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Dr.
Dave Baigent BA Honours, GradIFireE,
PhD dave.baigent@fitting-in.com
I have a lifetime’s
experience of working, researching, training, teaching and
consultancy in and on the fire and rescue service. Since 1993
my experience has extended to researching all uniformed public
services and teaching students on public service courses.
History
For over thirty
years I worked as an operational officer with the London
Fire Brigade, serving for over 20 of them as a Station Officer
at Tottenham and Edmonton fire stations. At a more strategic
level I also spent much of my service as a Fire Brigades
Union official serving as Area Secretary and then as London's
representative on the Officers National Committee.
On retirement
(1993) I studied at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
to complete a BA (Hons) in Sociology and Politics and research
for my Doctorate (on
fire service culture). This period of education provided
me with the opportunity to change from - in my words, “a
sexist, racist, homophobe to someone who now more fully
understands the results and reasons of such difficult attitudes
and their results for the individual and the service they
work in.” My ability to resocialise features
in and guides all my teaching and research.
From 1996-2001 I worked as a lecturer on the Public Service
BTEC courses at West Herts College.
In 2001 I wrote
the UK’s first Public Service Degree to help new entrants
and existing members of the emergency services with the
critical skills necessary to run tomorrow’s uniformed
services. The degree emphasises teaching on community participation,
service delivery, leadership, change management, modernisation
and understanding politics – Equality and diversity
runs through the degree like the lettering in a stick of
rock. The degree leans heavily on my considerable
expertise on masculinity and the influences of formal and
informal public service cultures on working arrangements.
To support
the Public Service Degree, I also established the UK’s
first social science based fire service research unit at
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. This unit has been
responsible for a number of research projects, including
the influential Sunrise
report on initial training. Additionally the unit submits
reports to government
committees on the fire service and is approved by the
CAA for auditing airport fire services.
My academic
portfolio is based around my research based teaching. In
the wider sense my academic specialities feature formal
and informal work cultures, masculinity and gender construction.
From a more focussed perspective I research and teach on
the effects and influences of formal and informal work cultures,
change management and leadership, the social construction
of masculinity and gender, and women's experience in the
fire and rescue service.
Working
with Fitting-in
I am the founding
director of Fitting-in, a consultancy that provides research
and training for the fire and rescue service. Using my international
expertise on fire service culture(s), the range of services
offered includes:
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snapshot
audits to report on new ideas and reconsider old difficulties;
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a specially
designed workshop programme that provides a range of
education packages to achieve three outcomes in one
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to set
strategy,
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to build
and develop teams
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to
develop academic skills
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a range
of other educational/training opportunities on equality
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research
opportunities.
Recently, with
Sarah O’Connor, I have been working in Merseyside
Fire and Rescue service, where we have been developing the
Ethos project, which seeks to reconcile cultural difficulties
and has identified that it is possible to avoid and overcome
the difficult cultural processes that turn new firefighters
into people who resist change and modernisation.
Fitting-in also
hosts the very successful http://www.fitting-in.com
website that freely publishes international research on
the fire and rescue service.
If you have
any research/writing that you would like to share with others
then send it to me.
International
I have
achieved an international profile. Recently I have spoken
at the following conferences
2007
2006
I took part
in the delivery of two international conferences:
• At the “Women as Leaders in the Fire and Rescue
Service” I chaired a series of workshops on the subject
of “Jobs for the boys” and reported back to
the plenary.
• At the “Leading Improvement through Leadership”
conference at the Fire Service College I sat on the round
table debate on equality
My international profile includes working for over six weeks
in Australia (2003) as a researcher/guest of the University
of Western Australia and New South Wales Fire Brigades (Sydney).
During this visit Dave presented a paper at the AFAC annual
conference on women and firefighting in Perth.
Assisting
researchers
I continually
assist international researchers with their work on the
fire service.
The assistance
I have given students, researchers and employers in the
UK, USA, Australia and Scandinavia indicates that the fire
service may have a ‘universal’ informal culture:
a culture that each generation of (masculine) firefighters
keeps in trust for the next generation. Amongst the values
this informal culture celebrates are some difficult areas
around white working class masculinity and some ultra conservative
attitudes about change. It is this difficult area of informal
cultural values and the modernisation project that my work
concentrates on.
