Methods Net
Trinity Business School researchers have a track record of cutting-edge methodological scholarship and methodological innovations. Our researchers are active in publishing scholarly books and journal articles on research methods, running workshops and research methods training, writing textbooks and special issues, and sitting on the editorial boards of leading methods journals. The School has in-house expertise in a wide range of both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, including
- action research,
- case study research,
- interdisciplinary research approaches,
- structural equation modeling, and
- econometric and statistical methods.
Our Team
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Gorkem Aksaray
Assistant Professor
Dr. Gorkem Aksaray's research is rooted in applied quantitative methods, with expertise in econometric techniques such as panel data analysis and causal inference. He has also significantly contributed to reproducible research by publishing several widely used Stata programs and a comprehensive LaTeX template for the Academy of Management. He is dedicated to advancing methodological education through teaching advanced quantitative methods and statistical tools to the doctoral community.
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David Coghlan
Professor Emeritus
Professor Emeritus David Coghlan has been specialising in action-oriented and collaborative research methodologies and methods in the School for over thirty years. He created and pioneered the theory and practice of insider action research. His contributions to action research have received many distinguished awards from the Academy of Management. His current focus is on how interiority enables collaborative and transdisciplinary inquiry.
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Paul Coughlan
Professor
Professor Paul Coughlan has collaborated with Professor David Coghlan for many years, publishing seminal work on the usefulness and usability of action research in operations and supply chain management. Together, they created also the notion of action learning research and have published numerous empirical and methodological articles arising out of EU funded research projects enabled by action learning.
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Nicholas Danks
Associate Professor
Dr. Nicholas Danks conducts work at the intersection of explanatory causal modeling and computation driven theory development. In particular, Dr. Danks has made significant contributions to Structural Equation Modeling where he has published in Management Science and Human Resource Management Journals along with a textbook which has attracted nearly 60,000 citations.
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Kisito Futonge Nzembayie
Assistant Professor
Dr. Kisito F. Nzembayie employs a pluralistic action research (AR) approach to study digital entrepreneurship. He has published on using AR as an enactive methodology for studying entrepreneurship as a design process. Integrating participant observation, intervention, digital ethnography, archival research, and digital trace data analysis, his engaged scholarship approach bridges academic rigor with relevance.
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Catherine Welch
Professor, Director of Research
Professor Catherine Welch is an expert on qualitative research methodologies in management and international business research. She has published extensively on different aspects of qualitative research, particularly case studies and approaches to contextualisation. She is currently writing about qualitative restudy designs and on qualitative data analysis in the era of AI. She is an associate editor of Organizational Research Methods.