|
CV's
follow for Dave Baigent and Sarah O'Connor
|
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.”
Fitting-in
I am the founding
director of Fitting-in, a teaching and training consultancy
that basis all its work on research. Using my academic experience
at Angila Ruskin Cambridge and international expertise on
fire service culture(s), the range of services offered includes:
-
specialist education packages designed specifically
for you
-
snapshot
audits to report on new ideas and reconsider old difficulties;
-
customised
workshop programmes that provides a range of packages
to achieve three outcomes in one
-
to set
strategy,
-
to build
and develop teams
-
to
develop academic skills
-
a range
of other educational and training opportunities
-
research
opportunities.
Sarah O’Connor
and I 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."
We have an extensive
portfolio with Merseyside Fire and Resuce, where we developed
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.
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."
Fitting-in also
hosts the very successful http://www.fitting-in.com
website that freely publishes international research on
the fire and rescue service.
I also offer
assistance to a number of national and international students
studying for a range of awards
Academic
I am a principal
lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge where I wrote
and teach on the UK’s first Public
Service Degrees. The FdA and BA Honours in Public Service
are designed to help potential new
entrants and existing members of the emergency services
with the critical skills necessary to run tomorrow’s
uniformed services.
The degree takes
a critical view of all the emergency services. In particular
it focuses on understanding service and cultural reaction
to modernisation, community participation, service delivery,
leadership, change management, modernisation, trade union
relations, politics equality and diversity.
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, equality, and women's experience in the fire and rescue
service.
International
Sarah
and I 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."
Recently
I have spoken at the following conferences
2008
-
Invited speaker at the Essex Equality Week
-
Inspire Learning and Teaching Fellow: ReadRight: seeking
ways to encourage non traditional students to participate
fully in education.
2007
2006
I took part
in the delivery of two international conferences:
• At the Avon “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
During 2004
I was a research fellow working in Australia as a researcher/guest
of the University of Western Australia and New South Wales
Fire Brigades (Sydney). During this visit I presented a
paper at the AFAC annual conference 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
|
|
Education
|
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
|
Professional
Qualifications
|
1970 Graduate
Member of the Institute of Fire Engineers
|
EMPLOYMENT
|
|
December 2001
to the current day
|
Director: Fire
Service Research & Training Unit
Principal Lecturer Public Service Degree Anglia Ruskin
University
External Examiner BA Hons and HND in Public Service Swansea
Institute
|
2001
|
Contract Researcher
Anglia Ruskin University
Module Leader for Feminist Theory Anglia Ruskin University
|
1996 – 2001
|
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.
|
1962-1993
|
London Fire
Brigade.
1962-1966 Firefighter.
1966-1970 L. Firefighter.
1970-1972 Sub Officer.
1972-1993 Station Officer.
|
Political
Service
|
Councillor
1986-90
|
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.
|
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
|
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. O'Connor, S. and Evans, B. (2007a). Ethos 1
Baigent, D. and O'Connor, S. and Evans, B. (2007b). Ethos
2 |
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.
Baigent, D and
O'Connor, S (2009) ReadRight: report of an Inspire Research
Fellowship into improving access to education for non-traditional
students |
|
| Sarah O'Connor
Curriculum Vitae |
Educational
Background - Present
PhD
Sarah is undertaking PhD on public service culture.
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 One and Two
– Learning and Skills Development for HE and Work
– Social Science and Society
– Contemporary Work and Organisational Life
International
Sarah has co-delivered a range of papers with Dave 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.
|
| Sarah is joint author
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. |
| |
|
