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...
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...
