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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, to look at what others have written about the fire service and to see our commercial offerings.

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.
Home Main Index Contact us Draft papers for reading Recent index of contrbutions Older index of contributions Reports Consultancy Snapshot Audits Workshops on fire service culture Problem solving by fitting-in Elite briefing/workshops Impact Assessments Equality Action Plans CV & References Have you seen Ethos? One Decade On - Survey on women firefighters New CFOA President Minister's speech Audit Commission on equality Melbourne DiversityConference How do I send my writing to fitting-in for publication What does fitting-in publish How do I do research - some basic tips Writing a bibliography Home Testimonials/References Reports from Government Diversity Strategy Public Service Degree online or face to face Contact us	These are the latest contributions - a list of all the contributions can be found at contributors if you have something you wold like to publish then email us now Baigent and O'Connor. (2008). Submission to the C&LG Equality and Diversity Strategy Cambridge: Fitting-in. Baigent (2008) One Decade on: early release of data on harassment of women in the UK Fire and Rescue Service. Matt Desmond's latest book On the FireLine - read the first chapter free. Baigent, D. One more last working class hero: a cultural audit of the UK Fire Service, Thesis for Phd Anglia Ruskin University (adapted) with footnotes or altenatively with endnotes O'Connor, S. 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. Jon Fisher. Developing Strategic Capability: The County Fire and Rescue Service is in need of a training strategy, would the model adopted by the County Police give the service a strategy fit for the modernised Fire Service , Dissertation for an MBA Brighton University. Neighbour, K. Women in the military, Dissertation for BA Honours in Public Service Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, Bryant, R. Climbing the Fire Service Ladder of Success – A Matter of Perceptions, Dissertation for MBA University of Central Lancashire. Rolph, C Design or Default: An analysis of the role Strategic Human Resource Management plays in modernising the Fire & Rescue Service.Management plays in modernising the Fire & Rescue Service, Dissertation for MA Kingston Business School Kingston University. Wright, T A comparison of the experiences of lesbians and heterosexual women in a non-traditionally female occupation, the fire service: Couch, S. The Relevance of Traditional Leadership Paradigms for the Essex Fire and Rescue Service in the 21st Century - Dissertation for Phd Anglia Ruskin University. Parmah, D. Watch Culture Group Think: a study of the implementation of the EU Equal Treatment Directive in the UK Fire and Rescue Service Lewis. S. Gender and Firefighter Selection and Recruitment, Melbourne Fire and Rescue Service and Swinburne University Lewis. S. Gender and Firefighter Training, Melbourne Fire and Rescue Service and Swinburne University Lewis. S. Gender and Firefighting, Melbourne Fire and Rescue Service and Swinburne University Johnson, A, Positive action negative effect: study into the negative effects of positive action on minority groups in The British Fire Service McGuirk, S. Are we serious: a strategic approach to long term equality and diversity in the UK Fire Service. A discussion document. Caplen, K Women Firefighters: Comparing and contrasting recent employment experiences in the U.K. and the U.S.A Baigent et al Sunrise: a national report on initial training Ericson, M Equality in the Swedish Fire Service Cunningham, D How (in) effective smoke detectors may be at waking sleeping children Wood, A Sociological Exploration of the Occupational Culture of the Fire Service and Women’s Place Within It" Singh, J. Making a Difference: a study of under-representation in UK and USA Fire Services These are the latest contributions - a list of all the contributions can be found at contributors if you have something you wold like to publish then email us now
	"The Service are delighted with the research and reports produced by "Fitting-in. We believe that your original hyphothesis 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." This is what Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service had to say about the Ethos research, communications and training project (2007) For further information or just to talk about what fitting-in can provide ring Dr Dave Baigent (GradIFireE) 07802 495 329, email or write to 17 Headley Gardens, Cambridge, CB22 5JZ Academic theory without practise is a waste - research without theory may just be dumb Bringing research in the fire service straight to you Site under reconstruction 4-3-08 please notify me of any errors Contact us z

"The Service are delighted with the research and reports produced by "Fitting-in. We believe that your original hyphothesis 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."

This is what Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service had to say about the Ethos research, communications and training project (2007)