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,
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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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Cultural Audits
Dave Baigent's thesis 'One more last working class hero' was the first substantive cultural audit of the fire service.
This thesis was quickly followed by a commission to culturally audit training centres.
Following this came 'Sunrise' a national audit of training centres and this provided an in-depth examination of current training and provided some powerful arguments for a new approach to help provide the type of firefighter that the fire and rescue service argues it needs.
Since then Dave has carried out other work but much of this remains confidential.
Snapshot Audits are a new way of finding answers, testing ideas or revisiting an old difficulty
Dave has written extensively on fire service culture and presented at a range of national and international conferences.
Who better to talk to than Dave or Sarah if you think a cultural audit will help you - ring now on 07802 495 329 or email
We 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."
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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