Internships

The Practice Term is conceived as one of the key learning elements critical in transitioning Fellows from classroom learning to the complex world of work and practice.

Fellows choose from three options:

  • a two-month internship with an external organisation;
  • be part of an IIHS Live Project;
  • undertake an Independent Project

The exposure to real-world problems as a part of the Practice term is fuelled by the confidence that our graduates are going to shape India’s transformation. Its outputs can take multiple forms including conceptual papers, policy briefs or analysis, spatial plans, business models, technical reports, and film and video, among others. 

The diversity of projects and internship organisations highlights the multiple possibilities of interdisciplinary urban practice for our Fellows. For external internships, IIHS has partnered with development-sector organisations, think tanks, research institutions, movements, campaigns, government agencies and private sector organisations. For the IIHS Live Projects or Independent Projects, Fellows are mentored by faculty members at the IIHS interdisciplinary schools.

UFP Fellows have interned at

Advanced Centre for Women’s Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) | Centre for Community Knowledge, Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD) | Azim Premji University (APU) | Centre for Equity Studies and Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) | CEPT University | French Institute in Pondicherry (IFP) | Institute of Public Health (IPH) | International Innovation Corps, University of Chicago |International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore | George Institute for Global Health | Madras Institute for Development Studies (MIDS) | Mother Teresa Fellowship | National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) | National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) | National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) | National Law School of India University (NLS) |NSRCEL, IIM Bengaluru | Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) |School of Environment and Architecture (SEA) | Tacit Urban Research Network (TURN) | Tata Trusts |Well Labs

Aga Khan Foundation | Aajeevika Bureau | Adapt Consultancy Services | All India Disaster Mitigation Institute | Bamboo Research and Training Centre | Biome Environmental Trust |Canalpy | Centre for Advocacy and Research (CFAR) | Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) |Centre for Migration and Inclusive Development (CMID) |Center for North East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES) | Centre for Urban and Regional Excellence (CURE), India | Data Driven Governance – Tata Trusts | eGoverments Foundation |Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) | Gram Vikas | Habitat Forum India (INHAF) | Habitat for Humanity, India | Hasiru Dala | Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN) | Indo–Global Social Service Society (IGSSS) | Institute for Transport & Development Policy (ITDP) | International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW) | Mahila Housing Trust (SEWA-MHT) | Modern Architects of Rural India Nagarika | North East Network (NEN) | Parisar | Population Foundation of India (PFI) |Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN) | PRIA Society For Participatory Research In Asia| QUEST Alliance | Rural India Foundation | Sampark |Selco Foundation | SEWA Bharat (Enterprise Support System) | SEWA Bharat ( Economics of Nurture) |Sitara – Sewa Grih Rin | SEWA (Homenet) | SEWA  Bharat (Land Rights) | Shelter Associates | Social Accountability Forum for Action and Research (SAFAR) |Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society (SEEDS) | STS Global |Urban Land Institute x House of Kathiwada| YP Foundation | YUVA Global | Udhyam Learning Foundation | Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) | Youth for Voluntary Action (YUVA) | World Wide Fund for Nature, India (WWF)

Aurangabad Smart City Development Corporation Limited (ASCDCL) | EPIC / Revenue Department, Government of Karnataka | Karnataka Housing Board | Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) |National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR)| Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) 

Basti Suraksha Manch | Deen Bandhu Samaj Sahyog | Main Bhi Dilli | Shehri Adhikar Manch-Begharon ke Saath

Artha Global |Biome Environmental Solutions | Boston Consulting Group (BCG)| Bridgespan Group | CBRE Pvt. Ltd. | DASRA | Design and Planning Counsel (DPC) | DUNZO Pvt. Ltd | Eka Cultural Resource Centre | GAME | Global Development Incubator | IBI Group | IDinsight |IMAX Program | India School Leaders (ISLI) |Indicc Associates | Just Jobs Network | KPMG | New Text Pvt. Ltd. | People in Center | Pragma Development Advisory LPP | Quicksand | ReCity | Sambodhi Research and Communications Pvt. Ltd. | SHiFT – Studio for Habitat Futures | Sofies Sustainability Leaders Pvt. Ltd. | Studio CAMP | TATA Power | UC (Universal Consulting India Pvt. Ltd.) | Urban Play | Vihara Innovation Network | World Resources Institute (WRI)

Agents of Ishq | Alternative Law Forum | Bengaluru Citizen Matters | CNN International | Criminal Justice and Police Accountability Project| Godrej Archives |India Spend |IG4T Production House | India Water Portal (managed by Arghyam) | Land Conflict Watch | Observer Research Foundation|Ooloi Labs X Veditum India Foundation|Resetfest | Scroll.in | Srivastava, Naved and Parashar Partners (SNP partners) | The Wire Science | | Vidhi Legal

