Methods for Researching Global Challenges

An Interdisciplinary Guide
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-15078-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 414 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

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. Organised around both methodological perspectives and global challenge domains, this 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 also 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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Özbilgin, Mustafa F.

Erbil, Cihat

Groutsis, Dimitria G.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Wohnen & Obdachlosigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Tunçalp (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 Üzeyir 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 Çigdem Tugaç 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. Özbilgin (University of Birmingham; Brunel University of London)  Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mustafa F. Özbilgin is a Professor of Organisational Behaviour in 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 a 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.