Alice Menya on Action Research and Urban Resilience in East Africa

Charity is talking to Alice Menya.

And Alice Menya is the Urban Program Coordinator at Nuvoni center, which is an independent research organization based in Nairobi, Kenya, that works together closely with local universities, but also international ones, including in the Netherlands.

Alice is currently a doctoral candidate at the Ardhi University in Dar es Salaam, focusing on planning and governance of resilient cities in East Africa.

She gives us insight into a joint master's program that she's a part of, which brings together Kenyan and Dutch students and explains a lot of the intricacies of what makes it so rewarding, but also difficult to set up internationally collaborative education.

But she also explores interesting and exciting new research approaches, including researching children as a demographic and analyzing people's diaries.