Name: Inside the Fire and Rescue Service
Start: 2026-03-05T12:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-03-05T13:00:00+00:00
Location: Oastler Building, Floor 7, Room 26, The University of Huddersfield

Join us for a live podcast exploring culture, leadership and wellbeing in safety-critical services
About this Event

Join us this March for a special live podcast from the University of Huddersfield’s Healthy Housing Initiative (HHI), hosted by Research Fellow, Dr Tom Simcock. This thought-provoking event will welcome the North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service (NYFRS) Chief Fire Officer and members of the NYFRS team, who will bring their expertise and share valuable insights.

Healthy housing isn’t just about buildings - it’s also shaped by the organisations and people who prevent harm, respond to emergencies and support residents. Fire and Rescue Services sit at the heart of this system, working where housing and health risks meet.

In this live episode, we’ll explore station culture, leadership, and staff wellbeing - the banter, the bonds and the behaviours that shape life in the service. We’ll share information from recent scrutiny, discuss findings from our latest research with NYFRS and look at what positive culture looks like in practice.

Event Highlights:

Live Podcast Recording with Tom Simcock and NYFRS - be part of the conversation as it happens
Insights into organisational culture and wellbeing - in a safety-critical public service
Links to healthy homes and community safety – why workforce culture affects prevention and resident engagement
Interactive Q&A Session - your chance to ask questions and share perspectives
Refreshments Provided - because good conversation deserves good coffee

Join us to explore how strengthening culture and wellbeing in safety critical services drives safer, healthier homes and real cross sector change.

To view all Research in Conversation 25/26 events, please use the following link – https://www.hud.ac.uk/events/events/research-in-conversation
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Our Research in Conversation events are free and open to members of the public, students and staff, and a great opportunity to share our fantastic research and its relevance in the everyday world, featuring talks around various topics of interest, and hearing directly from our very own university experts and from those around the world.