Aapti institute | Anveshi | Centre for Policy Research (CPR) | Center for Study of Science Technology and Policy (CSTEP) | Fields of View | Godrej India Culture Lab | Hyderabad Urban Lab (HUL) | IDFC Institute, Mumbai | International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) | Keystone Foundation | Lakeer Foundation | MicroHome Solutions (mHS City Lab) | Nirantar | Public Affairs Centre (PAC) | Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) | Social Accountability Forum for Action and Research (SAFAR)| Safetipin | Sensing Local | Social Design Collaborative | Swaniti Initiative | Urban Poverty Lab | Urbz | Vettiver Collective | Urban Works

UFP Fellows have undertaken IIHS Live projects and Independent Projects at the IIHS Schools

Independent Projects

Project TitlesCitiesStates
Story of a streetBengaluruKarnataka
Assessment of Shelter Arrangements: Rohingya Refugees in BengaluruBengaluruKarnataka
Evolvement of Religious Identity in the University SettingBengaluruKarnataka
Non-normative Gender, Desire, and DomesticityBengaluruKarnataka
Revisiting Caste in Urban UniversityBengaluruKarnataka
Other Backward Classes and the Question of Caste CitizenshipHyderabadTelangana
Contestation and Everyday life : A study of Kusumpur Pahadi in DelhiNew DelhiDelhi
Acts of creating property: through the idea of ‘wasteland’New DelhiDelhi
Advocacy for operations and maintenance of the infrastructure of Avadhigar Colony, Laggere, BangaloreBengaluruKarnataka

IIHS Live projects

Project TitlesCitiesStates
A City of Migrants: Understand Precarity Through Livelihood Lens in SiliguriSiliguriWest Bengal
Enabling Inclusive Conversations Around Exclusive BreastfeedingNew DelhiDelhi
Healthy Vizag: Interventions in Sanitation and Solid Waste.Vizag (Visakhapatanam)Andra Pradesh
Living with Floods: How Rural Volunteers Centre in Assam is Building Community ResilienceDhemajiAssam
Refurbishment of District Hospitals in LucknowLucknowUttar Pradesh
Resilient Strategy for Cuttack’s Health Woes (with a focus on Jaundice)CuttackOdisha
State of the Field Report on Urban Health in IndiaAcross India 
Secondary Research on Rental HousingAcross India6 States – Delhi, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Odisha, Tamil Nadu
Toolkit on Housing and Planning for Housing Rights Activists in JharkhandRanchi and BhubaneshwarJharkhand and Odisha
Indore project: A social assessment of resettlement sites and a land audit of the sites they were shiftedIndoreMadhya Pradesh
Low-income rental housingBengaluruKarnataka
Maa Tere Doodh Ka HaqAcross India 
PEAK HealthBengaluruKarnataka
Peri-urban village and casteBengaluruKarnataka
Podcast (Urban Health)Across India 
Assessing the Feasibility of the School Complex/ Consolidation Model in Urban AreasDevanahalli (Bangalore Rural)Karnataka
A Study of Caste Dimensions of Peri-Urban Village Transformations in BangaloreBengaluruKarnataka
How do People Build their Houses in a Refugee Colony in the City of SiliguriSiliguriWest Bengal
Inclusive Cities Course: Planning for ActivistsIndoreMadhya Pradesh
Inclusive Cities Project – Urban KNOW TeamIndoreMadhya Pradesh
Rental Housing Arrangements and Domestic Workers in JaipurJaipurRajasthan
UNICEF Programming 101 – Urban Informality and ChildcareNot place based – UNICEF program 
UNICEF – Urban Informality and ChildcareNot place based – UNICEF program 
Accessibility of Urban Spaces for Differently Abled PeopleBengaluruKarnataka
Affordable Rental Housing Complexes (ARHC) A Survey on Rental Housing – Program ReviewSurat, AhmedabadGujarat
Changing Landlord and Tenant Relationship Post-CovidBengaluruKarnataka
Covid 19 and Lockdown Impact on Domestic Workers of JaipurJaipurRajasthan
Impact of Covid 19 and Lockdown on RHAs of Domestic Workers. Rajasthan Mahila Kamgar Union (RMKU), JaipurJaipurRajasthan
Landlord Tenant Relationships (LTR) in Rental Housing Arrangements of Jaipur, in Association with Rajasthan Mahila Kamgar Union (RMKU)JaipurRajasthan
Main Bhi Dilli – Research and AdvocacyNew DelhiDelhi
PEAK Project (Research area: Urban Health)BengaluruKarnataka
Survey on Rental Housing Program Review: Affordable Rental Housing Complexes (ARHCs) Ease of Living8 Cities – Delhi, Mumbai, Indore, Bhopal, Hyderabad, Guwahati, Nagpur, BengaluruDelhi, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Assam, Karnataka
Tracing Impact and Recovery of Domestic Workers in JaipurJaipurRajasthan
Chief Minister’s Economic Transformation Advisory Council (CMETAC)Across Rajasthan
Community Perception of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS): An exploratory study in BangaloreBengaluruKarnataka
Government housing schemes in JharkhandAcross Jharkhand
Livelihoods and Nurturing Care for Women in Informal Work/Paid Domestic WorkJaipurRajasthan
Memory, Identity and Deindustrialisation : Reflections from the Post-industrial Mill-scapes of BangaloreBengaluruKarnataka
PEAK Project: Urban Health research streamAcross India 
Portability and the accessibility of the BOCW scheme among the migrant workersBengaluruKarnataka
Rental housing for blue-collar workers.BengaluruKarnataka
Study of paid and unpaid care work in urban homes in the cities of Bangalore and Chennai for the International Labour Organisation.Bengaluru & ChennaiKarnataka and Tamil Nadu
Housing and living conditions of women migrant blue-collar workers in garment and textile industriesBengaluruKarnataka
Scoping Literature Review on intersections of Climate and Health to understand actors and practices and perspectives in the global south (focusing on Indian context)Across India 
Exploring Caste dimensions in Urban: A Literature ReviewAcross India 
Drivers and Delivery Workers: Matching Occupational Hazards with Health InsuranceBengaluruKarnataka
Industrial Estates and their impact on Employment and EcologyBengaluruKarnataka
A critical examination of a pilot project for housing solutions for the unorganized industrial workersAhmedabadGujarat
Imagining an urban MNREGAAcross India 
State of the Field: Social ProtectionAcross India 
Understanding marginalization from the intersection of health in the urban – a scoping reviewAcross India 
Mapping the existing ecosystem of creche(s) for informal women workersAcross India 
Mapping the shared rental housing market in BengaluruBengaluruKarnataka
Bridging the gap- Experience & Challenges of Enabling across of higher educationBengaluru, Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, ChandrapurKarnataka, Maharasthra
Research Assistant to Gautam Bhan on Indian Urban Inequality projectBengaluruKarnataka
Climate Change & Health: Scoping Literature ReviewOdisha, Delhi, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
Feasibility analysis for setting up creches for domestic workersJaipur and BengaluruKarnataka, Rajasthan

