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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	Workshop Four: Understanding the culture Whenever something goes wrong in the fire and rescue service people are quick to blame "the culture". Often that assumption is right. But what do you know about "fire service culture?" You cannot touch, see or visualise it. "Fire service culture " is a phenomenom that managers need to understand if they are ever going to change it. For the FRS to move on it needs a better understanding of how formal and informal cultures work. More importantly for change and efficiency to really be embedded then the informal culture needs to be wedded to the formal culture not act as a pocket of resistance. Fore example have you ever wished that you could stop the way that newcomers seem to fit-in with existing customs and practices and forget much of what they offered when they were interviewed for their job? Are you aware of the complexities at work when women join - how the informal culture operates against their presence? This workshop is for everyone in the fire and rescue service who needs a briefing on fire service cultures. More importantly the workshop can be designed specifically for you to find outcomes on how to first understand fire service culture and then to work with it. The whole workshop is research lead and sets out to improve understanding of how informal and formal cultures operate alongside each other - sometimes paralleling beliefs and at other times operating in antagonistic relations. Particularly suitable for Authority Members and all staff who wish to improve their knowledge of how "fire service culture" works - ideal for those preparing for their ADC's
	"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