Education
and Employment
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Education
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Anglia Ruskin
University, Cambridge
1997-2001 Doctor of Philosophy
Thesis provides a cultural audit of the UK fire service:
a qualitative sociological study of masculinity, equality
and gender, which also involved research in the police
and the military.
Available at http://fitting-in.com/baigent.pdf
1993-1996 BA (hons) Sociology and Politics
Dissertation provides an overview on female firefighters
and equal opportunities in the UK fire service.
Available at http://fitting-in.com/diss.htm
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Professional
Qualifications
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1970 Graduate
Member of the Institute of Fire Engineers
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EMPLOYMENT
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December 2001
to the current day
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Director: Fire
Service Research & Training Unit
Senior Lecturer Public Service Degree Anglia Ruskin University
External Examiner BA Hons and HND in Public Service Swansea
Institute
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2001
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Contract Researcher
Anglia Ruskin University
Module Leader for Feminist Theory Anglia Ruskin University
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1996 – 2001
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Lecturer in
Public and Emergency Services West Herts College.
Module Leader for Politics, Sociology and Equal Opportunities
at BTEC National and HND level Public Service qualifications.
Work Placement Supervisor.
Supervisor: Residential Trips and Visits.
Year Tutor: final year students.
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1962-1993
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London Fire
Brigade.
1962-1966 Firefighter.
1966-1970 L. Firefighter.
1970-1972 Sub Officer.
1972-1993 Station Officer.
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Political
Service
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Councillor
1986-90
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WRITING
AND PRESENTATIONS
Baigent, D. (1996)
Who Rings the Bell? A Gender Study Looking at the British
Fire
Service, its Firefighters and Equal Opportunities, Cambridge:
available at www.fitting-in.com/diss. |
Baigent, D. (1999) 'Fitting-in' Fire Service Research Conference,
Fire Service College Moreton in Marsh. |
| Baigent, D. (2000)
'Do officers gain from having a shared experience with firefighters'
Fire Service Research Conference, Fire Service College Moreton
in Marsh. |
Baigent, D.
(2001a) One More Last Working Class Hero: a cultural audit
of the UK fire service, Cambridge: Fitting-in. Available
at http://www.fitting-in.com/baigent.pdf.
Baigent, D. (2001b) 'Gender Relations, Masculinities and
the Fire Service: a qualitative study of firefighters' constructions
of masculinity during firefighting and in their social relations
of work' Department of Sociology and Politics: Anglia Ruskin
University.Cambridge
Baigent, D. (2001c) 'Against the Flow: Firefighters Working
Against Cultural Colonisation' Work Employment and Society
Conference, Nottingham.
Baigent, D. (2001d) 'Firefighting men can do it can women
do it too' Fire Service Research Conference, Fire Service
College Moreton in Marsh
Baigent, D. (2001e) 'Questioning the notion that officers
gain from their experience of having been firefighters',
Fire Command and Management November.
Baigent, D. (2001f) 'Firefighting: a masculinity in crisis'
Gender Theory Study Group, Cambridge.
Baigent, D. (2001g) 'Firefighting: a masculinity in crisis'
British Sociological Association Annual Conference, Manchester.
Baigent, D. (2001h) 'Experience Versus Degree', Fire 93(1150):
23-24.
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Baigent, D. (2002a)
'Fire Service Culture' Fire Service Conference, Fire Service
College Moreton in Marsh.
Baigent, D., with Rolph, C. (2002b) Fitting-in: a cultural
audit of recruitment, training and integration in the fire
service. Part one: The first 14 weeks, Cambridge: Fitting-in
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Baigent, D. (2003a)
'Memorandum by The Fire Service Research and Training Unit,
Cambridge (FIR 12) to the
Select Committee on Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: Housing,
Planning, Local Government and the Regions, available at http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200203/cmselect/cmodpm/1168/1168we16.htm'.
