This document outlines key issues in advanced research methodology. It begins with an introduction noting how current issues are impacting research methods. It then categorizes the main issues into contemporary aspects, purposes, methodologies, and ethics. For methodologies, it lists digital qualitative methods, online interviews/focus groups, applied anthropology/ethnography, and complexity theory. The ethical issues section emphasizes honesty/integrity, objectivity, carefulness, openness, confidentiality, respect for intellectual property, and legality. It concludes that ethics, purpose, and methodology are central to research.