In 2020, Calcutta Research Group organised a two-day Teachers’ Workshop on “Research Methodology and Syllabus Making in Migration and Forced Migration Studies”. Lydia Potts, Saima Farhad, Sandro Mezzadra and Giorgio Grappi and Ayse Caglar participated online in a roundtable titled “Innovative Methods of Research” that discussed, as the title clearly indicates, was a discussion centred around the relatively new thematic approaches to migration studies for researchers and faculty. The discussion was moderated by Lydia Potts while Saima Farhad responded to the panellists. The article is a transcript of the discussion, edited only for grammar, otherwise, unchanged.