what others have written about the fire and police service
and to ask about our commercial offerings.
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Academics are not the experts,
managers in the emergency services are the experts.
What fitting-in can do is help managers to use their expertise.
Theory without practice
is a waste - practice without theory may just be dumb.
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Fitting-in
seeks to work with the experts – those leaders of the fire and
rescue service who were chosen for their decision-making skills.
We are just back from
working with leaders in the Swedish
Fire Service and they have said
"Fitting-in with
their unique insight into real world fire service culture and a firm
theoretical base in academia provided the MSB (The Swedish Civil Contingencies
Agency) with invaluable expert advice and assistance in developing
a national action plan targeted at increasing equality and diversity
in the Swedish fire service.
Working
with Swedish Chief Officers and the Civil Contigencies agency
April 2009 (see their report)
Since 2001 Fitting-in
has also provided a free space for the
fire and rescue service and academia to meet and share research. This
free service continues and people are invited to send their work to be
published on this site.
'Rising
to the Challenge': - Can we discuss with you how fitting-in may be
able to help you with the points raised by the Audit Commission's report?
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No
longer
“long on rhetoric and short on answers,” fitting-in are
now there to assist the leaders of the Fire and Rescue Service in providing
answers.
We are out
of the ivory tower and using our developing perspective on fire service
culture, leadership, management and change management, education, research
and training (gained in moving the 360 degrees from firefighter to academic
and now back again to practitioners).
Snapshot
Audits: - three days of research a verbal and written report
cost £3000: they are a new concept developed especially for the
MFRS that led to them saying:
"The
Service are delighted with the research and reports produced by "Fitting-in.
We believe that your original hypothesis and work undertaken in Merseyside
has resulted in a ground breaking piece of work that can only serve
to inform the wider fire and rescue communities."
Ethos research
undertaken by Fitting-in, with Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service and
the FBU, suggested that if people were offered a choice and
if cooperation could be achieved in warming up one part of the cultural
sea, then it could be possible to start a chain reaction that could
transform the service. Ethos
2 suggested how that could be done and the draft Ethos 3 report added
to the model for cultural change.
If you want
to look afresh at an old difficulty, respond to something new or carry
out an impact assessment, then ask how fast we can turn around our research
in an efficient, rigorous and economic way.
Fitting-in
can also cater for your traditional research needs and you may wish
to tap into our expertise - contact
us to see what we can offer
Elite
Workshops:- are stand alone one day packages for senior
managers and authority members on a whole raft of areas.
Subjects covered
include fire service culture(s), the employment
of women as firefighters, change management,
initial training. We can offer a whole
host of education and training packages. These workshops have a primary
aim of seeking solutions and will be customised to your requirements
- they can also be used as team building days for your senior managers.
We also offer
a workshop for people who are having difficulty in understanding how
equality works and what diversity means; people who may need to spend
some time reviewing their attitudes
Looking
for agreement on budget cuts?: - It is part of New Labour's
ideology to continually push for more efficiency by using the budget as
a lever for change.
The pressure
on FRS budgets is therefore likely to continue. Whilst FRS's will no
doubt have planned for such an outcome we have something to offer.
We can meet
with your strategic thinkers about how they think the budget can be
managed. Then we will facilitate a workshop based around our findings
(their ideas) with a view to gaining a consensus on the way forward.
Further support
will always be available through research and consultancy for any projects
undertaken as a result of any work we carry out for you.
References:
see what Merseyside Fire and Rescue, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of
Fire Services, Swedish Fire Servuce and Tom Carroll (Past president of
CFOA ) and others have said.
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We are just back
from working with leaders in the Swedish Fire Service and they have
said:
"Fitting-in
with their unique insight into real world fire service culture
and a firm theoretical base in academia provided the MSB (The
Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency) with invaluable expert advice
and assistance in developing a national action plan targeted at
increasing equality and diversity in the Swedish fire service."
This is what Merseyside
Fire and Rescue Service had to say about the Ethos
research, communications and training project:
"The
Service are delighted with the research and reports produced by
"Fitting-in. We believe that your original hypothesis and
work undertaken in Merseyside has resulted in a ground breaking
piece of work that can only serve to inform the wider fire and
rescue communities."
References:
see what Merseyside Fire and Rescue, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of
Fire Services and Tom Carroll (retired Chief Fire Officer and Past president
of CFOA ) and others have said.
For
further information or just to talk about what fitting-in can provide
ring Dr Dave Baigent (GradIFireE) 07802 495 329 or email
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