COVEM Research Report 1
Milton, J., Bonello, C., Camilleri, R., Deguara, J. & Muscat, T. (2022). The COVID-19 and Education in Malta (Cov-EM) Study: Perspectives of University Students in Initial Teacher Education. Research Report 1. Malta University Publishing.
COVEM Research Report 2
Bonello, C., Camilleri, R., Deguara, J., Milton, J. & Muscat, T. (2022). The COVID-19 and Education in Malta (Cov-EM) Study: Perspectives of Early Childhood Educators. Research Report 2. Malta University Publishing.
COVEM Research Report 3
Camilleri, R., Bonello, C., Deguara, J., Milton, J. & Muscat, T. (2022). The COVID-19 and Education in Malta (Cov-EM) Study: Perspectives of Primary Educators. Research Report 3. Malta University Publishing.
COVEM Research Report 4
Deguara, J., Bonello, C., Camilleri, R., Milton, J. & Muscat, T. (2022). The COVID-19 and Education in Malta (Cov-EM) Study: Perspectives of Parents with Children in Early and Primary Education. Research Report 4. Malta University Publishing.
COVEM Research Report 5
Muscat, T., Bonello, C., Camilleri, R., Deguara, J., & Milton, J. (2022). The COVID-19 and Education in Malta (Cov-EM) Study: Perspectives of Leaders in Primary Schools, Kindergartens and Childcare Centres. Research Report 5. Malta University Publishing.
Milton, J., Deguara, J., Bonello, C., Camilleri, R., & Muscat, T. (2025). Reconfiguring Initial Teacher Education Through COVID-19 Times: Student Teachers’ Perspectives and Experiences in Malta. In Deguara, J., Chikwa, G., Rajah, E. & Zhao, Y. (Eds.) Innovations in Pedagogical Practice and Curriculum Development in Higher Education: Contemporary Global Perspectives. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-
Deguara, J., Milton, J., Camilleri, R., Bonello, C., & Muscat, T. (2024). How COVID-19 made inequalities visible: A chronicle of parental struggles in securing educational support and opportunities for children amid a pandemic. Malta Review of Educational Research, Vol 18 (2), p225-253. https://www.mreronline.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/MRER-18-2-01-Article-1-Josephine-Deguara-et-al.pdf
Muscat, T., Bonello, C., Deguara, J., Milton, J., & Camilleri, R. (2024) Home -Sweet-School: Insights from School Leaders on Leading from Home during the Pandemic, p 213-238. In Cutajar, M. & Bonello, C. (Eds.) Educational Leadership in Transition: Innovative Perspectives and Practices for the 21st Century in Malta and Beyond. Malta: Malta University Distributors.
Bonello, C., Deguara, J., Milton, J., Camilleri, R., & Muscat, T. (2023). A Kaleidoscope of Play and Learning in Online Spaces during COVID-19 Times: Insights from Early Childhood Educators. International Journal of Childhood Education, 4(1), 29-49. https://doi.org/10.33422/ijce.v4i1.401
Deguara, J., Milton, J., Camilleri, R., Bonello, C., & Muscat, T. (2023). Uncovering and tackling educational inequalities caused by the pandemic: Parents’ perspectives for equitable education in Malta. Journal of Education and Practice, 14(12), 13 – 25. DOI: 10.7176/JEP/14-12-02.
Camilleri, R., Deguara, J., Bonello, C., Milton, J., & Muscat, T. (2023). Exhausted or empowered? Primary school educators’ views and experiences of educational transitions during a global emergency. Education 3-13, 1-16. DOI: 10.1080/03004279.2023.2296125
Spiteri, J., Deguara, J., Muscat, T., Bonello, C., Farrugia, R., Milton, J., ... & Said, L. (2022). The impact of COVID-19 on children’s learning: a rapid review. Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 1-13.
