Dr. Jose Jowel Canuda

Director, Tagpuan Center for Dialogue, Research and Collaboration

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology​

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Over the last decade, calls for advancing high-impact social research through methodological innovation permeated the social science enterprise, amid rapidly transforming digital technologies and shared global crises (Jewett et al. 2017). The challenge to innovate, and the debates surrounding it, have risen more acutely in the advent and aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic. Such events brought technology-mediated research engagement to the forefront of social investigation, while simultaneously raising questions on how methods can connect and mobilize persons within the grounded and embodied context of the real world. Would art, play, and data-gathering techniques that move beyond the demonstrative yet colonizing conventions of the scientific method still aid social sciences in producing knowledge with real-world ramifications, and how so (cf. Alatas 2025)?

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References

Alatas, Syed Farid (2025) The decolonization of research: structures of inquiry and theory, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 28:6, 759-776, DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2025.2569262

Jewitt, Carey, Anna Xambo & Sara Price (2017) Exploring methodological innovation in the social sciences: the body in digital environments and the arts, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 20:1, 105-120, DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2015.1129143