Foreword

Abstract

This was a particularly eventful period for the Centre. Professor Edward Zammit retired from Chair of the CLS Board in 2009 after having been at the helm of the Centre since its inception in 1981. Professor Godfrey Baldacchino became the new Chair in 2010. Mr Saviour Rizzo, who had been the Acting Director of the CLS since 2003, retired in 2009, and I was appointed as its new Director. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Professor Zammit and Mr Rizzo for the work that they have carried out throughout all these years and for the contributions they still give to the Centre. Ms Anna Borg, who joined the Centre in 2008, received Council appointment as assistant lecturer in 2010, and later on in the same year, Mr David Parnis also joined the Centre as assistant lecturer. With these two appointments, for the first time in its history, the staff of the Centre comprised three full-time academic members.