Independent Projects

Project TitlesCitiesStates
Bodh Gaya’s Rural Urban DilemmaBodh GayaBihar

IIHS Live projects

Project TitlesCitiesStates
A Morphology of Delhi Through its Property RecordsNew DelhiDelhi
Aggregators: A Tale of RegulationsAcross IndiaKarnataka, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Delhi
Calcutta Citi(es): Planning and VariationsCalcuttaWest Bengal
Development and Performance Indicators for 12 Urban Local Bodies in KarnatakaUrban Local Bodies in KarnatakaKarnataka
Peri-Urban Transformation and Adaptation Strategies in Bengaluru’s PeripheryBengaluruKarnataka
Secondary Research on Rental HousingAcross India6 States – Delhi, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Odisha, Tamil Nadu
The Hungry CitiesBengaluruKarnataka
Toolkit on Housing and Planning for Housing Rights Activists in JharkhandRanchi and BhubaneshwarJharkhand and Odisha
Why the “Why vs Micro-entrepreneur” Debate is Reductive – Seeing Through the Eyes of Uber/ Ola Driver PartnersBengaluruKarnataka
Maa Tere Doodh Ka HaqAcross India 
PEAK EconomyBengaluruKarnataka
PEAK Land – Jolly MohallaBengaluruKarnataka
PEAK Land – land-based financingBengaluruKarnataka
Tempos, Trucks and TechBengaluruKarnataka
Warehousing projectBengaluruKarnataka
Hungry Cities – Exploring Questions on Mobility and Governance through the Street Vending ActBengaluruKarnataka
Hungry Cities Project on Urban Food System and Food SecurityBengaluruKarnataka
Inclusive Cities Project – Urban KNOW TeamIndoreMadhya Pradesh
Metropolitan Development and Land-based FinancingBengaluruKarnataka
Metropolitan Land-based Financing for Bangalore InternationalBengaluruKarnataka
PEAK Urban Project: Manufacturing CitiesChennai-Bangalore industrial corridorKarnataka-Tamil Nadu
PEAK Urban Land: Analysis of Land Based Financing at the Bangalore AirportBengaluruKarnataka
PEAK Urban Land: Making of an Economic HubBengaluruKarnataka
PEAK Urban Land: Understanding the Economic and Financial value of Land in Jolly Mohalla.BengaluruKarnataka
Innovative Land-based Financing Mechanisms used by the BBMPBengaluruKarnataka
Making Industrial Corridors Work for Agriculture in India: An Op-EdDelhi- Mumbai Industrial CorridorDelhi, Maharashtra
Mapping Economic Clusters in Bangalore Neighbourhoods: Moving Beyond the Cities Embellished Growth StoryBengaluruKarnataka
Chief Minister’s Economic Transformation Advisory Council (CMETAC)Across Rajasthan
Memory, Identity and Deindustrialisation : Reflections from the Post-industrial Mill-scapes of BangaloreBengaluruKarnataka
Rethinking off-grid cities: neighbourhood registers of food retailBengaluruKarnataka
Rethinking off-grid cities: neighbourhood registers of infrastructure.BengaluruKarnataka
Rethinking off-grid citiesBengaluruKarnataka
Drivers and Delivery Workers: Matching Occupational Hazards with Health InsuranceBengaluruKarnataka
Imagining an urban MNREGAAcross India 
Spatial Distribution of Employment and Income in CMA – Position for Qualitative Research and AnalysisChennai and BengaluruKarnataka, Tamil Nadu

