Brenda Mukungu

Skilled and detail-oriented researcher with over 3+ years of extensive experience in collecting and analyzing data. Possess in-depth-knowledge of procedures and practices in research.

RECENT APPOINTMENT (April 2022-May 2023)  

Collaborating Researcher, University of Edinburgh, ‘Mobilized, recruited, conscripted? Leveraging community health work, citizenship and public authority in northern Kenya. 

• Conducting in-depth, unstructured life history interviews with CHVs, ethnography through community events and participant observation. 
• Taking lead in supporting field research activities. 
• Developing plans to execute agreed-upon research projects within budget and time requirements. 
• Analysing qualitative data using data analysis tools to identify and validate research conclusions. 
• Coordianted photovoice exercise with the CHVs.

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS  

Research Supervisor, AMREF Health Africa, ‘lived experiences and effects of COVID-19 on accessibility and delivery of HIV, TB and malaria services among health care workers and users in Kenya’( November 

2021- December 2021) 

• Supervising and coordinating the provision of support services to researchers 
• Conducted key informant interviews with policy makers and program managers 
• Monitor the progress of research activities, developing and maintaining records of research activities and preparing periodic reports as required by the investigators. 
• Implementing quality control process throughout the research process 

Research Assistant, Population Council, Kenya, ‘Understanding stunting in Kenya: Looking at the factors affecting malnutrition during early childhood in Kwale, Nakuru, Nyandarua and West Pokot Counties’ (August 2021-October 2021) 

• Conducting in-depth interviews and  managing focus group discussion 
• Carrying out case narratives in the different households with stunted and non-stunted children 
• Conducted key informant interviews with  program managers 

Research Coordinator, Fred Hollows Foundation, ‘The influence of Covid 19 on eye health in Homa-Bay and Tharaka Nithi counties’, (May 2021-June 2021) 

• Conducted surveys, focus group discussions as well as key informant interviews with respondents from Homa-Bay and Tharaka-Nithi  Transcription of the collected data. 
• Implementing quality control throughout the research process 
• Qualitative analysis of the data 

Research Coordinator, African Gender and Media Trust, ‘The assessment of the FGM knowledge management products including documentation of good practices, changing trends of FGM in Kenya and integration of end FGM modules into the trainings of Kenya School of Government’, (December 2020January 2021) 

• Conducted telephone interviews with stakeholders across the different counties. 
• Transcription of the collected data. 
• Developing and maintaining records of research activities and preparing periodic reports as required by the investigators. 

Research Coordinator, African Gender and Media Trust, ‘Understanding the impact of FGM/C amongst practicing communities across Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Somalia, and Ethiopian borders’, (January 2020)

• Monitoring the progress of research activities, developing and maintaining records of research activities and preparing periodic reports as required by the investigators. 
• Supervising and coordinating the provision of support services to researchers 
• Implementing quality control process throughout the research process. 
• Report writing 

Research Intern, Population council, Kenya (November 2018-March 2019) 

• Taking lead in conducting literature review and report writing on assigned topics on FGM/C. 
• Taking lead in anonymization and archiving of qualitative data 
• Assisting in writing a commentary on media coverage of FGM/C 
• Participating in collaborative activities with project partners 
• Analysis of qualitative data using NVivo software 

Research Assistant, ‘Preparedness, resilience, and urban vulnerability in Kibera and Kawangware’. 

University College Dublin and University of Nairobi (May 2018- June 2018) 

• Administering questionnaires, conducting in-depth interviews and managing focus group discussions 
• Transcription of data 

Research Assistant, ‘The effects of free maternity services on maternal mortality in Kenya’ Open Society 

Initiative for East Africa (September 2017-October 2017) 

• Conducting in-depth interviews and focus group discussion 
• Transcription of data 
• Analysing data and writing reports for external dissemination
• Report writing 

2020:   MA Development Anthropology, University of Nairobi 

                 Thesis: Community Participation in ward development funded project in Harambee Ward, Makadara        Sub-County. Graduated September 2020. 

2015:   BA (Honours) Anthropology: The University of Nairobi. Graduated December 2015