A Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. Her research areas are Urban Housing Studies, Traditional Architecture and African Urbanisms. She is involved in several projects, including the Andrew Mellon-funded project on Entanglement, Mobility and Improvisation: Culture and Arts in Contemporary African Urbanism and its Hinterlands; the ODA-funded project on Keeping Your Cool: Modern Architectural Heritage and Climatic Comfort in Ghana, and the British Academy-funded project on Adaptation and Self-Recovery Solutions for Housing Flooding Resilience in Ghana. Irene has several journal publications and book chapters to her credit. Her recent publications include Genealogies of Ghana’s Housing Crisis: The Role of Colonial Interventions and Neoliberal Reforms (International Journal of Housing Policy, 2021) and New Homes for a New State: Foreign Ideas in Ghana’s Public Housing Programmes.