Bonello, C., Deguara, J., Farrugia, R., Gatt, S., Muscat, T., Milton, J., ... & Spiteri, J. (2021, July). Exploring The Influence of COVID-19 on Initial Teacher Education in Malta: Student Participation in Higher Education. In 7th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’21) Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/HEAd21.2021.12794
Bonello, C., Farrugia, R. C., Gatt, S., Deguara, J., Milton, J., Muscat, T., ... & Spiteri, J. (2020). Tracking the birth and growth of an online collaborative research team during COVID-19: a narrative inquiry of eight female academics in Malta.
Camilleri, R., Deguara, J., Milton, J., & Muscat, T. (2022). Book Review. Boys, early literacy and children’s rights in a postcolonial context. Postcolonial Directions in Education, 11(2), 330- 333. https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/104461/3/PDE11%282%29BR2v2.pdf
Camilleri, R., Deguara, J., Milton, J., & Muscat, T. (2022). Review: Boys and literacy in Malta – is the system failing them? The Sunday Times of Malta, August, 7, 2022. https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/review-boys-literacy-malta-system-failing-them.972434
Milton, J., Deguara, J., Camilleri, R., Muscat, T. & Bonello, C. (2025, June 10-14). Multilingual pedagogies in transition: Educator insights from early and primary settings in Malta. International Association for Intercultural Education (IAIE), Budapest, Hungary.Camilleri, R.,
Bonello, C., Milton, J., Deguara, J., & Muscat, T. (2025, June 10-14). Accommodating linguistic diversity in early childhood and primary education: A systematic review of literature. International Association for Intercultural Education (IAIE), Budapest, Hungary.
Milton, J., Deguara, J., Muscat, T., Camilleri, T., & Bonello, C. (2025, 28th May). Bridging Language Gaps: A survey of multilingual educational practices in early and primary education in Malta. University of Malta Research Expo 2025, Malta.
Camilleri, R., Bonello, C., Deguara, J., Milton, J., & Muscat, T. (2025, 28th May). Addressing linguistic diversity in Malta: Teacher education and classroom pedagogy in early and primary education (Poster Presentation). University of Malta Research Expo 2025, Malta.
Deguara, J., Milton, J., Bonello, C., Camilleri, R. & Muscat, T. (2024). Navigating educational inequalities beyond the pandemic: Parents’ perspectives on ensuring a more equitable education for children. ConferenceCES - Children, Education & Society. 27 – 29th June, Istanbul, Turkey.
Milton, J. (2023, November). Assessment and Learning during Covid-19 times: Perspectives and experiences of university students in Initial Teacher Education in Malta. Association for Educational Assessment – Europe Annual Conference: Assessment reform journeys: intentions, enactment and evaluation. University of Malta, Malta.
Milton, J., Deguara, J. (2023, October). Multilingualism in the early years” Pre-service teachers’ experiences of linguistic diversity. 4th International Conference on Multilingualism and Multilingual Education (ICMME4), University of Malta, Malta.
Deguara, J., Milton, J., Camilleri, C., Bonello, C., & Muscat, T. (2023, August 30th – September, 2nd). “Me in quarantine”: young children making meaning through drawings. 31st European Early Childhood Education Research Association Conference: Children’s curiosity, agency and participation: Challenges for professional action and development. Lisbon, Portugal.
Deguara, J. (2022, August, 23 - 26). “Now they are firing at each other”: Exploring young children’s drawings as an arena for play. 30th European Early Childhood Education Research Association Conference: Cultures of Play: Actors, Affordances and Arenas. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. https://www.eecera.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Abstract-book-EECERA-2022-V15082022.pdf
Bonello, C., Camilleri, R., Deguara, J., Milton, J., & Muscat, T. (2022, August, 23 - 26). “A Kaleidoscope of Play and Learning in online spaces: Early Childhood educators’ perspectives during COVID-19 in Malta. 30th European Early Childhood Education Research Association Conference: Cultures of Play: Actors, Affordances and Arenas. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. https://www.eecera.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Abstract-book-EECERA-2022-V15082022.pdf