Prof. Karin Hannes specializes in the development of innovative research methods and models to respond to emerging social challenges, with a particular focus on arts-based, place-based, and multisensory research designs, as well as qualitative research evidence synthesis as a meta-review technique. Her job is to develop methods or test, evaluate, and improve existing ones for use in a different study context.  Her transdisciplinary research team SoMeTHin'K is active in the areas of urban development, citizen science, art/design and technology, social and behavioral sciences, public health, and the global sustainable development context. The group develops theoretical frameworks as a basis for understanding how complex phenomena should be approached and organized from an inclusive, critical, and multimodal research perspective. Prof. Hannes chairs the European Network of Qualitative Inquiry and partners KU Leuven's Institute for the Future and Urban Science Institute. She contributes extensively to theoretical discussions on the quality assessment of disruptive types of scholarly output as well as the role of qualitative and artistic research practices in an evidence-based discourse.