Collaborative Futures in Qualitative Inquiry critically reflects on and explores the role of qualitative research amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic. Against this unprecedented backdrop it asks what research means during a global pandemic and what it means to be an academic. Leading international scholars from the United States Canada Chile New Zealand Norway and the United Kingdom wrestle with the changing dynamics of research in pandemic times. Collectively and collaboratively contributors call for a critical performative social justice inquiry directed at the multiple crises of our historical present—a rethinking of where we have been and critically where we are going. More specifically contributors focus on such topics as: the emotional geographies of academic writing; assaults on science and truth; pedagogies of the imagination; indigenization and reconciliation; the search for our common humanity; and the relevance of qualitative inquiry in an era of big data and digital transformation. Collaborative Futures in Qualitative Inquiry is a must-read for faculty and students alike who are interested in imagining new ways to collaborate to engage in research and activism and represent and intervene into social life in pandemic times. | Collaborative Futures in Qualitative Inquiry Research in a Pandemic