Cultural Research & Strategy.

I enjoy blending academic rigour with storytelling, making complex ideas more accessible and turning research into insight that informs strategy. By bridging history and contemporary practice, I help artists, cultural workers, and policymakers understand the forces shaping creative industries and design interventions accordingly. I study culture the way I study dancefloors as a DJ: listening for patterns, tracing the rhythms that shape how we move through the world.

Reach out if you need a research and strategy that connects theory to lived experience, turning cultural knowledge into actionable understanding.

PH.D Research

I am deeply intrigued by relationships between music and society in African contexts. My ongoing doctoral research, The Other Cool: Care Ethics & Alté(rnative) Culture in the Age of Afrobeats, explores how alternative musicians in Accra are informed by community, demonstrating care for social issues and wider society. It is part of a collaborative research project between the University of Ghana and Copenhagen Business School, funded by DANIDA, to support the development of Ghana’s cultural and creative industries.

RESEARCH REPORTS

• Mapping Music Venues & Spaces in Accra Towards Strengthening Ghana’s Cultural & Creative Industries (CCIs); a report for Expertise Africa (Mar 2024)
• Forces of Art: Perspectives from a Changing World (with Dr. Joseph Oduro Frimpong; Idea Books, 2020) chapter on ‘The Sustainability of Contemporary Arts Spaces in Ghana, Tanzania & Uganda‘

Research Grants & Scholarships

• DANIDA Doctoral Scholarship (2019): awarded $75,000 Ph.D. scholarship by the DANIDA Fellowship Centre as part of its ‘Advancing Creative Industries for Development in Ghana‘ research project with the University of Ghana
• The Force of Art (2018): received €10,000 research grant from HIVOS, Prince Claus Fund & the European Cultural Foundation to study how non-profit art spaces transform people and situations in Ghana, Uganda & Tanzania