Ewan Harrison is a lecturer in Architectural Studies at the University of Manchester. His research focusses on architectural practice and capitalism in post-war Britain and the post-war British African empire, through analyses of both the design of buildings for business and the business of building and design. His work seeks to broaden our understanding of the production of architecture in the post-war period, by examining the interactions between commercial architects, contractors, and their clients, figures that are generally side-lined in canonical accounts of post-war modernism. Ewan was a co-author of Architecture, Empire & Trade: The United Africa Company (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2025). His research has also been published in The Journal of Design History, Architecture Beyond Europe, Twentieth Century British History, Architectural History, and The Architectural Review. He studied at the Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh, before completing a PhD at the University of Liverpool. Prior to his appointment at the University of Manchester, he was a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Liverpool, and the Colin St John Wilson Curator at the Royal Institute of British Architects Collections in London.