Researching Asia in Pandemic Times – the Triple Crunch of Early Career Researchers: Navigating Changing Research Designs, Funding Issues and Ethics of Care

The following Current Debate section documents a fishbowl discussion held in a hybrid format during the Summer Term of 2022 as part of an MA class on "Digital Research Methods Beyond Pandemic Times," organised by Andrea Fleschenberg in collaboration with Muhammad Salman Khan. The conversation brings together early-career researchers – specifically, PhD students from the Institute of Asian and African Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin – who reflect on and discuss their concrete experiences, obstacles, challenges, and opportunities encountered while conducting PhD research during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe and Asia. These conversations, an integral part of the MA class, were designed as an interdisciplinary, interactive, and participatory learning and reflection space for exploring approaches to research methods and research ethics in online, hybrid, and offline contexts.