Baigent, D. with Hill, R., Ling, T., Skinner, D., Rolph, C
and Watson, A. (2003b) 'Sunrise: a new dawn in training' Fire
Service Research Conference, Fire Service College Moreton
in Marsh.
Baigent, D., with Hill, R., Ling, T., Skinner, D., Rolph,
C and Watson, A. (2003c) Sunrise a New Dawn in Training: training
today's firefighters as the emergency workers for tomorrow,
Cambridge: Anglia Ruskin University. available at www.fitting-in.com/sunrise.pdf. |
Baigent, D. (2004a)
'Fitting-in: the conflation of firefighting, male domination,
and harassment', in J. G. a. P. Morgan (ed) In the Company
of Men: re-discovering the links between sexual harassment
and male domination., Boston: North Eastern University Press.
Baigent, D. (2004b) 'Firefighting men can do it can women
do it too' Australian Fire Authorities Annual Conference,
Perth.
Baigent, D. (2004c) 'The secret fire-fighter: revelations
of inequality in the fire service,' Local Government Association
Annual Conference (Fire), Manchester, UK. |
Baigent, D. (2005a)
'New Managerialism, Masculine Managers and a Masculine Business,'
Gender Work and Organisation, Keele.
Baigent, D. (2005b) 'New managerialism, masculine managers
and a masculine business (how gender may be key in attempts
to manage the UK fire service), paper presented at the Gender
Work and Organisation Conference, Keele June.' |
Baigent, D.
(2006a) 'One Decade On: summary of data collected, available
at http://www.fitting-in.com/decade/summary.doc'.http://www.fitting-in.com/decade/summary.doc
16-5-06
Baigent, D. (2006b) 'One Decade On: ethics statement, available
at http://www.fitting-in./decadecom/e.htm'.http://www.fitting-in./decadecom/e.htm
Baigent, D. (2006c) 'Memorandum by the Fire Service Research
and Training Unit tothe Select Committee on Office of the
Deputy Prime Minister, available at http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmselect/cmodpm/872/872we47.htm'.
Baigent, D. (2006d) 'One Decade On: early summary of data
on shift systems available at http://www.fitting-in.com/decade/shifts.pdf'
accessed 16-8-06
Baigent, D. (2006e) 'Shift Changes: what women really want',
Fire August(2006).
Baigent, D. (2006f) 'Public Servants and free choice: an
early debate about the influences of structure and agency.'http://www.fitting-in.com/structureagency
25-9-06
Baigent, D., Dolan, K., Marks, T. and O'Connor, S. (2006g)
Three students and their Fd Leader write about their experience
of a Foundation Degree in Public Service at Anglia Ruskin
University: Foundation Degree Forward. available at http://www.fdf.ac.uk/uploads/fdfcasestudy.pdf
Baigent, D. (2006). 'Shift
Changes: what women really want', Fire August(2006). |
| Baigent, D.
(2007a). "An early debate on how social norms and values
provide the rules that form the structures for Public Servants
(work in progress last update on 2-8-07) http://www.fitting-in.com/z/a/2structureagency.doc
accessed on ****."
Baigent, D. (2007b). "Public Servants and free choice:
an early debate about the influences of structure and agency."
Retrieved 25-9-06, from http://www.fitting-in.com/structureagency.
Baigent, D. (2007c). "Public Service Workers and Maslow's
Hierarchy of Needs (work in progress), downloaded from http://web.anglia.ac.uk/publicservice/studentsnotes/1modules/job%20one/3%20week%20three%20handout%20maslow%20adapted%20from%20boeree.doc
on *****."
Baigent, D. (2007d). "Quotes." from downloaded
from www.fitting-in.com/z/a/quotes on 9-10-07.
Baigent, D. (2007e). Speech to Melbourne Diversity in Emergency
Services Conference, 31-11-07
Baigent, D. (2007f). Stopping the Drip. Gender Work and
Organisation. Keele.
Baigent, D. and O'Connor, S. (2007a). Ethos 1 - embargoed.
