BIO
Jamie Smith
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Jamie B Smith is a white, cis, queer newly middle class man.
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​Jamie B Smith is a nurse, lecturer, and senior research associate working clinically in the NHS in the UK while also continuing his research at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin. He moves between practice and academia, bridging Berlin, Edinburgh, and now the UK healthcare landscape. Jamie’s work promotes diversity, inclusion, and social justice, always embedded deeply in practice.
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His PhD at the University of Edinburgh examined nursing, institutional power, and critical posthuman theory. Jamie originally studied psychology as an undergraduate before training as a nurse and earning Master’s degrees in both Nursing and Sociology. He employs a mixed methods approach, combining quantitative, qualitative, and post-qualitative methods, and takes a critical posthuman perspective to address complex issues in healthcare research and practice.
projects
Past, present and future projects
Posthuman Convergences: Transdisciplinary Methods and Practices
A collaborative project that investigates how posthuman theory can be applied across disciplines, creating new research methods and practical applications within healthcare. Includes a forthcoming book edited by Rosi Braidotti, Goda Klumbyte, and Emily Jones, in which I have contributed a chapter on methods.
Organised and managed the process of creating and manufacturing a nursing tartan to raise money for nursing charities. All profits from this initiative go towards funding nursing scholarships, split equally between nurses in the UK and nurses in the global south. With a turnover of over £100,000, the project has already funded scholarships for nurses to pursue further education.
Advance Academia
Focused on addressing discrimination and promoting equity in academic settings, this project looks at the lived experiences of academics through qualitative research, advocating for systemic change
Developing a standardised set of metrics to effectively assess and promote diversity within healthcare and academic environments, contributing to actionable and inclusive policy-making.
An ERASMUS+ funded initiative aimed at transforming nurse educator education across Europe, focusing on enhancing competencies to meet contemporary healthcare challenges.
PflegeStressPlan
This project looks to improve the work lives and wellbeing of nurses. It is a mixed methods project looking at stressors in nursing in German
Education
2018-2022
University of Edinburgh
PhD Nursing Studies
Towards a Posthuman Institutional Ethnography of Nursing
2013-2014
Goldsmiths College,
University of London
Master of Arts
Sociology (Gender, Media and Culture)
2007-2010
University Name
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2013-2014
Sheffield Hallam University
Master of Science
Nursing