The Senate meeting on 21 June 2012 agreed to the proposal to set up the Faculty for Social Wellbeing and recommended to Council that this new Faculty would be set up.
The Council meeting on 19 July 2012, agreed to the recommendation of Senate and approved that the 14th Faculty of the University of Malta be set up as the Faculty for Social Wellbeing.
"The Faculty community has developed and been founded on the principles of democracy, equity, inclusion and social justice. It is the fact that we kept our eye on the ball that has led us to become one of the largest faculties of the University of Malta with circa 1000 students, over 70 MPhil/PhD candidates, offering some 50 courses and an endless list of research, scholarship and publications. But not only. We are ever present in the community and have become a leading stakeholder in the social sector through our academic activism, contribution to policy and the provision of almost 60 research projects that will have provided for 1000 social policy proposals by next year. We have also provided for a substantial contribution to the body of knowledge in the area of social wellbeing studies. Our voyage continues and we will endeavour to be the voice that supports the voiceless and vulnerable people in our community. Our mission is that of remaining focused on the cause, no matter what." says Prof. Andrew Azzopardi, Dean of the Faculty for Social Wellbeing.
