Stephanie Borg Bugeja is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Malta and a Chartered Educational Psychologist. She has worked for over 17 years across schools and residential care settings, supporting children and young people with diverse learning needs and complex life experiences. Her practice and scholarship are grounded in commitments to social justice, inclusive education, and the meaningful participation of children, families, carers, and educators in decision-making processes.

Stephanie’s research draws on post-structural and critical perspectives to explore questions of diversity, difference, trauma, and disability. She adopts qualitative, interpretive, and reflective methodologies to examine how educational practices, systems, and assumptions shape the lives of children in schools. Her work seeks to question taken-for-granted narratives and to open up more equitable, compassionate, and context-sensitive approaches to educational support.

She has over eight years of experience in higher education teaching and supervision. Stephanie is a Chartered Educational Psychologist with the British Psychological Society and a Registered Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (UK).