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.
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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Does your service suppor your staff in taking educational programmes?Are any of your staff taking degrees, MA,s or MBA's?
Fitting-in has a wide experience of delivering education at university level and to firefighters; we can bring this experience into your service or region.
Have you though about supporting your staff in this innovative way?
Bringing support workshops on your chosen subject direct to your people.
Investing in your future.
Talk to us now - Ring 07802 495 329 or email
Have you paid for an attitude survey and wondered what you paid for?
Fitting-in can provide a cultural audit that not only feeds back on attitudes in your service it also provides an outside view on how your organisation is thinking at all levels that is supported by recommendations for focussing change.
Just completed the Fire and Rescue Services: Going the extra mile report for the LGA on how fire and rescue services are delivering the minister's seven challenges.
Mark Smitherman has this to say about the cultural audit we did with him
"South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue was very pleased with the outcome of our involvement with Fitting-in; as it says on their tin, "managers in the emergency services are the experts - What fitting-in can do is help managers to use their expertise" and Dave and Sarah worked very well with us to challenge imbedded perceptions and cultural history within the service during a very intense period of change within South Yorkshire. The result is a far more rounded and pragmatic collective understanding of where we want to be as an organisation – a challenging process, but very worthwhile."
We are just completing a cultural audit on the retained service – would a cultural audit help in your future planning?
The Swedish Fire Service 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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