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 |fields=Sociology; Education<br>Eco-systemic knowing-and-living
 |universities=University of Cape Town<br>University of South Africa<br>University of Eswatini<br>University of Hull<br>European University of Cyprus
-|specializations=responsible research practice<br>transformative research<br>an Indigenous systemic  approach to knowing-and-being
+|specializations=Responsible research practice<br>Transformative research<br>An Indigenous systemic approach to knowing-and-being
 |orcid=https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1722-9720
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-'''Norma Romm''' joined ISSS in 1966. Norma is a South African [[Critical Systems Thinking| critical systems thinker]] interested in [[Transformative Research|Transformative Research and links with Indigenous onto-epistemology]]. She is a (retired) professor at the Department of Adult, Community, and Continuing Education at the University of South Africa. Norma was previously Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Swaziland<ref>https://www.socresonline.org.uk/2/3/romm.html</ref>; Deputy director of the Centre for Systems Studies, at the University of Hull<ref>https://www.socresonline.org.uk/2/3/romm.html</ref>; and Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities at the European University of Cyprus. (See her ORCID page for details.)
+'''Norma Romm''' joined ISSS in 1966. Norma is a South African [[Critical Systems Thinking| critical systems thinker]] interested in [[Transformative Research|Transformative Research and links with Indigenous onto-epistemology]]. She is a Professor Extraordinarius (Emeritus) in the Department of Adult, Community, and Continuing Education at the University of South Africa. Norma was previously Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Eswatini; Deputy director of the Centre for Systems Studies, at the University of Hull; and Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities at the European University Cyprus. (See her ORCID page for details.)
 ==Personal Life==
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 ==Academia and Career==
-See my ORCID site https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1722-9720
+See ORCID site https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1722-9720
 ==Notable Awards==
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 * 1996 (Ed.): ''Critical Systems Thinking: Current Research and Practice'' (co-edited with Robert Flood). Plenum.
 * 1994 (Ed.): ''Social Theory'' (co-edited with Michael Sarakinsky). Heinemann.
-* SOME NOTABLE ARTICLES (in reverse chronological order; please see selected publications for selected additional works):
-* 2023. Reflections on the value of mixed focus groups with adult learner research participants: Exploring gender disparities and gendered relationships (co-authored with X. Tawana). ''Participatory Educational Research'', '''10, 1:''' 290-309.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366918940_Reflections_on_the_Value_of_Mixed_Focus_Groups_with_Adult_Learner_Research_Participants_Exploring_Gender_Disparities_and_Gendered_Relationships
+ '''SOME NOTABLE ARTICLES''' (in reverse chronological order; please see selected publications for selected additional works):
+* 2025. Facilitation of focus groups towards conflict resolution among pastoralists and farmers in Northern Uganda: An Indigenous relational approach (co-authored with F.A. Adyanga and D. Toolit). ''The Qualitative Report". '''30, 8:''' 4078-4105. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2025.7619
+* 2023. Reflections on the value of mixed focus groups with adult learner research participants: Exploring gender disparities and gendered relationships (co-authored with X. Tawana). ''Participatory Educational Research'', '''10, 1:''' 290-309. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366918940_Reflections_on_the_Value_of_Mixed_Focus_Groups_with_Adult_Learner_Research_Participants_Exploring_Gender_Disparities_and_Gendered_Relationships
 *2023: Towards eco-systemic living: Learning with Indigenous leaders in Africa and Indonesia through a community of practice (co-authored with J. J. McIntyre-Mills, P. V. Lethole, M. Makaulule, R. Wirawan & I. Widianingsih). ''Systems Research and Behavioral Science'' '''40, 5''': 779-786. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sres.2976?af=R
 *2022: [[Jabsc/article/view/4930|Action research as a hopeful response to apocalypse: A review of Bradbury, H. (2022). How to do Action Research for Transformations at a Time of Eco-social Crisis. Edward Elgar.]] ''Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change'', '''2, 2''': 141-148.
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 *2022: Structured dialogical design as a problem structuring method illustrated in a Re-invent democracy project (co-authored with Y. Laouris). ''European Journal of Operational Research'', '''301, 3''': 1072-1087.
