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Rafaella Simas Lima is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Sheffield's Management School, investigating how asset management firms shape urban development through real estate investments. She previously served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, focusing on low-use properties in UK rural and coastal areas.
Her PhD in Geography (University of Sheffield, 2022) examined transnational institutional investors' roles in Lisbon's housing market. She holds an MSc from UCL’s Development Planning Unit and a BA from UC Berkeley.
Research interests include geographies of housing and finance, urban development, and financial subordination. She employs 'follow-the-money' methodologies to trace transnational investment flows.
Her publications include analyses of Lisbon’s subordinate housing financialization and the global real estate market dynamics. She contributes to the Centre for Research into Accounting and Finance in Context (CRAFiC).
