Methods for Researching Global Challenges

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.

‘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

Mustafa F. Özbilgin 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 Hacı 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.