Layla Branicki

• Research Fellow

BSc (Portsmouth), MA (UCL), PhD (Warwick Business School)

Dr Layla Branicki is a research fellow working in the area of organizational resilience at Warwick Business School and is a co-investigator on the EPSRC funded project Game Theory and Adaptive Networks for Smart City Evacuation. Layla has also worked on a wide range of empirical research projects which have looked across the public, private and voluntary sectors on subjects including joined-up justice, organizational politics and security. Her work combines strategic decision making and implementation, management, organizational theory and public policy. Most recently Layla worked on the first major UK project to examine the existing capacity of organizations, and networks of organizations, to manage emergencies. This project received funding from The Civil Contingencies Secretariat (UK Cabinet Office) and engaged with 135 critical national infrastructure linked organizations, ranging from multinational companies to local government and blue light services. Layla has organised, participated in and presented at a wide range of academic and practitioner events on the subject of resilience in the UK and Europe and was selected on the basis of research expertise to attend the week long Research Council UK Next Generation Resilience Sandpit. Layla's current research interests include strategic decision making under conditions of extreme uncertainty, organizational resilience and the policy and practice implications of social networking technologies. She is a member of the European Group for Organizational Studies and the Strategic Management Society and teaches and supervises students on a range of WBS courses.

Criminal justice; inter-organizational relationships; legal and political theory (including ethics); organisational and inter-organizational resilience; policy and practice implications of social networking technologies; security; strategy