Methodology to Address Grand Challenges

Edited by Bareerah Hafeez Hoorani and Etiënne Rouwette

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Abstract: This book explores how diverse methodologies are, and can be, applied to tackle grand challenges. Contributing authors promote both inward and outward introspection of existing assumptions, values and systems, emphasising the importance of complexifying, bridging theory and practice, engaging with the future and embracing alternative ways of knowing.

Keywords: Grand Challenges; Methodologies; Intervention; Qualitative; Quantitative; Practice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035314300
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Moving towards an idealistic stance to address grand challenges

Bareerah Hafeez Hoorani and Etiënne Rouwette

Ch 2 Keeping it complex: advancing sustainability research through complexity-based integrative reviews

Cem Gürsan, Sara Gonella, Vincent de Gooyert and Ke Zhou

Ch 3 Inclusive education as a grand challenge: contributions of the social norm theory

Jana Vyrastekova and Annemiek Schilpzand

Ch 4 Evaluating social innovation for grand challenges through qualitative comparative analysis: the case of youth labour integration in Barrio 31, Argentina

Priscilla Alamos-Concha and Benoît Rihoux

Ch 5 Integrating machine learning and system dynamics

Hesham Mahmoud, Hubert Korzilius, Marcel Olde Rikkert, Susan Howick, Etiënne Rouwette and William Schoenberg

Ch 6 Action research on the challenge of inequality in organizations: participatory modeling on harassment in academia

Inge Bleijenbergh, Monic Lansu and Franziska Saxler

Ch 7 Challenges in planning for a transition towards a sustainable transport system

Peraphan Jittrapirom, Vincent Marchau, Ruben Akse, Rob van der Heijden and Yuko Onishi

Ch 8 Participatory Game Theory interventions to support multi-actor decision-making on grand challenges: a case study of the Dutch dairy sector

Femke Bekius, Alice H. Aubert and Lara Koopman

Ch 9 Context and conversation: a topology of interviews inspired by grand challenge fieldwork

Paolo Franco, Bareerah Hafeez Hoorani and Ai Ming Chow

Ch 10 Staying with the trouble: unpacking methodological challenges for studying insider activists and taking a stance

Kristina Lauche, Julia Borgers, Caroline Maessen and Ann Langley

Ch 11 Painting knowledge and writing art: the methodological challenge of co-creation, acknowledgement, and epistemic justice in ethnographic research

Catherina Wilson and Sapin Makengele

Ch 12 Adopting the idealistic stance for addressing grand challenges: grounding and stretching

Etiënne Rouwette and Bareerah Hafeez Hoorani

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