Across all three bodies of work, a defining philosophy emerges: ask the harder, more human question to translate what we know into what we do, at scale, where it matters most and with lasting impact. 

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Dr Avantika Bhardwaj's undergraduate thesis at Purdue University, "Sustainable Implementation of Community-Based Interventions" project saw her collaborate with state-wide youth team sports programmes to explore how the right conditions, not just the right programmes, determine whether community interventions truly take root. 

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At the University of Glasgow, her postgraduate thesis, "The Association of Types of Physical Activity with Colorectal Cancer Risk: A UK Biobank Prospective Study", applied rigorous statistical analysis to investigate how the type, not just the amount, of physical movement shapes long-term disease risk using one of the largest health datasets in the world. 

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Her doctoral thesis at the University of Limerick, "Bridging the Implementation Gap: A Contextual Approach to Promote Implementation of Guideline-Based Management for Osteoarthritis", tackled one of healthcare's most persistent problems: the gap between what evidence tells us to do and what actually happens in practice. Using a mixed-methods, participatory health research design within an observational cohort and guided by the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research, Dr Avantika Bhardwaj explored the complex web of contextual factors - at the person, professional, setting, and innovation level - that shape whether evidence is adopted and sustained. ​