Anusheela Brahmachary

About

Overview

Anusheela Brahmachary is a PhD Candidate in Management (Organisational Behaviour) at Bayes Business School. Her research interests are rooted in the exploration of relational dymanics amongst different professional groups in healthcare and other cross-functional occupations.

Grounded in qualitative methodology, her PhD research is an ethnographic exploration of the inter-professional collaboration amongst the different groups of healthcare workers in the maternity units. She is doing this study from the lens of the midwives. Through this study she aims to unfirl the mechanism of collaboration reproduced in daily micro-interactions and how the insectional identities of the midwives inform collaboration. 

Along with her PhD project, Anusheela is working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Human Resource Management (Level 6) and Critical Analysis for Business (Level 5) module in the UG program since 2024. She is also involved in the organising committees of seminars and conferences at the university.

She has a background in Counselling and Sport Psychology. She worked as a consultant psychologist in a hospital in India for 10 years before joining the PhD program at Bayes. 

Qualifications

• MS, Lund University, Sweden, September 2011 - July 2013
• MS, Leipzig University, Germany, March - July 2012
• MA, University of Calcutta, India, August 2006 - July 2008

Employment

• Graduate Teaching Assistant, City, University of London, United Kingdom, May 2024 - present
• PhD Student, City, University of London, United Kingdom, September 2023 - December 2027
• Sport Psychologist & Counsellor, Medica Superspecialty Hospital, India, April 2014 - July 2023

Memberships of professional organisations

• Student Memeber, Socitiey for Studies in Organizing Healthcare(SHOC), April 2026 - present

Languages

Bengali (can read, write, speak, understand spoken, peer review), English (can read, write, speak, understand spoken, peer review) and Hindi (can read, write, speak, understand spoken)

Expertise

Primary topics

• Organizational Behaviour
• Qualitative Research Methods

Industries

• health care
• Psychologist
• mental wellbeing

Research

Title of thesis: Interprofessional Collaboration in Diverse Work Setting (Healthcare)

September 2023 - December 2027

Summary of research

This is a study aimed towards an ethnographic exploration of collaboration in cross-functional teams (CFTs) in diverse work settings. It is intended to understand the hurdles of collaboration at work from midwives’ perspective and unfurl the gap in the theoretical positioning and the lived experiences. This study chose to explore the perspective of the midwives as the literature suggests that they are an integral part of the maternity care and yet they are do not enjoy equal privileges as the other professionals in the maternity units (State of World’s Midwifery Report (SoWMy), 2021). . The insights from this study will be intended to contribute to an effective framework of successful collaboration in the maternity units and the other cross-functional teams.

Research students

1^stsupervisor

• Professor Amit Nigam, Professor of Management

2^ndsupervisor

• Dr Angela Ellis Paine, Lecturer in Voluntary Sector Management
• Professor John Forth, Professor in Human Resources Management

Professional activities