Vickie Gauci, Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Disability Studies in the Faculty for Social Wellbeing, has been awarded the Premju SoÄ‹jetÃ Ä usta (Fair Society Award) by the Parliamentary Secretariat for Disabled Persons and Active Ageing.
The reward was given to Ms Gauci in recognition of her contribution to creating a more inclusive society in Malta, among others her instrumental role in establishing and developing the Sonia Tanti Independent Living Centre and, subsequently also in the setting up and development of the Department of Disability Studies itself.
In her work, Ms Gauci also uses her experience as a disabled person to be of service to others, to raise awareness about the multiple disabling barriers that exist in society, and to work towards finding ways of removing these barriers. Ms Gauci recently successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis at the Centre for Disability Studies, University of Leeds. Her thesis is titled ‘Enabling Technology in the Workplace: Exploring the dis/ability-assemblage'.
