Elara Shurety

Elara is a writer and PhD student in the Department of Geography at King's, researching damp and mould on regenerating Housing Associate estates in London. She is more broadly interested in urbanism, housing, dispossession, and the everyday, and she has previously worked on property guardianship as dispersed policing.

Elara is a member of the Radical Housing Journal editorial collective. Beyond academia, she has been part of anti-gentrification and climate activism, including the struggle against the redevelopment of the Seven Sisters Indoor Market (popularly known as the Latin Village) and the work towards the realisation of the Community Plan and common ownership of the site. She is a recipient of the London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (LISS DTP) studentship, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

Elara holds an MA in Research Architecture from the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths University of London, and a BA in Art and Architectural History from the University of Cambridge.