by Sheila Msangi | Oct 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
Ask a child what they want to be when they grow up, and you will hear; doctor, engineer, teacher, pilot. You will almost never hear researcher. Not because children lack curiosity, but because “researcher” is rarely presented to them as a profession. There is no...
by Sheila Msangi | Oct 6, 2026 | Uncategorized
Media scanning is not just collecting news articles Recently, I came across media scanning as a data collection approach. What caught my attention was that it can be a deliberate qualitative method for generating and analysing data, not simply a review of media...
by Sheila Msangi | Sep 11, 2026 | Uncategorized
Of every participatory action research (PAR) method I have used, Photovoice is still the one I would choose first. Not because it produces good photographs, but because it is one of the few methods that does not let a researcher hide behind the role of observer. It...
by Sheila Msangi | Sep 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
There is a specific kind of fatigue that comes from good fieldwork followed by bad admin. You spend three days facilitating FPIC consultations or running a training, capture pages of rich notes, and then face the second job: turning all of that into a deck, a report,...
by Sheila Msangi | Sep 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
I was watching a TikTok video yesterday: a Kenyan content creator claiming that if Kenyans were sent to live in Tanzania, they wouldn’t survive a single day. Too slow, too polite: “We will turn the country upside down.” I did what most viewers do, went straight...
