Christopher J Burman

Biographic Data

ID3917902
NAMEChristopher J Burman
GIVEN NAMESChristopher J
FAMILY NAMEBurman
SIGNATUREBURMAN C J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Limpopo
ORCID0000-0001-5861-2446
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX2

  • The Taming Wicked Problems Framework

    Open AccessChristopher J BurmanARTICLEThe Journal for Transdisciplinary…2018References: 49

    In 2014, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) published the Gap Report, which states that a new biosocial response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic is required to reinforce the biomedical strategy - Vision 90:90:90 - which is designed to end AIDS by 2030. This article provides a descriptive account of how a community-university partnership developed and piloted an innovative, transdisciplinary approach to HIV and AIDS management th…

  • An evaluation of the innovative potentials of a HIV pilot exploring medical pluralism in rural South Africa

    Open AccessChristopher J BurmanARTICLESAHARA-J Journal of Social…2018References: 34

    This article reflects on an internal evaluation undertaken to estimate the potentials of a community-university pilot project to be developed into a bonafide innovation that can be applied at scale. The focus of the community-university partnership has been to reduce the unintended consequences of medical pluralism on the HIV and AIDS epidemic in Waterberg district, Limpopo Province, South Africa. Despite promising outputs from the partnership - …

  • Analytic framework for assessing participation processes and outcomes of climate change adaptation tools

    Open AccessElvis Modikela Nkoana, Tom Waas et al.ARTICLEEnvironment Development and…2017

  • Leadership emergence

    Christopher J Burman, Marota AphaneARTICLEAfrican Journal of AIDS Research2016

    This article focuses on the utility of a knowledge management heuristic called the Cynefin framework, which was applied during an ongoing pilot intervention in the Limpopo province, South Africa. The intervention aimed to identify and then consolidate low-cost, innovative bio-social responses to reinforce the biomedical opportunities that now have the potential to "end AIDS by 2030′′. The Cynefin framework is designed to enable leaders to identif…

  • Knowledge as enablement

    Open AccessChristopher J Burman, Christopher Burman et al.ARTICLEEducational Research for Social…2016References: 5

    This article is prompted by a book called Knowledge as Enablement: Engagement Between Higher Education and the Third Sector in South Africa (Erasmus & Albertyn, 2014). Knowledge as Enablement emphasises that purposefully directed knowledge can contribute to the generation of mutually beneficial, transformative outcomes during community-university partnerships. The book introduces the notion of complexity but provides no specific examples about ho…

  • Weak signal detection

    Open AccessChristopher J Burman, Marota Aphane et al.ARTICLESAHARA-J Journal of Social…2016Cited by: 1References: 68

    INTRODUCTION: UNAIDS' Vision 90:90:90 is a call to 'end AIDS'. Developing predictive foresight of the unpredictable changes that this journey will entail could contribute to the ambition of 'ending AIDS'. There are few opportunities for managing unpredictable changes. We introduce 'weak signal detection' as a potential opportunity to fill this void. METHOD: Combining futures and complexity theory, we reflect on two pilot case studies that involve…

  • Reducing the overall HIV-burden in South Africa

    Open AccessChristopher J Burman, Marota Aphane et al.ARTICLEAfrican Journal of AIDS Research2015

    This article questions the recommendations to 'revive ABC (abstain, be faithful, condomise)' as a mechanism to 'educate' people in South Africa about HIV prevention as the South African National HIV Prevalence, Incidence and Behaviour Survey, 2012, suggests. We argue that ABC was designed as a response to a particular context which has now radically changed. In South Africa the contemporary context reflects the mass roll-out of antiretroviral tre…

  • The process of developing distributed-efficacy and social practice in the context of 'ending Aids

    Open AccessChristopher J Burman, Christopher Burman et al.ARTICLEThe Journal for Transdisciplinary…2015

    Introduction: this article reflects on data that emanated from a programme evaluation and focuses on a concept we label 'distributed-efficacy'. We argue that the process of developing and sustaining 'distributed-efficacy' is complex and indeterminate, thus difficult to manage or predict. We situate the discussion within the context of UNAIDS' recent strategy - Vision 95:95:95 - to 'end AIDS' by 2030 which the South African National Department of …

  • Expanding the prevention armamentarium portfolio

    Open AccessChristopher J Burman, Marota Aphane et al.ARTICLESAHARA-J Journal of Social…2015Cited by: 2References: 35

    The article describes a design journey that culminated in an HIV-Conversant Community Framework that is now being piloted in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. The objective of the initiative is to reduce the aggregate community viral load by building capacity at multiple scales that strengthens peoples' HIV-related navigational skill sets-while simultaneously opening a 'chronic situation' schema. The framework design is based upon a transdisc…

  • The South African developmental landscape

    Open AccessChristopher J Burman, Robert Mamabolo et al.ARTICLEThe Journal for Transdisciplinary…2013Cited by: 2

    This article argues that the South African developmental landscape is currently locked into an overly technical, path dependent paradigm that is unlikely to be capable of embracing the complex challenges identified by the recent National Development Plan. The article explores the internal logic of the existing path dependent, technical condition from the perspective of complexity, in the context of the Department of Science and Technology's Fifth…