 * 2020: Eliciting children’s/young people’s (group) engagement with scenarios as participatory research practice for exploring and extending responses to climate change. ''Participatory Educational Research'', 7, 1: i-xiv. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339609077_Eliciting_Children'sYoung_People's_Group_Engagement_with_Scenarios_as_Participatory_Research_Practice_for_Exploring_and_Extending_Responses_to_Climate_Change
 ==Video Presentations==
 * https://cdpd.fisip.unpad.ac.id/webinar-series-metodologi-riset-seri-3-mixed-methods-research-from-a-transformative-poin-of-view/ (July 2020)
-* 2023 (October). Invited by the Taos Institute to co-prepare a video for the 30th anniversary of the Institute (one of 30 videos for the celebration). The recording (in conversation with Francis Adyanga) is called “Indigenous views of relationality from Africa” and is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMiiA9q9YMI
+* 2026 (February). Invited by the ISSS to present in the mini-symposia series (2025-2026). My presentation was entitled “The importance of recognizing the systemic thinking of Indigenous sages and scholars”.
-* 2022 (November). Invited to speak in a panel discussion in a session entitled “research in multiple worlds” at a conference organised by the Taos Institute around the theme of Unfolding Dialogues: Relational Resources for Global Good (12-18 November 2022). The event’s recording is available at: https://youtu.be/irgoSfJ0U8E
+* 2023 (October). Invited by the Taos Institute to co-prepare a video for the 30th anniversary of the Institute (one of 30 videos for the celebration). The recording (in conversation with Francis Adyanga) is called “Indigenous views of relationality from Africa”.
+* 2022 (November). Invited to speak in a panel discussion in a session entitled “research in multiple worlds” at a conference organised by the Taos Institute around the theme of Unfolding Dialogues: Relational Resources for Global Good (12-18 November 2022).
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 ==Selected Publications==
+*2025: Indigenous ways of worlding as systemic understanding of human and more-than-human influence in generating worlds in becoming. ''Journal of the International Society for the Systems Sciences'': Proceedings of the 68th Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (held in 2024). Article site: https://journals.isss.org/index.php/jisss/article/view/4192
+*2025: Responsibility to heed the call through a community of practice: The influence of indigenous wisdom (co-authored with M. Makaulule, P. Lethole, V. Netshandama, B. Mabunda, E. Pitsoane and J. McIntyre-Mills). ''Journal of the International Society for the Systems Sciences'': Proceedings of the 68th Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (held in 2024). Article site: https://journals.isss.org/index.php/jisss/article/view/4202/1271
+*2025: Harvesting Indigenous onto-epistemologies for contributing to a more balanced and sustainable future: Exploring options for performing better worlds, in H''arnessing Indigenous Epistemologies for Sustainable Progress'', 51-72, edited by P. Ngulube.  IGI Global.
+*2024: Metalogue on constructivism and why thinking matters (with J. J. McIntyre-Mills, A. Rayner, D. Finlayson, and R. Treviño-Cisneros), in A''ffirmative Intervention to Support Multispecies Relationships'', 371-386, edited by J. J. McIntyre-Mills.  Springer.
+*2024: Exploring lessons on re-generative living with a community of practice in South Africa and Indonesia (with J. J. McIntyre-Mills, P. V. Lethole, M. Makaulule, R. Wirawan, and I. Widianingsih, in ''Affirmative Intervention to Support Multispecies Relationships'', 441-474, edited by J. J. McIntyre-Mills.  Springer.
+*2024: Re-generating local, regional and international leadership through community engagement on earning, learning and growing a future (with J. J. McIntyre-Mills, M. Makaulule, Y. Laouris, P. V. Lethole, K. Dye, H. Mahareeq, F. Younis, T. Makhlouf, I. Solomou, G. Mabezere, V. Netshandama, R. Riswanda, and I. Widianingsih), in ''Affirmative Intervention to Support Multispecies Relationships'', 475-494, edited by J. J. McIntyre-Mills. Springer.
+*2024: An Indigenous relational approach to systemic thinking and being: Focus on participatory onto-epistemology. ''Systemic Practice and Action Research''. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11213-024-09672-4.pdf
 *2023: Indigenous interventions, sociological understandings of inequalities and Covid-19, in ''Critically Diverse Perspectives on Covid-19: Interviews with a Varied Range of South Africans'', 70-81, edited by S. Dey and S. Chattopadhyay.  UNISA Press & National Institute for the Humanities & Social Sciences.
 *2022: Redesigning education for regeneration and well-being: Exploring the potential of digital engagement in the COVID-19 context (co-authored with J. McIntyre-Mills, P.V. Lethole, M. Makaulule, and R. Wirawan), in ''Covid-19: Perspectives Across Africa'', 264-314, edited by A. Fymat, N.R.A. Romm and J. Kapalanga. Tellwell. (This book emanated from the virtual annual conference of the Society for the Advancement of Science in Africa (SASA), 2020/2021.)
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 ==Links to relevant pages==
+https://www.taosinstitute.net/about-us/people/institute-associates/africa-north-africa-middle-east/norma-romm
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