The SHD’s work spans multiple themes including housing, health, education, food, water and sanitation, migration, identity, and urban culture, and their intersections with economic, caste, gender, spatial, and climate justice.
This work focuses on:
Material quality of housing, impact of evictions on everyday life and income security, and access to rights and citizenship.
Relationships between housing, infectious and non-communicable diseases, and health outcomes.
Mitigation strategies for the exclusionary impacts of COVID-19.
Identifying interactions between migration, social identities, and climate adaptation.
Featured Projects
Chief Minister’s Rajasthan Economic Transformation Advisory Council (CMRETAC): Urban transitions (2022-2023)IIHS was commissioned to conduct a study to identify urbanising settlements in the state and provide strategies through a policy document and statutory framework aimed at ensuring sustainable transitions for these settlements.
Domestic workers and COVID-19: A study of impact and recovery (2019-2021)This study examined the impact of COVID-19 and lockdowns on domestic workers’ living conditions. The livelihood vertical investigated pay cuts, job losses, reduced wages, and household expenses. The housing vertical examined how diminished income affected rental housing security and rental expense management. It was conducted in partnership with the Rajasthan Mahila Kamgar Union (RMKU), and funded by AXA Research Fund.
Tacit Urban Research Network (TURN) (2017-2020)IIHS was part of a network along with the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, Hyderabad Urban Labs, and Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, to study tacit and informal urban knowledge in Indian cities. In this three-year project, IIHS focused on the study of informal and incrementally built low-income housing in Delhi and Bengaluru; as well as on small-scale affordable rental housing.
Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures (TESF) (2020-2023)This project developed sustainable institutional capacity in India, South Africa, Rwanda, and Somalia through high-quality research that helped stakeholders in these countries as well as at regional and local levels to better understand how education systems can be transformed to support sustainable development. The project was conducted in partnership with Bristol University and funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF)–Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
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