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Jamie B. Smith is a nursing clinical academic researcher working across workforce wellbeing, critical care, and the philosophy of nursing. He holds a Senior Research Fellow position at Edinburgh Napier University, where he leads the process evaluation of the SHORTER trial — a multi-site study examining antibiotic treatment duration in intensive care units. He is also a Research Associate at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin's Institute of Gender in Medicine, where his research focuses on nursing workforce wellbeing with particular attention to stress, burnout, and retention in critical care settings.
 

Before moving into academia, Jamie worked as a Specialist Nurse in Organ Donation for NHS Blood and Transplant, covering Yorkshire and Scotland, and as a senior staff nurse in nephrology, renal medicine, and transplantation in London. This clinical grounding in high-acuity environments informs his research on how structural and institutional conditions shape nurses' experiences of work.
 

His methodological expertise spans mixed methods research, psychometric validation, qualitative inquiry, and process evaluation. Theoretically, he draws on feminist posthumanism, new materialism, and critical theory to examine how healthcare systems produce particular conditions for both patients and professionals. He has published in journals including the Journal of Advanced Nursing, Nursing Inquiry, Nursing Philosophy, BMJ Open, and Policy, Politics & Nursing Practice, and has contributed chapters to volumes edited by Rosi Braidotti (Bloomsbury Academic) and others (Routledge).
 

Jamie is a member of the Wellcome Trust Early Career Researcher Committee (2024–2027) and serves as Guest Editor for special issues of Nursing Inquiry and Nursing Philosophy. He received the Carl Duisberg Fellowship from the Bayer Foundation and was a driving force behind the Nursing Tartan — a project developed with Nursing Now that was featured in the House of Lords and covered by Nursing Times.
 

He holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, an MA in Sociology (Gender, Media and Culture) from Goldsmiths, University of London, an MSc in Nursing Studies from Sheffield Hallam University, and remains a registered nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council and in the District of Columbia, USA.