Vrashali Khandelwal

Consultant – Academics & Research | vkhandelwal at iihs dot ac dot in
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EDUCATION:

2016    MA, Development, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
2014    BE (Honours), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, MSc (Honours), Biological Sciences,BITS Pilani, Pilani, Rajasthan

 

Countries: India
States: Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana
Cities: Bangalore, Delhi
Languages: English, Hindi

Vrashali Khandelwal is part of the Academics and Research team at IIHS, where she focuses on exploring aspects of urban infrastructure, governance, and social protection. Before her tenure at IIHS, Vrashali contributed to a variety of government advisory projects. Her role in the Chief Minister’s Good Governance Associate programme involved research and implementation of government schemes and policies with the District Administration in Sirsa (Haryana). She has also been a part of the Sustainable Action for Transforming Human Capital -Education (SATH-E) project, aimed at bringing about systemic educational reforms for Madhya Pradesh’s School Education Department. In 2019, she joined the urban government advisory practice at Ernst & Young (EY) and was involved with multiple practice projects at state and central level. Vrashali was a Fellow of the Urban Fellows Programme at IIHS in 2017–18. Besides work, she loves going for walks and spending her weekends at public parks.

Training

  • Built Environment and Planning, Urban infrastructure, Urban Fellows Programme (UFP), IIHS
  • Urban Social Protection,Social protection, Urban Fellows Programme (UFP), IIHS

Journal Articles

  • Bhan, G., Anand, S., Nagpal, S. & Khandelwal, & V. (2024). Reimagining urban employment programmes. Economic and political weekly, 59(22). https://www.epw.in/journal/2024/22/commentary/reimagining-urban-employment-programmes.html
  • Living Off-Grid Food and Infrastructure Collaboration (LOGIC), Battersby, J., Brown-Luthango, M., Fuseini, I., Gulabani, H., Haysom, G., Jackson, B., Khandelwal, V., MacGregor, H., Mitra, S., Nisbett, N., Perera, I., Te Lintelo, D., Thorpe, J., & Toriro, P. (2023). Bringing together urban systems and food systems theory and research is overdue: Understanding the relationships between food and nutrition infrastructures along a continuum of contested and hybrid access. Agriculture and Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-023-10507-6

 

Other Writing

  • Khandelwal, V., Peddibhotla, A., Gulabani, H., & Mitra, S. (2023, 25 June – 1 July). Repair as infrastructure: Case of Bengaluru, India. Paper presented at the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology. Melbourne Convention Exhibition Centre; International Sociological Association. https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/melbourne-2023
  • Ravindranath, D. & Khandelwal, V. (2023, 21 June – 25 June). Care Infrastructure for children of migrant worksites in India. Paper presented at the Care Infrastructure in Unequal Worlds Symposium. Western Sydney University.
  • Mitra, S., Khandelwal, V., & Gulabani, H. (2023, 25 June – 1 July). Unpacking adoption and adaptation in infrastructure assemblages: Case of Bengaluru, India. Paper presented at the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology. Melbourne Convention Exhibition Centre; International Sociological Association. https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/melbourne-2023
  • (Re)thinking the Off Grid City
  • Informality and Child Care
  • Children in All Policies 2030 project
  • CMRETAC Project: Towards a Different Future of Work: A Framework for Informal Work and Workers in Urban Rajasthan
  • Urban Employment Programmes
  • Documenting the gastronomy culture of Hyderabad, for inclusion in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN), EY
  • Strategy design for streamlining building plan approval process for real estate sector in Telangana (CREDAI)
  • Organisation Restructuring for School Education Department, Government of Madhya Pradesh,Central Square Foundation, Boston Consulting Group