Current projects

2024–2027

Causes and Consequences of Long-Term Inequality: Africa’s Levels and Trends

Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet)

Project researcher

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SEK 6,737,000Project award

2021–2026

The establishment, growth and legacy of a settler colony: Quantitative panel studies of the political economy of the Cape Colony

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond

Project researcher

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SEK 29,000,000Project award

2022–2026

Resilience to Economic Shrinking: The Role of Autonomous Financial Systems

Handelsbanken Research Foundations

Project researcher

SEK 1,725,000Project award

Upcoming project

2027–2029

Flying Blind: Tsetse Ecology, Colonial Response and Long-Run Health in Southeast Africa

Handelsbanken Research Foundations

Project researcher

SEK 1,500,000Project award

Earlier projects and research funding

2022–2025

Where have all the Workers Gone? Labour and Work in Ghana, 1951–2010

Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) and German Research Foundation (DFG)

Postdoctoral Research Associate

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SEK 3,332,000UK award, SEK equivalent

2017–2018

INSPIRE: Research visit to Stellenbosch University

Erasmus Mundus Action 2 Programme

Visiting researcher · Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Research training on the economic history of the Cape Colony.

SEK 157,000Research mobility scholarship

2016–2020

The Cape of Good Hope Panel: Long-term studies of growth, inequality and labour coercion in the global south

Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation · Handelsbanken Research Foundations

Researcher

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SEK 6,400,000Total project funding
SEK 4,500,000Wallenberg Foundation
SEK 1,900,000Handelsbanken

Funding amounts refer to project awards or the individual scholarship, as labelled.