Research interests at the Department of Social Policy & Social Work

• Personal and professional development
• The practice and experience of social work supervision
• The regulation of the social work profession in Malta
• Leadership
• Management
• Emotional intelligence
• Resilience
• Self-care
• Teenage pregnancy
• Motherhood and mothering
• Refugees and asylum seekers
• LGBT
• Feminist research
• Sexual and reproductive rights and health
• Child protection social work
• Social work decision-making
• Children in alternative care
• The experience of live kidney donors
• Social policy theory
• Employment
• Social security
• Housing
• European social policy
• Family policy
• Long-term care
• Ethnography
• Policy advocacy
• Spirituality and psychotherapy/psychology/social work/wellbeing
• Reflective practice
• Relational supervision
• The personal and professional development of helping professionals
• Mindfulness and self-care/practice
• Personal and professional identity
• Supporting frontline practitioners, particularly social workers
• Resilience
• Domestic violence
• Poverty
• Social cohesion
• Social investments
• Disability and mental health with a special interest in supported living
• The economics of social care
• Benchmarking and quality management in social care
• Non-economic measures of development
• Forgiveness in therapeutic work
• Adaptive policy transfer
• Community and long-term care elderly
• Mental health
• Welfare state