Environment Liveability and Wellbeing in Malta
The Faculty for Social Wellbeing is collaborating with the Ministry for the Environment, Climate Change and Planning to conduct a study examining the relationship between the environmental dimension and the wellbeing of our communities at individual as well as at policy level. The National Strategy for the Environment for 2050, that was released by the Ministry for the Environment, Climate Change and Planning in June 2020, placed strong emphasis on the wellbeing aspect of the environment, recognising that environmental, social and economic wellbeing go hand in hand.
This research study will examine the wellbeing repercussion of environmental issues at the micro and macro levels. The research aims to gain perspective of the current state of these interactions, as well as identifying gaps and areas where resources and energies could be focused, to improve the link between environment and wellbeing at all levels, for the benefit of our communities.
Protecting our Children: Exploring and Preventing Child Abuse
The Faculty for Social Wellbeing has been commissioned by the Bank of Valletta to conduct a research study aimed at examining patterns and causes of child abuse with a view to protecting our children and preventing this kind of abuse against the most vulnerable in our society. Deliberate acts of maltreatment or neglect of children are horrific and affect not just the child, and the adult that the child grows into; but also reverberate in society at large. The complexities of the issue and the effects on our society will be studied and examined through the lens of empirical data, so that lacunae in this area can be filled and the phenomenon understood and confronted.
This study will explore how children become subject to mistreatment, how convicted child abusers are rehabilitated, if at all, and what treatment the latter are given or require. The study will also examine the prevalence of abuse of children, and explore how our children can be kept safe, including actions that can be taken to keep children safe online.
