Acknowledgements
We would like to thank all our colleagues at the University of Malta who have contributed a chapter to this book. This collaborative venture among academics across the Faculty for Social Wellbeing would not have been possible without the time and expertise of each author. We extend our gratitude to the anonymous reviewers whose feedback on each chapter was most useful, and to the Faculty’s Research, Publications and Scholarship Committee. Thanks are also due to Ms Lucienne Brincat and Ms Marija Grech, two of the Faculty’s administrators, for their valuable assistance in checking the references. The staff at Brill Sense have been very helpful throughout the whole process and it has been a pleasure to work with them.
We are particularly grateful to Mr John Martin Borg, one of Malta’s leading artists, for his generous contribution of the artwork on this book’s front cover.