Unity, Faculty for Social Wellbeing newspaper, out with MaltaToday on Sunday

Unity marks its third issue as a newspaper in its collaboration with the MaltaToday newsroom, out on Sunday 24 March with MaltaToday’s print edition.

Packed with contributions from the Faculty for Social Wellbeing’s heads of department, teaching staff and Ph.D. candidates, Unity provides a snapshot of key social problems that Malta is currently facing with following the various turning points and transitions experienced during the past decade.

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“Reflecting on the submitted and published articles in this edition, one can never overemphasise the wide repertoire of interests that characterises the Faculty for Social Wellbeing,” says editor Prof. Marvin Formosa.

“The Faculty promotes research on contemporary issues of family life, with particular emphasis on the promotion of resilience in family members, whilst also striving to educate and equip future counsellors with the necessary skills and capacities to become excellent and virtuous professionals in a variety of social and cultural settings.”

Contributions this year span the entire gamut of Faculty arenas: social work and social policy, childhood traumas and youth studies, criminology and psychology, elderly care, and LGBTQI issues in all aspects of life.

“The Faculty is established in the national and international arenas as an arena of criminological research focusing its efforts in fields as diverse as policing, corrections, and spatio-temporal crime statistics. Gender and sexualities are also at the forefront of the Faculty’s interests, as are youth, community studies, ageing and dementia studies which contributes much to our understanding of the human life course. Psychology research and training of students in the scientific understanding of human behaviour and relationships, and mental health are paramount,” Prof. Formosa says.

Last but certainly not least, the Faculty’s social policy and social work education offers vibrant, exciting, demanding and relevant courses for both younger and mature students.

More information on the Faculty for Social Wellbeing, University of Malta here