Norma Romm is a South African critical systems thinker interested in

transformative research Transformative research is a term that became increasingly common within the science policy community in the 2000s for research that shifts or breaks existing scientific paradigms. The idea has its provenance in Thomas Kuhn's notion of scientific ...

. She is a professor at the Department of Adult, Community, and Continuing Education at the

University of South Africa The University of South Africa (UNISA), known colloquially as Unisa, is the largest university system in South Africa by enrollment. It attracts a third of all higher education students in South Africa. Through various colleges and affiliates, U ...

. She was previously Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences,

University of Swaziland The University of Eswatini (or UNESWA; formerly known as the University of Swaziland, or UNISWA) is the national university of Eswatini. It was established by act of parliament in 1982. The university developed from the University of Botswana, ...

and deputy director of the Centre for Systems Studies, at the

University of Hull The University of Hull is a public research university in Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1927 as University College Hull. The main university campus is located in Hull and is home to the Hull ...

Works

* ''The Methodologies of Positivism and Marxism'' (1991) London: Macmillan * ''Accountability in Social Research'' (2001) Springer * ''New Racism: Revisiting Researcher Accountabilities'' (2010) Springer * ''Responsible Research Practice: Revisiting Transformative Paradigm in Social Research'' (2018) Springer

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Romm, Norma Living people Academic staff of the University of South Africa Year of birth missing (living people)

University of Eswatini The University of Eswatini (or UNESWA; formerly known as the University of Swaziland, or UNISWA) is the national university of Eswatini. It was established by act of parliament in 1982. The university developed from the University of Botswana, ...

Academics of the University of Hull