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.
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Do you have a conflict that is difficult to resolve ?
a problem within one watch
industrial relations difficulties
managers who often argue
We have a package that might suit. If we don't talk to us and we will design one for you.
We hold a two day educational seminar involving everyone invovled. Our experience indicates this can work.
In one FRS there was a need to get a whole station and management working on a new project. So hostile was the environment that managers and firefighters hardly spoke. We put them together in an educational environment and after a very hositle start they started to talk - by the end of the second day we had produced a plan for the implementation of the project that they all signed up to. The group included an SDO; Station, Watch and Crew Managers; Firefighters and the FBU Area Secretary and Chair. The results in terms of the project plan were unbelievable.
If you want to hear more contact us.
"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
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