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...
by Sheila Msangi | Aug 21, 2026 | Uncategorized
Most guidance on qualitative fieldwork starts with the discussion guide: the questions, the sampling, the analysis plan. Good fieldwork starts upstream of that, with entry and facilitation, because that is where the guide either gets used well or never gets the chance...
by Sheila Msangi | Aug 12, 2026 | Uncategorized
Almost every qualitative researcher I have met tells the same story, and none of them tell it on purpose. Ask how they ended up doing this work, and you will hear some version of: it just happened, and I found myself in qualitative research. I believed this was true...
