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Jamie Rundle

Senior Lecturer

Nottingham Business School

Staff Group(s)
Department of Strategy, Analytics and Operations

Role

Jamie specialises in Operations and Supply Chain Management. He leads the final year Global Supply Chain module, MSc Ethics and Governance of AI Systems module, and the Problem Analysis and Business Improvement module on the Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship (CMDA) programme. He serves as a Visiting Professor in Norway, where he leads an MSc module on Disaster Relief Operations.

Career overview

Jamie joined Nottingham Business School in 2021 after holding academic posts at the University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and the University of Salford. He has a career background in book printing and manufacturing, completing an apprenticeship and ending that part of his career as an operations manager. He says it was a tough and steep learning curve but one that taught him the value of accurate information, understanding the systems and processes, and checking details. It probably helped that he produced academic and scientific textbooks before eventually teaching from them!

He has since built a reputation in HE as an inspirational teacher leading programmes including the Executive MBA and International MBA and MSc Logistics at Sheffield Business School, and the Senior Leader Apprenticeship at Salford University. Today, as a Senior Lecturer in Management, he teaches operations, supply chain, project management, and ethics on NBS's undergraduate, MSc and Executive Education programmes. His teaching extends internationally, having delivered MBA and MSc courses in Sri Lanka and Hong Kong and participated in Erasmus+ programmes in Finland, Norway, and France.

Jamie champions case‑study and discussion‑based teaching, believing that the inherent “messiness” of learning - captured by Christensen et al.’s mantra that teaching is “messy, indeterminate, inscrutable, often intimidating” - is a powerful catalyst for analytical thinking under uncertainty. As a trustee of The Case Centre, he works to embed this philosophy across curricula.

Beyond the classroom, Jamie supervises postgraduate dissertations and engages with external consultancy projects focused on operations and supply chain, applying his expertise to real‑world scenarios and challenges.

External activity

Jamie remains active in the case study community and since 2012 has served as a trustee (non-executive director) at The Case Centre, UK. He has judged and reviewed a number of international competitons and scholarships, including the Supply Chain category of the 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 Operations, supported by MSF. He held a post as a Visiting Fellow (Executive Education) at Alliance Manchester Business School at The University of Manchester where he taught Project Management. He is currently an external examiner for the supply chain programme at The University of Plymouth.

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.

He has reviewed various operations management-based texts and chapters for Pearson Education, Bloomsbury, IGI-Global, and Oxford University Press.

Publications

Kolade, S., Anderson, A., Rundle, J., and Awolowo, F. (forthcoming 2026) Responsible Enterprise and Leadership. London: Palgrave Macmillan

Allison, S., Wallace, S., and Rundle, J. (forthcoming 2026) Sherwood Observatory: Retaining the Founders’ Vision During Growth, in: Kolade et al (forthcoming 2026) Responsible Enterprise and Leadership. London: Palgrave Macmillan

Rundle, J., (2022) Médecins Sans Frontières and the 2014 Ebola Disaster in West Africa (A): In Uncharted Waters, Nottingham Trent University (Case Study). The Case Centre (Reference 319-0355-1)

Rundle, J., (2022) Médecins Sans Frontières and the 2014 Ebola Disaster in West Africa (A): In Uncharted Waters, Nottingham Trent University (Teaching Note). The Case Centre (Reference 319-0355-8)

Rundle, J. and Vannier, W., (2022) Médecins Sans Frontières and the 2014 Ebola Disaster in West Africa (B): The MSF Supply Chain, Nottingham Trent University (Case Study). The Case Centre (Reference 319-0355-1B)

Rundle, J., (2022) Médecins Sans Frontières and the 2014 Ebola Disaster in West Africa (B): The MSF Supply Chain, Nottingham Trent University (Teaching Note). The Case Centre (Reference 319-0355-8B)

Grainger, A., Rundle, J. M., and Ahsen, S. R., (2019) Customs and Humanitarian Logistics. Global Trade and Customs Journal, 14(4), pp. 154-168

Rundle, J., (2017) ShelterBox: Rapid Response in Disaster Relief in: Schroeder et al (2017) Operations Management in the Supply Chain: Decisions and Cases. New York: McGraw-Hill

Rundle, J., (2014) US Airways Flight 1549: ‘The Miracle on the Hudson’. Sheffield Business School (Case Study). The Case Centre (Reference 914-022-1)

Rundle, J, (2014) US Airways Flight 1549: ‘The Miracle on the Hudson’. Sheffield Business School (Teaching Note). The Case Centre (Reference 914-022-8)

Rundle, J., (2013) ShelterBox: A Decade of Disaster Relief. Sheffield Hallam University (Case Study). European Case Clearing House (Reference 613-021-1) (revised 2021)

Rundle, J., (2013) ShelterBox: A Decade of Disaster Relief. Sheffield Hallam University (Teaching Note). European Case Clearing House (Reference 613-021-8)

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