Affiliation

Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Maseno University, Kenya

 

Address

Private Bag,
Maseno,
Kenya

 

Contact

eonyambedha@yahoo.co.uk

 

Biosketch

Mr. Nyambedha received his BA and MA in Anthropology from the University of Nairobi, Kenya, and is currently conducting his PhD research at the department of anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

 

Key research/capacity building interests

 

Research Interests

• The impact of HIV/AIDS on older people and the ageing process
• The impact of HIV/AIDS on children
• HIV/AIDS and social change in developing countries

Capacity Building Interests

• Lecturing and supervision of university students
• Training in research ethics

Key methodological skills

• Qualitative methods: longitudinal qualitative research, key informant interviews, narratives, life-stories and in-depth interviews
• Quantitative methods: baseline surveys

Current/planned research

• The impact of HIV/AIDS on grandmotherhood in Western Kenya
• Children of daughters in the context of the HIV/AIDS pandemic among the Luo in Western Kenya

Engagement in capacity building

Lecturing in anthropology