Family conversations research
This experimental approach, working with 18 diverse families in each of our study settings, has at its heart a simple idea.
In previous research many people had told us that it is rare in the majority of families for people to spend meaningful time together discussing what is going on in everyone’s lives.
We therefore decided to seek volunteers who would agree to come together as a family group, once a month for eighteen months in both Kenya and Uganda.
The project provides the means to prepare a good dinner and the family consent to sit together over their food for an hour or two, talking about their lives and communities.
The conversation is audio recorded, and subsequently, after anonymisation, translated and transcribed.