Dr. N. (Nihit) Goyal
Profile
Nihit Goyal is an assistant professor at the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management. A recipient of the Eiffel Excellence Scholarship and the Yale Fox International Fellowship, Nihit has a Master in Public Affairs from Sciences Po and a PhD in Public Policy from the National University of Singapore. Previously, Nihit was a postdoc at the Yale-NUS College in Singapore and a researcher at the Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy in India.
Research
Nihit’s research focuses on analysing and informing the governance of the energy transition. He delves into three interconnected themes therein: the relationship among environment, process, design, and outcomes in policy-making; the co-evolution of technology and policy in sociotechnical systems; and energy and sustainable development. Nihit explores these through a multidisciplinary lens – drawing on policy studies, innovation studies, and global studies – as well as a varied methodological toolkit, combining data science, econometrics, and qualitative analysis.
- EPA2934 Preparation Master Thesis
- SEN1231 Mixed Research Methods for Multi-Actor Systems
- Goyal, N. (2021). Policy diffusion through multiple streams: The (non‐)adoption of energy conservation building code in India. Policy Studies Journal.
- Hsu, A., Tan, J., Ng, Y. M., Toh, W., Vanda, R., & Goyal, N. (2020). Performance determinants show European cities are delivering on climate mitigation. Nature Climate Change.
- Capano, G., Howlett, M., Jarvis, D. S. L., Ramesh, M., & Goyal, N. (2020). Mobilizing Policy (In)Capacity to Fight COVID-19: Understanding Variations in State Responses. Policy and Society, 39(3), 285-308.
- Goyal, N., & Howlett, M. (2020). Who learns what in sustainability transitions? Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 34, 311-321
- Goyal, N., Howlett, M., & Chindarkar, N. (2020). Who coupled which stream(s)? Policy entrepreneurship and innovation in the energy-water nexus in Gujarat, India. Public Administration and Development, 40(1), 49-64.
- Chindarkar, N., & Goyal, N. (2019). One price doesn't fit all: An examination of heterogeneity in price elasticity of residential electricity in India. Energy Economics, 81, 765-778.
- Goyal, N., Karra, M., & Canning, D. (2019). Early-life exposure to ambient fine particulate air pollution and infant mortality: Pooled evidence from 43 low- and middle-income countries. International journal of epidemiology, 48(4), 1125–1141.
- Goyal, N., & Howlett, M. (2019). Combining internal and external evaluations within a multilevel evaluation framework: Computational text analysis of lessons from the Asian Development Bank. Evaluation, 25(3), 366–380.
Nihit Goyal
Assistant Professor
- +31 15 27 89892
- Nihit.Goyal@tudelft.nl
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Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management
Building 31
Room number: B2.300
Department:
Multi-Actor Systems
Group:
Organization & Governance
Research interests:
Public policy
Energy transition
Computational social science
Policy innovation
Environmental health
