Sharda Rozena

Dr Sharda Rozena serves as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Sheffield's School of Geography and Planning, where her research confronts systemic housing injustices in London through critical urban geography frameworks. She investigates the violent spatial transformations driven by financialization, gentrification, and displacement, with urgent attention to marginalized tenant experiences.

Research Interests

Rozena's work dissects gentrification (including 'Airbnbification' and offshore capital flows), critical geographies of architecture centered on Grenfell Tower's facadism, and everyday housing violence manifesting as displacement, un-homing, and survivability struggles. She interrogates financialized housing markets, elite spaces, and rent control policies while highlighting tenant resistance through communal creativity and revolutionary action.

Publications Trends

Her 2022-2024 publications reveal an intense focus on London's housing crises, documenting buy-to-leave speculation in Kensington, post-Grenfell displacement on Lancaster West Estate, and embodied tenant resistance against corporate landlords. Methodologically, she bridges ethnography with public scholarship—exemplified by her art exhibition translating academic findings into visceral community narratives about housing injustice.

Scientific Awards

• Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship

Advising and Grants

No information is available regarding student supervision or additional grant funding beyond her Leverhulme Fellowship. Her research appears independently driven through institutional support at Sheffield.

Labs and Teams

While affiliated with the School of Geography and Planning, specific lab memberships or research teams are not referenced in the source material, suggesting autonomous fellowship-driven work.