MANAGED/COMMISSIONED RESEARCH REPORTS AND CONSULTANCIES 

1. Applied for and managed the “Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Programme.” The project hosted at the Department of History and Political Studies/KNUST focused on graduate student training and mentoring of Faculty, May 2017.

2. Sustaining Peace: Making Development Work for the Prevention of Violent Conflicts, UN-World Bank flagship study on preventing violent conflict through development policies, December 2016-April 2017.

3. Civil service reform and anti-corruption in developing countries – Ghana Case study, a project funded by DFID and the British Academy, July 2016.

4. THE NOPOOR PROJECT, the Quality of Governance and Inclusive Development Outcomes: The Ghanaian Experience, the study was sponsored by the NOPOOR research consortium, June 2016.

5. New Geographies of Hope and Despair, a project funded by Danish Research Council, published as a DIIS Working Paper, “Rescuing Migrants in Libya: The Political Economy of State Responses to Migration Crisis – The Case of Ghana,” DIIS Working Paper 16, December 2012.

Projects:
On-Going Research Project

2021-2023: ‘Old Parks, New Futures: Documenting the Uses of Open Space in an African City,’ (British Academy’s Humanities and Social Sciences Tackling Global Challenges Programme).
Old urban parks fall outside planning visions of African citites. They suffer from poor maintenance, poor services and are seen as costing too much. Taking Kumasi, once known as the Garden City of West Africa, as a setting, this project investigates changing and contested uses of Jackson Park, created in 1955. Jackson Park is popular with poorer residents, it free, it is also crowded and a messy counterpoint to the new “pay-foraccess” parks being developed in the city. How do different actors use Jackson Park? How is this changing over time? What can the experience of Jackson Park contribute to policy and planning? We explore these questions, establishing an archive of Jackson Park, and a series of research and policy outputs asking questions about the future role of old urban parks. The project brings in three young Ghana-based researchers, organized in partnership with a Ghanaian community group.

2021-2022: ‘Party Branding in Africa – Political Images, Narratives, and Voting Decisions,’ (Programme Point Sud, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).