Dr. Romina de Jong
Director of Student Success
Dr Romina holds degrees in Social Work and Philosophy of Education (BA and MA, Radboud University), Educational Sciences (PhD, Leiden University), and Environmental Psychology (MSc, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences). Romina was a visiting scholar at Stanford University School of Education and is a Writing and Thinking Fellow of the Bard Center for Liberal Arts and Sciences Pedagogy.
In 2019 she relocated from Cambodia to Myanmar as technical lead of a nation-wide programme developing the new teacher education curriculum. In 2021 she joined Parami University. Her fields of expertise are Education in Non-Western contexts, Teacher Education, and Environmental Psychology in Western and Non-Western cultures, guided by the question: how do we move from knowing to caring, and from caring to responsibility?
After a short hiatus she returned to Parami in 2026 to establish the Office of Student Success — the university's first home for advising, learning support, and student wellbeing. Because when students study from the midst of crisis, care is not an add-on to education. It is the condition for learning and development.
"Play is, at bottom, growth, and at the top of the intellectual scale, the eternal type of research from sheer love of truth.’ – G. Stanley Hall. I believe that when we see learning as the playground of the mind, and share our curiosity, questions, thoughts and joy, true growth and creation emerge.”