Tanvi Bhatikar’s primary area of work at IIHS is research communications and management. She is involved in the administration of the Research Programme, and provides communications (strategic, content, and editorial) support to the programme, institution and to specific research projects. Tanvi’s research also focuses on governance, particularly governing institutions and stakeholders and the implications of governing complexities on small towns in India.
Most recently, she was part of the GCRF-funded PEAK Urban project as a researcher studying the impact of the Chennai–Bengaluru Industrial Corridor (CBIC) on the governance of the peripheral town of Tumkur. She is also working on an Internal Research Grant (IRG) that looks at the evolution of governing structures in Goa through pre-colonial and post-colonial time periods. At the IIHS Urban Fellows Programme (UFP), she is part of the team that teaches governance, and offers the elective on governing industrial infrastructure.
2024, Law, Governance and Policy, Governance Commons, Faculty member, Governance, Urban Fellows Programme (UFP)
2024, Governing Mega-Infrastructure Projects, Faculty member, Governance, Urban Fellows Programme (UFP)
2024, Development Communication, Faculty member, Media and mass communication, Urban Fellows Programme (UFP)
