All young people in Malta should have a gap year at 18 years to do community work - Dr Ruth Falzon

Abstract

Dr Ruth Falzon is a Senior Lecturer within the Department of Counselling in the Faculty for Social Wellbeing. Her areas of expertise and research interest include Personal and Social Development and Specific Learning Difficulties focusing in particular on how emotional literacy, transversal/soft skills, performance auto/ethnography and counselling affects the quality of life of persons with dyslexia in the short and long term. She is highly involved in the community and I believe she is one of the many academics whom I consider to be a public intellectual, values scholarship but at the same time is grounded and keen to take knowledge back into the community. Ruth is one academic who stands her ground when it comes to values and principles and I can see very little compromise on this matter.