29

Mar

Suffering in Silence: Loneliness in Maltese Society

by Jamie Bonnici Research Support Officer, faculty for Social Wellbeing When the research team at the Faculty for Social Wellbeing, with whom I work began delving into research about loneliness,…

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25

Mar

Coronavirus: Let it not stop us!

by Prof. Andrew Azzopardi Dean, Faculty for Social Wellbeing, University of Malta   The term resilience was originally an engineering term referring to the ability of a material or object…

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08

Mar

We’re in it together (Societal Well Being – UOM – CI)

The Faculty for Social Wellbeing has embarked on a new initiative, in collaboration  with the Corporate ID Group's Corporate Dispatch, of publishing our first ever Faculty Research Magazine, in the Societas.Expert…

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08

Mar

Homelessness (Social Wellbeing UOM)

by Ann Marie Cutajar, Research Officer, Faculty for Social Wellbeing Introduction Defining ‘homelessness’ and the ‘homeless person’ might not be the most straightforward task. The definition of homelessness varies according to the…

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08

Mar

Loneliness – A Modern Epidemic (Social Wellbeing UOM) – Dr Natalie Kenely

  by Dr. Natalie Kenely, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, Faculty for Social Wellbeing   Introduction Most of us know it, are acquainted with it. At some point…

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08

Mar

Housing in Malta: The Cultural Goals VS. Institutionalised Means Conundrum (Social Wellbeing UOM)

  by Dr. Maria Brown, Visiting Senior Lecturer, Faculty for Social Wellbeing Introduction The current housing situation in Malta needs to be contextualised in a mainstreamed culture where home ownership is…

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08

Mar

On Mental Health and Homelessness (Social Wellbeing UOM)

  by Dr. Paulann Grech, Department of Mental Health, Faculty of Health Sciences Introduction It has often been described as the island of ‘sun and blue skies’. So it is, with our…

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08

Mar

Community People in general are social ‘animals’ so they tend to congregate in groups, communities (Social Wellbeing UOM)

  by Dr. JosAnn Cutajar, Department of Gender Studies, Faculty for Social Wellbeing   Definition of Community A community consists of a group of individuals or families that share certain…

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08

Mar

Researching Loneliness: The Relevance of Mixed-Methods Approaches (Social Wellbeing UOM)

by Jamie Bonnici, Research Officer, Faculty for Social Wellbeing Introduction The Faculty for Social Wellbeing recently embarked on a number of initiatives to explore the phenomenon of loneliness in Malta.…

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08

Mar

Dialogue & Conflict (Social Wellbeing UOM)

  by Prof. Gordon Sammut, Department of Psychology, Faculty for Social Wellbeing Introduction The human condition has been marked by intra-species conflict since the dawn of time. To ensure evolutionary…

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08

Mar

Service Delivery (Social Wellbeing UOM)

  by Dr. Patricia Bonello, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, Faculty for Social Wellbeing   Introduction   Service delivery is a major feature of the social sector which…

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08

Mar

Raising the Threshold: Towards the Professionalisation of Residential Child Caregivers (Social Wellbeing UOM)

  by Dr. Marian Muscat Azzopardi, Visiting Lecturer, Faculty for Social Wellbeing Introduction This paper focuses on an essential lacuna in the social welfare provisions that address the wellbeing of children taken…

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