Pam Smith MBE FRCN is a Professor of Nursing in the School of Health in Social Science at the University of Edinburgh.
On completion of her doctoral studies at King's College London, she was awarded a Florence Nightingale Travel Scholarship and Fulbright Fellowship to study US nursing and healthcare and spent a year as a post-doctoral research with Professor Arlie Russell Hochschild at the University of California Berkeley, developing the application of emotional labour to nursing.
[3][4] She continues this area of research exploring how nurses manage emotions in intensive care settings,[5] how older peoples' voices can be heard[6] and investigating the transitions experienced by professionals and parents caring for children with cancer.
[7] She went on to hold research leadership roles at Bloomsbury (later Camden and Islington) Health Authority from 1985 to 1992 and then at London South Bank University from 1997 to 2001.
Smith's more recent research has examined new forms of development and brokerage in maternal and child health service delivery in Nepal and Malawi,[8] developed a UK taxonomy and framework for facilitating health policy deliberations on maximising secondary uses of healthcare data[9][10][11] and explored how delivering maternal and child healthcare can be improved through educating clinical professionals in Malawi.