Methods for Researching Global Challenges
An Interdisciplinary Guide
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 30. September 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
386 pages
978-1-041-14226-3 (ISBN)
Description
Methods for Researching Global Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Guide is a practical and forward-thinking guide to the transdisciplinary research methods best suited for studying complex, high-stakes global issues, from climate change and inequality to digital governance and pandemics.
Bridging disciplines and traditions, this essential volume equips researchers, policymakers, and practitioners with innovative, ethically engaged approaches for real-world inquiry into the conditions shaping today's interconnected world. Organized around both methodological perspectives and global challenge domains, the book features participatory, decolonial, digital, and transdisciplinary approaches that respond to the growing inadequacy of conventional research methods for addressing systemic, border-transcending problems. Chapters cover diverse topics including action-oriented methods, cross-national surveys, digital ethnography, big data analytics, scenario planning, and Indigenous research strategies, demonstrating how method and ethics are inseparable-especially when working in volatile or contested environments.
This volume responds to the growing inadequacy of conventional research approaches to addressing systemic and border-transcending global problems. It offers methodological developments tailored to contemporary global challenges. It provides practical resources for scholars and practitioners navigating uncertainty, injustice, and rapid change, serving those who seek not only to understand but to influence the complex systems and power dynamics that define our era.
Chapter 7 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
Bridging disciplines and traditions, this essential volume equips researchers, policymakers, and practitioners with innovative, ethically engaged approaches for real-world inquiry into the conditions shaping today's interconnected world. Organized around both methodological perspectives and global challenge domains, the book features participatory, decolonial, digital, and transdisciplinary approaches that respond to the growing inadequacy of conventional research methods for addressing systemic, border-transcending problems. Chapters cover diverse topics including action-oriented methods, cross-national surveys, digital ethnography, big data analytics, scenario planning, and Indigenous research strategies, demonstrating how method and ethics are inseparable-especially when working in volatile or contested environments.
This volume responds to the growing inadequacy of conventional research approaches to addressing systemic and border-transcending global problems. It offers methodological developments tailored to contemporary global challenges. It provides practical resources for scholars and practitioners navigating uncertainty, injustice, and rapid change, serving those who seek not only to understand but to influence the complex systems and power dynamics that define our era.
Chapter 7 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
Reviews / Votes
'This book offers a powerful and timely rethinking of research methods, demonstrating how scholars can meaningfully engage with the complexity, inequality, and urgency of global challenges through innovative, reflexive, participatory, and ethically grounded approaches. The book's rich interdisciplinary perspectives and commitment to epistemic plurality and relational ontology make it an indispensable guide for researchers seeking to produce impactful and socially responsible knowledge that addresses the intricate human stakes of our time.'Professor Eddy Ng, Queen's University
'This edited book on Methods for Researching Global Challenges is a wounderful interdisciplanary guide in which method is viewed as a political and moral instrument. Advocating strongly for a pluralistic epistemology, it proposes an ecology of methods, where organizational methodological choices are situated within configurations of power, scale, space and temporality. It comes at just the right time, at a moment when the world, beyond its divisions, has to rediscover the importance of its diversity in order to better understand it.'
Professor Jean-Francois Chanlat, Universite Paris-Dauphine PSL
'Methods for Researching Global Challenges is a timely and important contribution that recognizes a central challenge of our era: The polycrisis we face cannot be adequately understood through inherited methodological approaches alone. By rethinking how research is designed, conducted, and shared, this volume offers innovative and reflexive methodological tools for any scholar serious about studying global challenges without reproducing the very injustices they seek to understand.'
Professor Lena Knappert, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
'OEzbilgin, Erbil, and Groutsis have assembled an important collection that treats method as a moral and political instrument, not merely a technical one. Essential reading for researchers who take seriously the relationship between methodology, power, and global responsibility.'
Professor Trisha Greenhalgh, University of Oxford
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate Advanced
Illustrations
23 s/w Zeichnungen, 30 s/w Tabellen, 23 s/w Abbildungen
30 Tables, black and white; 23 Line drawings, black and white; 23 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-041-14226-3 (9781041142263)
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Additional editions
Mustafa F. OEzbilgin | Cihat Erbil | Dimitria G. Groutsis
Methods for Researching Global Challenges
An Interdisciplinary Guide
Book
approx. 09/2026
1st Edition
Routledge
€191.50
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Persons
Mustafa F. OEzbilgin is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Brunel Business School, London, examining workplace equality, diversity, and inclusion from comparative and relational perspectives.
