Biography

Ila Bharatan is an assistant professor in the Organisation and Work Group at WBS and co-director of the Centre for Organising Health and Care Research [COHCR] at WBS. She atained her PhD from Warwick Business School and then won an ESRC post doctoral fellowship to develop her PhD work further. She then worked as a research fellow on the Applied Research Collaboration (ARC West Midlands). Ila has held a position at the University of Liverpool Management School before assuming her role at the University of Warwick. 

Research Interests

Ila's research examines learning and knowing in high-risk and reliability settings through a practice-based lens, alongside innovation implementation in health and social care sectors. She is particularly interested in uncovering how learning, knowing and change accomplished through everyday practices. This focus drives her methodological approach, where she primarily employs qualitative methods—especially ethnography—to explore these questions in depth.