Prof. Andrew Azzopardi

Prof. Andrew Azzopardi

Prof. Andrew Azzopardi

  Dip.Soc.Work.,B.Ed.(Hons),M.Ed.,Ed.D.

Associate Professor

Room 114
Humanities B (FEMA)
University of Malta
Msida
  +356 2340 2918
Andrew Azzopardi is an Associate Professor and Dean of the Faculty for Social Wellbeing and former Head of the Department of Youth and Community Studies.
He is also Chair of the Platform for Migration and Chair of the Cottonera Resource Centre.
His lecturing and research focus on inclusive education, sociology, critical pedagogy, disability politics, youth studies and community development.
He has contributed extensively in a number of other lauded journals, and has published various texts on disability politics, young people, and inclusive education. He is a Member of the Editorial Panel of the highly acclaimed International Journal of Inclusive Education, and co-editor of Inclusive communities: A Critical Reader (2012). Azzopardi has also edited Youth: Responding to Lives – An International Reader (2013), co-edited Perspectives on wellbeing – a reader (2019) and also edited societas.expert, amongst other.
He is an established broadcaster anchoring a current affairs program on 103 Malta's Heart/newsbook.com.mt
  • Social movements
  • Community development
  • Social policy
  • Youth studies
  • Youth activism
  • Disability studies
  • DBS2206 - Building Inclusive Communities
  • DOC6006 - Convincing and Debating
  • SWB1001 - Foundations of Social Wellbeing
  • SWB5002 - Interdisciplinary Approaches to Mental Well-Being
  • YTH2011 - Young people and politics
  • YTH2013 - Young People and Social Inclusion
  • YTH5004 - Young People and Social Inclusion
  • YTH5005 - Young People and Human Services: An Interagency Approach
Sample of Recent Publications:

Grech, P., Azzopardi, A., & Borg, S. (2023). An account of loneliness while living with an
eating disorder. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 00, 1–6.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jpm.12967

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