Research
AHUWA
Research Centre
Architecture, Heritage and Urbanism in West Africa. Co-directed with Ola Uduku and Taibat Lawanson, Liverpool School of Architecture
2022
Architecture Beyond Europe
Research Network, COST Action IS0904
Management Committee member. European Cooperation in Science and Technology. The spread of European architecture across empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
2010–2014
Afterlives of Colonial Incarceration: African Prisons, Architecture and Politics
Research Project, Co-investigator
Newcastle University, Leverhulme Trust. Led by Laura Routley
2022–2025
Architect in Residence, Unilever Archives
Residency
AHRC Impact Acceleration Account, University of Liverpool. United Africa Company collection
2024
West Africa in the Archives
Research Project, Project Lead
University of Liverpool. Survey by Paul Robinson
2022
The Architecture of the United Africa Company: Building Mercantile West Africa
Research Project, Principal Investigator
Leverhulme Trust. With Ewan Harrison, Michele Tenzon, Rixt Woudstra and Claire Tunstall, Unilever Archives
2021–2023
What is a Good City?
Research Project
British Academy. Led by Ranald Lawrence. Output: My City Invisible: Accra, with Allotey Bruce-Konuah
2021–2024
Architecture and Planning in the Tropics: From Imperial Gold Coast to Tropical Ghana
Research Project, Principal Investigator
British Academy International Partnership and Mobility Grant. With Rexford Assasie Oppong, Irene Appeaning Addo and Ola Uduku
2015–2018
Envisioning the Indian City
Research Project, Principal Investigator
UKIERI and British Academy, with Jadavpur University. With Nandini Das and Ian Magedera
2013–2016
Herbert Rowse
Research Project, Principal Investigator
RIBA Research Fund. With Simon Pepper and Peter Richmond
2014–2019
The Architecture of Fry and Drew
Research Project, Principal Investigator
Leverhulme Trust and Paul Mellon Centre. With Jessica Holland
2011–2013
Partnersexternal collaborators
- Unilever Archives and Records ManagementThe Architecture of the United Africa Company, research projectArchitect in Residence, 2024Sharing Stories from Jamestown
- The National Archives, UKCollaborative PhD: Nation-Building and Tropical Modernism, Adefolatomiwa Toye
- Tate ModernNigerian Modernism, exhibition consultancyCrucibles, Vectors, Catalysts: Envisioning the Modern City, seminar series co-convened with the Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational, 2021
- National Museums Liverpool, Lady Lever Art GalleryWorkshop rethinking the Lever ‘ethnographic’ collection with the Congolese Association, 2026
- ArchiAfrikaSharing Stories from Jamestown
- University College London (UCL)MoHoA: Modern Heritage of Africa
- University of Cape TownMoHoA: Modern Heritage of Africa
- Newcastle UniversityAfterlives of Colonial Incarceration: African Prisons, Architecture and Politics