1. Public Health, Behavioural and Implementation Science ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

This is probably the strongest academic fit.

Why?

Because AMVA is increasingly becoming a framework about:

• Psychosocial safety
• Human systems
• Organisational behaviour
• Trust formation
• Change implementation
• Intervention effectiveness
• Measuring outcomes

The University would immediately understand:

Care → Trust → Ability → Work

as a behavioural and implementation science problem.

Your proposed research questions fit naturally:

• Does Care influence Trust?
• Does Trust mediate performance?
• Can Care-based interventions outperform process interventions?

These are classic implementation science questions.

2. Information Systems ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

This is probably the strongest fit to your personal history.

Remember where AMVA came from:

• ERP/EWM failures
• Enterprise systems
• Change management
• Human-system interaction
• Trust in systems
• Organisational performance

You already have:

• 40+ years industry experience
• Computer Science degree
• Extensive case studies
• EWM transformation examples

A thesis title could easily be:

AMVA: A Structural Framework for Understanding Trust, Capability and Performance in Enterprise Systems

This would be very credible.

3. Business Systems & Analytics ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Also a strong fit.

Particularly if AMVA becomes:

• Dashboard driven
• Survey driven
• Predictive analytics
• Risk forecasting
• Organisational diagnostics

This aligns nicely with:

AMVA System
AMVA Dashboard
Risk Index
Predictive Insights
System States

4. Management ⭐⭐⭐⭐

A good fit if AMVA becomes primarily:

• Organisational development
• Leadership
• Culture
• Performance improvement

The challenge is that Management schools sometimes prefer established theories rather than new system models.

5. Education ⭐⭐⭐

Interesting future option.

AMVA could be applied to:

• Learning environments
• Student engagement
• School systems

but that's probably not where the strongest evidence currently exists.

6. Sociology, Anthropology & Linguistics ⭐⭐⭐

If you pursued:

Is the Care and Trust Principle a universal human characteristic?

then Sociology becomes relevant.

But I'd leave this until AMVA has more evidence.

What I Would Choose

If your goal is to prove AMVA scientifically:

Public Health, Behavioural and Implementation Science

because:

• Psychosocial safety is already accepted.
• Care and Trust are accepted research topics.
• Intervention studies are normal.
• Mixed methods research is common.
• Organisational case studies are common.

If your goal is to build AMVA from your career experience:

Information Systems

because:

• AMVA was born from observing system failures.
• Your strongest evidence is EWM/ECC.
• Trust in systems is a recognised Information Systems topic.
• You already have decades of relevant experience.

My Personal Ranking For You

1. Information Systems ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. Public Health, Behavioural and Implementation Science ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
3. Business Systems & Analytics ⭐⭐⭐⭐
4. Management ⭐⭐⭐⭐
5. Sociology, Anthropology & Linguistics ⭐⭐⭐

Given your background, if I were writing the application today, I'd probably position AMVA as:

An Information Systems and Human Systems framework that explains how Care, Trust, Ability and Work interact to influence organisational performance and psychosocial outcomes.

That gives you a natural bridge between your lifelong experience in industrial computing, enterprise systems, change management, warehouse operations, and the newer psychosocial safety and trust concepts that AMVA is exploring.