Independent Projects

Project TitlesCitiesStates
Bodh Gaya’s Rural Urban DilemmaBodh GayaBihar

IIHS Live projects

Project TitlesCitiesStates
Aggregators: A Tale of RegulationsAcross IndiaKarnataka, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Delhi
Development and Performance Indicators for 12 Urban Local Bodies in KarnatakaUrban Local Bodies in KarnatakaKarnataka
Exploratory Study On Governance: A Spatial Story Perspective Governing LandBengaluruKarnataka
The Hungry CitiesBengaluruKarnataka
Understanding the Landscape of Institutions and Collaborative Action in Bangalore’s Water SectorBengaluruKarnataka
Across Policy and Practice: exploring the land pooling storyNew DelhiDelhi
AMRUT 2 reformsTumkurKarnataka
Call me by my name (Karnataka Goonda Act)BengaluruKarnataka
Localizing the SDGsBengaluruKarnataka
PEAK Land – land-based financingBengaluruKarnataka
Digital Accounting Module for Management of CommunityTrichyTamil Nadu
Hungry Cities – Exploring Questions on Mobility and Governance through the Street Vending ActBengaluruKarnataka
Hungry Cities Project on Urban Food System and Food SecurityBengaluruKarnataka
Metropolitan Development and Land-based FinancingBengaluruKarnataka
Metropolitan Land-based Financing for Bangalore InternationalBengaluruKarnataka
PEAK Urban Land: Analysis of Land Based Financing at the Bangalore AirportBengaluruKarnataka
Cities of What-ifsDelhi- Mumbai Industrial Corridor and the Maputo corridor in MozambiqueDelhi, Maharashtra – India; Mozambique
Making Industrial Corridors Work for Agriculture in India: An Op-EdDelhi- Mumbai Industrial CorridorDelhi, Maharashtra
Mega Infrastructure: Mapping the Industrial Landscape of TumkurTumkurKarnataka

Independent Projects

Project TitlesCitiesStates
Lakes Beyond Barriers: A Case Study of Jakkur LakeBengaluruKarnataka

