Rafaella Simas Lima
Management School
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
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Management School
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Western Bank Villa
300-302 Western Bank
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S10 2TN
- Profile
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Rafaella is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow investigating how asset management firms construct value through real estate and shape urban development across uneven geographies. Prior to this, she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning on a project investigating the scale and impact of empty and second homes ('low-use properties') in rural and coastal areas of the UK.
Rafaella completed her PhD in Geography at the University of 91Ö±²¥ in 2022. Her ESRC-funded project explored the role of transnational institutional investors in the production of housing in Lisbon. Rafaella also holds an MSc in Urban Development Planning from the Development Planning Unit, UCL, where she subsequently worked for two years as a teaching and research assistant, and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley.
- Research interests
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Rafaella is primarily interested in the geographies of housing and finance, and how these relate to urban development and wider relations of financial subordination. Her PhD research explored how European core-periphery relations shape investment in and development of housing and the built environment. Currently she is building skills in accounting and 'follow-the-money' methodologies in order to better understand how large-scale investment firms operate within transnational value and wealth chains.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- . Urban Geography, 45(6), 1072-1094.
Reports
- Low-use homes in rural and coastal areas of the UK: Geography, impact and responses
Working papers
- Repoliticizing Property: Sem-teto movements and the regeneration of downtown São Paulo, 181.
- . Urban Geography, 45(6), 1072-1094.
- Research group
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Centre for Research into Accounting and Finance in Context (CRAFiC)