About me

I am a social scientist from London. My research focuses on housing, land, property and power. I have a particular interest in the growing role of housing and land in processes of capital accumulation. My research draws connections between structures of ownership and control and everyday experiences and social relations. I am especially drawn to the ‘leading edge’ of rent-seeking and corporate extraction from residential space. This includes intensifying forms of experimentation at the housing-tech-finance nexus, as venture capitalists and real estate start-ups seek to ‘disrupt’ property markets. I am also interested in the political economy of land and the role of property in broader questions of inequality and wealth distribution. I take an interdisciplinary social-scientific approach to these issues, drawing on fields including urban studies, economic sociology and critical political economy.

I am currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King’s College London. Prior to this, I was an Alex von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Free University of Berlin. I gained my PhD from the London School of Economics in 2023, where I continue to be a Visiting Fellow.