IIHS Live projects

Project TitlesCitiesStates
Ecological Farming In The UrbanBengaluruKarnataka
Healthy Vizag: Interventions in Sanitation and Solid Waste.Vizag (Visakhapatanam)Andra Pradesh
Living with Floods: How Rural Volunteers Centre in Assam is Building Community ResilienceDhemajiAssam
Masculinities and Micro-entrepreneurship: The Experience of App Work.BengaluruKarnataka
Planning ‘Violations’ and Urban Inclusion10 Cities Across India 
Peri-Urban Transformation and Adaptation Strategies in Bengaluru’s PeripheryBengaluruKarnataka
Localizing the SDGsBengaluruKarnataka
Sulikere forestBengaluruKarnataka
Niligiri Biosphere and the Communication Archive of the PandemicNilgiri Biosphere ReserveKerala
Skin Net Zero Building in Solar Decathlon India (SDI)BengaluruKarnataka
Urban Flood (+ Drought): Vulnerability AssessmentHyderabadTelangana
When the Levee Breaks: Sharpening India’s Climate Reportage in the Age of AnthropoceneAcross India 
Assessment of quantity and quality of historic waste disposed in one of the ULBs of KarnatakaKushalnagaraKarnataka
Scoping Literature Review on intersections of Climate and Health to understand actors and practices and perspectives in the global south (focusing on Indian context)Across India 
Industrial Estates and their impact on Employment and EcologyBengaluruKarnataka
Sustainability Assessment of Experimental Building at KengeriBengaluruKarnataka
Atlas of solid waste processing/ disposal sites in Karnataka/ IndiaBengaluru
Correct: Hubli-Dharwad
Karnataka
Role of Flood Preparedness Assessment Scorecard in improving flood preparedness and actual response – A review of effectivenessAcross Assam

Independent Projects

Project TitlesCitiesStates
Advocacy for operations and maintenance of the infrastructure of Avadhigar Colony, Laggere, BangaloreBengaluruKarnataka

IIHS Live projects

Project TitlesCitiesStates
Refurbishment of District Hospitals in LucknowLucknowUttar Pradesh
Understanding the Landscape of Institutions and Collaborative Action in Bangalore’s Water SectorBengaluruKarnataka
AMRUT 2 reformsTumkurKarnataka
Low-income rental housingBengaluruKarnataka
PEAK infrastructure and planningGIFT CityGujarat
PEAK spatial modelling and waterBengaluruKarnataka
Digital Accounting Module for Management of CommunityTrichyTamil Nadu
Mapping Urban Missions to Sustainable Development GoalsMaduraiTamil Nadu
PEAK Urban Project: Manufacturing CitiesChennai-Bangalore industrial corridorKarnataka-Tamil Nadu
To Develop a Digital Module to Facilitate Monitoring of Accounting Activities as part of the Management of Community Toilets in TrichyTrichyTamil Nadu
Accessibility of Urban Spaces for Differently Abled PeopleBengaluruKarnataka
Affordable Comfort for All: Analysis of Thermal Comfort at the Experimental Building, Kengeri CampusBengaluruKarnataka
Affordable Rental Housing Complexes (ARHC) A Survey on Rental Housing – Program ReviewSurat, AhmedabadGujarat
Landlord Tenant Relationships (LTR) in Rental Housing Arrangements of Jaipur, in Association with Rajasthan Mahila Kamgar Union (RMKU)JaipurRajasthan
Mega Infrastructure: Mapping the Industrial Landscape of TumkurTumkurKarnataka
Skin Net Zero Building in Solar Decathlon India (SDI)BengaluruKarnataka
An exploration of public transport in BangaloreBengaluruKarnataka
Assessment of quantity and quality of historic waste disposed in one of the ULBs of KarnatakaKushalnagaraKarnataka
Assessment of vulnerabilities and risk to critical infrastructure systems in Cuttack and SuratCuttack and SuratOdisha and Gujarat
Mapping the social equity effects of energy transition – A case of BESCOM, BengaluruBengaluruKarnataka
Sustainability Assessment of Experimental Building at KengeriBengaluruKarnataka
A critical examination of a pilot project for housing solutions for the unorganized industrial workersAhmedabadGujarat
Justice implications of large scale Renewable Energy deployment: A case of Pavagada solar parkPavgadaKarnataka
Role of Flood Preparedness Assessment Scorecard in improving flood preparedness and actual response – A review of effectivenessAcross Assam

Independent Projects

Project TitlesCitiesStates
Space, Belonging and Everyday Learning Experiences: A Case Study of Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS)BengaluruKarnataka
How are Cultural Practices reproduced in the City?: The site of the Drishti GombeBengaluruKarnataka

IIHS Live projects

Project TitlesCitiesStates
Moving Towards a Gender-Sensitive PedagogyAcross India 
Tales From CochinCochinKerala
(Im)possibilities of Cosmopolitan Potentialities and Negation of the Urban ConditionsJaipurRajasthan
Pedagogic resource tools and archive: Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality (KNOW)
The Moving Museum of the City: Industrial Narratives of BengaluruBengaluruKarnataka
Mapping KR Puram: Analysing Economy, Ecology, Housing and Built Environment in KR PuramBengaluruKarnataka
Cinema in the City: Understanding cinema exhibition ecosystemsBengaluruKarnataka
Archiving Planning for Activists (KNOW website)Across India 
Building curriculumBengaluruKarnataka