Before joining the University of Malta's Department of History as an Assistant Lecturer in late Modern and Contemporary Maltese, European and Global History, Ms Azzopardi was a History Assistant Lecturer at the University of Malta Junior College.
Ms Azzopardi read History at the University of Malta (2007-2010), obtaining a First Class Honours Degree with a dissertation on the Grand Harbour Extension Project of the 1860s. This was followed by a Master’s degree in Global and Imperial History from the University of Oxford (2011-2012). Her dissertation explored the policy of imperial benevolence which the British applied in Malta during the 1930s in the context of the process of de-Italianisation, Anglicisation and the loss of self-government. All throughout, the focus of her studies and research has been Maltese History during the British period, and the theory of Global History.
Ms Azzopardi is currently reading for a Ph.D with the Department of History of the University of Malta. ). Her research is on modernity, change and continuity in post-colonial Malta, with a focus on the experience of women between 1964-1987.
Ms Azzopardi has been an active member of the MHS since 2015 where she primarily organised the monthly public lectures. She was also in charge of the organisation of three editions of the biennial History Week (2015, 2017, 2019) and of the biennial Publication Awards (2018, 2020). She has also coedited the Proceedings of History Week 2015 (2018) and Storja (2023). Presently, Ms Azzopardi is the vice-president to the MUHS.
She has published works in Melita Historica, and other local journals and publications. Ms Azzopardi's latest publications, appearing in two separate books, are the chapters ‘A Mediterranean Island at a Crossroads: 1950s Malta in Empire’ and 'Women at Work: Female Labour in Post-WWII Malta'. She also makes regular appearances on radio and TV programmes as guest speaker on a variety of historical themes related to her fields of research and interest.
Ms Azzopardi is also one of the founders, and the current chairperson, of the Gozo-based environmental ngo Għawdix.
