Aditi Dey’s research in the PEAK project at IIHS is primarily examining the industrial profile and history of Bangalore.
Aditi's academic training is in the discipline of History, having done a Bachelor’s in History from St. Stephen’s College and a Master’s in Modern History from JNU.
She has worked as an ethnographer and qualitative researcher at a research agency in Mumbai for two years. She has had a diverse range of research stints, which include volunteering with rights based movements and social surveys for public schemes, NGOs focusing on education and conservation, and a policy think tank. At present she is interested in studying the ways in which a city goes through transformations, especially at the level of particular sites and neighbourhoods.
