Welcome speech by Dr Sandra Scicluna, Dean of the Faculty for Social Wellbeing University of Malta

Abstract

Looking at today’s programme the topic that resonated with me the most was that of interpersonal violence – probably because my area is criminology! I would like to start by sharing a piece of my own journey - a journey that began with a single assignment in a psychology course as an undergraduate student, and might I add a rather naïve one. One of my assignments asked us to go into the field and ask questions to stakeholders. I do not recall why, but I chose victims of domestic violence. [excerpt]