Cihat Erbil is an Associate Professor at Ankara Haci Bayram Veli University, examining power, inclusion, marginalisation, and resistance in organisations through Critical Management Studies.
Dimitria G. Groutsis is Professor of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the University of Sydney Business School. She is a leading scholar in migration, labour mobility, and ethno-racial diversity, bridging research and practice through impactful publications, major research funding, and partnerships across industry, government, and global organisations.
Cihat Erbil is an Associate Professor at Ankara Haci Bayram Veli University, examining power, inclusion, marginalisation, and resistance in organisations through Critical Management Studies.
Dimitria G. Groutsis is Professor of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the University of Sydney Business School. She is a leading scholar in migration, labour mobility, and ethno-racial diversity, bridging research and practice through impactful publications, major research funding, and partnerships across industry, government, and global organisations.
Content
About the Editors Notes on the Contributors Section I: Introducing Research Methods for Global Challenges 1. Introduction 2. Research Methods for Global Challenges Section II: Decolonial, Participatory, and Reflexive Methodologies 3. Decolonial and Participatory Research Approaches in Education and Knowledge Access: Methodological Innovations for a Just Future, by Ashraf Alam (Alliance University, Bengaluru) 4. Decolonial and Participatory Methods for Researching Global Challenges, by Shikha Vasishta (Bennett University) 5. Methodological Innovation through Indigenous Approaches, by Kurt April (University of Cape Town) 6. Writing as Relational and Political Method, by Rafia Faiz (University Canada West) 7. Robots Do Not Arrive Empty-Handed: Reflexive Approaches to Technology Research, by Selcen Ozturkcan (Linnaeus University) Section III: Innovative and Creative Methodological Approaches 8. Digital Ethnography of Workers' Inquiry: Methods for Researching Platform Labor in Digital Capitalism, by Arif Novianto (Universitas Tidar) 9. Digital Drift Ethnography: Following Meaning in Motion, by Deniz Tuncalp (Istanbul Technical University) 10. Words Get in the Way: Arts-Based Methodology, by Anita Louise Wheeldon (University of Southern Queensland) 11. Foresight, Value Systems, and Planetarity: Using Futures Methods, by Matt Finch and Sebastian Seidel (University of Oxford; Hertie School) 12. Listening Across Borders: Oral History as a Method, by Parul Srivastava (University of Hyderabad) 13. Tracing Home Together through Oral History and Narrative Methods, by Samar Sabie (University of Toronto) Section IV: Researching Inequality, Mobility, and Lived Experience 14. A Hybrid Participatory Action Research Methodology, by David Mapuru, Buriata Eti-Tofinga, Jone Lako, Maureen Karan, Anica Mapuru (University of the South Pacific) 15. Refining the Methodological Rhythm in Migration Research, by Gayani Gunasekera and Mario Fernando (University of Sydney; University of Wollongong) 16. Researching gendered skilled migration as a global challenge: A postcolonial feminist methodological approach, by Sreenita Mukherjee (Queen Mary University of London) 17. Conducting Applied Research with Parents of Children, by UEzeyir Emre Kiyak (Usak University) 18. Multilevel Designs for Addressing Global Challenges, by Rifat Kamasak (Henley Business School, University of Reading) Section V: Methodologies for Institutional Accountability, Policy, and Evidence 19. Researching Climate Adaptation Equity: Methodological Approaches, by Cigdem Tugac and Cihat Erbil (Ankara Haci Bayram Veli University) 20. Walking the Biodiversity Talk: Content Analysis and Geospatial Technology Approaches, by Iva Mihaylova and Andreas Blumer (University of St. Gallen) 21. Design Science for Community-Driven Industrial Solutions, by Muhammad Rosyihan Hendrawan, Aniesa Samira Bafadhal, Eric Budi Maulana (Universitas Brawijaya) 22. Beyond the Surface: Harnessing Meta-Analytic Synthesis, by Zeynep Kaptan and Bora Yildiz (Istanbul University) 23. Evaluating Gender Equality Plans: A Realist, Multi-Method Approach, by Nur Gundogdu and Mustafa F. OEzbilgin (University of Birmingham; Brunel University of London) Index