Baigent, D. and O'Connor, S. (2007b). Ethos 2 - embargoed
report. |
Baigent, D.
and O'Connor, S. (2008a). Submission
to the C&LG Equality and Diversity Strategy Cambridge,
Fitting-in.
Baigent, D. and O'Connor, S. (2008b). Submission to the
D&CLG Framework Strategy. Cambridge, Fitting-in.
Baigent, D., O'Connor, S., et al. (2008). Ethos 3 - in draft.
Baigent, D. (forthcoming).
"Book review: On the Fireline: Living and Dying with
Wildland Firefighters." Journal of Risk Research.
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| Sarah O'Connor
Curriculum Vitae |
Educational
Background - Present
Sarah completed a
Foundation degree in Public Service in 2003 and became the highest
scoring student on the BA (Hons) degree in Public Service when
she graduated in 2004.
Since graduating
Sarah has pursed her passion for teaching by attaining her Post
Graduate Certificate in Education. Sarah has taught students
at various levels over the past two years on the Public Service
Degree at Anglia Ruskin including:
– Work-based
Learning Two
– Learning and Skills Development for HE and Work
– Social Science and Society
– Contemporary Work and Organisational Life
PhD
Sarah plan is to submit a proposal to undertake a PhD programme
in September.
International
In 2007 Sarah co-delivered a paper with Dr. D. Baigent in relation
to equal opportunities in the fire service
• Diversity
in Organisations, Communities and Nations,’ Amsterdam.
Skills Audit
The BA (Hons) Degree provided Sarah with the skills to:
• pursue her
enthusiasm for researching into the changing and resilient culture
of the fire service
• explore ways
of developing the change needed in line with government objectives
in relation to the 're-invention' of the fire service.
• to evaluate
the cost of change to all individuals in the fire service
• to help re-build
the framework of individual and watch identities.
• Sarah applies
her knowledge of sociological theory to ‘real events’
and her real skill may be demonstrated in the use of ‘abstract
conceptualisation’.
Research experience has led Sarah to develop a wide understanding
of the multi-faceted tensions in the developing fire and rescue
service. Sarah's real passion is in trying to create the space
for individuals to develop and re-align a sense of self- identity
within the complex cultural arrangements that exist, whilst
not loosing sight that public service is under constant pressure
from government to modernise.
Sarah has worked
alongside Dr Baigent to promote a reconciliation of competing
cultures within an environment of pressurised change.
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of a series of Ethos
Reports- the research based report that suggests new ways
of answering the question that most Chief Fire Officers ask
- “Why is it that the values and attitudes held by firefighters
when they join the fire service, almost seem predisposed to change
from the day they commence training?” Contact Dave
Baigent about these exciting reports, which have been completed
for the ******* Fire and Rescue Service and hopefully will be made
public released soon |
| O'Connor,
S. (2004) The Individual In The Fire Service: A study of the
changing context of the white male heterosexual firefighter in the
fire service, exploring gender, culture new forms of institutional
control and effects on self-identity, Dissertation for BA Honours
in Public Service Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. |
Baigent, D., Dolan,
K., Marks, T. and O'Connor, S. (2006g) Three
students and their Fd Leader write about their experience of a
Foundation Degree in Public Service at Anglia Ruskin University:
Foundation Degree Forward. available at http://www.fdf.ac.uk/uploads/fdfcasestudy.pdf
Baigent, D. and O'Connor,
S. (2008a). Submission
to the C&LG Equality and Diversity Strategy Cambridge,
Fitting-in.
Baigent, D. and O'Connor, S. (2008b). Submission to the D&CLG
Framework Strategy. Cambridge, Fitting-in.
Baigent, D. (2008a) 'Culture, the formal and the informal'. DOI:
Baigent, D. (2008b) 'One Decade on: data on the harassment of
women in the UK Fire and Rescue Service (work in progress) http://www.fitting-in.com/decade/harassment.doc'.
DOI:
Baigent, D. (forthcoming). 'The need to have accepted core values'.
Baigent, D., O'Connor, S., et al. (2008). Ethos 3 - in draft. |
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