This IQAS issue explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on research practices, focusing on the challenges researchers from across Asia and Europe with diverse (inter-)disciplinary angles and positionalities faced while adapting to digitally-mediated research methods. It highlights how the pandemic accelerated the shift to online research, prompting changes in data collection, researcher positionality, and engagement with marginalized groups. The articles document negotiations, discussions and choices that they made in unplanned situations. The issue discusses, through a collaborative exchange, the methodological, ethical, and personal issues that arose in fieldwork, emphasizing the need for updated skills and research designs in the digital era. The reflections presented do not offer fixed solutions but contribute to an evolving discourse on conducting research in a rapidly changing, connected world.
Selected articles
Navigating the Disrupted Field: Researching Education in Indonesia during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Mutmainna Syam and Dissa Paputungan-Engelhardt