Fire service research, the fitting-in website where academia and the fire service can meet - a resource for research and consultancy for the fire and rescue service and firefighters - Organised by Dr Dave Baigent this site provides a place to share your own research and to look at what others have written about the fire service
Academics are not the experts, fire and rescue service
managers are the experts.
What fitting-in can do is to help managers to recognise their
expertise and to further understand the issues through that recognition.
Workshops on fire service culture
One Decade On - Survey on women firefighters
How do I send my writing to fitting-in for publication
Cultural Audits
Dave Baigent's thesis 'One more last working class hero' was the first substantive cultural audit of the fire service.
This thesis was quickly followed by a commission to culturally audit a training centre.
Following this came 'Sunrise' a national audit of training centres and this provided an in-depth examination of current training and provided some powerful arguments for a new approach to help provide the type of firefighter that the fire and rescue service argues it needs.
Since then Dave has carried out other work but much of this remains confidential
Dave has written extensively on fire service culture and presented at a range of UK and international conferences
Who better to talk to than Dave or Sarah if you want a cultural audit - ring now on 07802 495 329 or email