Jamie Rundle

Role

Jamie Rundle is a Senior Lecturer in Management at Nottingham Business School. His teaching specialises in Operations and Supply Chain Management and he is a Module Leader for Global Supply Chain Strategy (Level 6) and Problem Analysis and Business Improvement (CMDA). He currently also teaches on the Nottingham Leadership Transformation Programme (NLTP Executive Education) and the Project Management MSc programme route at NBS. He teaches internationally as a Visiting Professor in Logistics in Norway.

Jamie is interested in supervising postgraduate dissertations and conducting external consultancy projects.

Career overview

Prior to his academic career, Jamie spent over 17 years in operations management roles in manufacturing and maintenance.

Since 2009, Jamie has held academic positions at management schools of The University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and The University of Salford, and joined Nottingham Business School in 2021. His academic responsibilities have previously included a range of course and programme leadership posts including Course Director, Executive MBA (2012-2016), International MBA, and MSc Logistics Course Director (2016-2018), and Programme Director, Senior Leader Apprenticeship (2020-2021).

His current teaching includes operations and supply chain management at all levels of study, as well as Project Management and Risk and Crisis management for final year and MSc students and Executive Education. Jamie has taught extensively for international universities at MBA and MSc programme level in Sri Lanka and Hong Kong, and on Erasmus+ programmes in Finland, Norway, and France. He has delivered his work at conferences and seminars including the Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) at Sheffield Business School, AACSB MBA conference in Tampa, Florida, and the Norwegian Defence College in Oslo.

Jamie adopted the case study teaching method and discussion-based teaching as the principal pedagogical approach which he practices extensively with his students. He goes by Christensen et al's mantra that "Teaching is messy, indeterminate, inscrutable, often intimidating, and a highly uncertain task" (1991, p. ix) and believes that case studies are a highly-reliable means of stoking that messiness and uncertainty, adding a layer of ambiguity to theory in order to encourage analytical thinking and decision-making to take place in conditions of ambiguity. He holds a trustee position at The Case Centre at Cranfield University.

External activity

Jamie remains active in the case study community and since 2012 has served as a trustee and non-executive director at The Case Centre, Cranfield University. He has judged and reviewed a number of international competitons and scholarship applications and recently judged the Supply Chain category of the 2021 EFMD Global case awards.

Since 2017, Jamie has held a Visiting Professorship in the Faculty of Logistics at Høgskolen i Molde, Norway, where he developed and teaches the elective postgraduate course Disaster Relief Logistics (LOG-951). He also recently held a post as a Visiting Fellow at Alliance Manchester Business School at The University of Manchester.

Jamie is currently an External Examiner for the Supply Chain programme at The University of Plymouth and has previously been an External Examiner at The University of Hertfordshire (2016-2019), and a reviewer for the Project Management online programme at Boston University (2016).

He has reviewed various operations management texts and chapters including texts for Pearson Education by Slack et al., (2015, 2017) and Krajewski et al., (2013), and for Oxford University Press by Jones and Robinson (2015).

Jamie has conducted various consultancy projects for local organisations including, process design and improvement with the NHS in South Yorkshire, process crisis planning with a pharmaceutical logistics provider in the East Midlands, and supply chain mapping with a disaster relief organisation in Europe.