Methods for Researching Global Challenges
An Interdisciplinary Guide
Mustafa F Ozbilgin editor Cihat Erbil editor Dimitria G Groutsis editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publishing:7th Oct '26
£155.00
This title is due to be published on 7th October, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
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- Paperback£49.99(9781041142263)
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.
‘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-François Chanlat, Université 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
‘Özbilgin, 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
ISBN: 9781041150787
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386 pages