The University of Malta’s Faculty for Social Wellbeing organised the first Dean’s Award ceremony, honouring the faculty’s best students. There were 12 candidates eligible for the awards, seven of whom got the Outstanding Master Students’ Award and five whose names were placed on the Dean’s List for excellence in their undergraduate studies.

The Faculty for Social Wellbeing was established by the University council in 2012 and brought together a number of entities which address different aspects of social well-being.

These were existing departments, institutes or centres of the University or were created with the establishment of the faculty.

The faculty comprises counselling, criminology, family studies, gender studies, psychology, social policy, community studies and the Disability Studies Unit.

This being the first Dean’s Award ceremony, students who graduated in 2012 were also recognised for excellence.

The Social Commitment Award, acknowledging students’ input in this area has been set up, but as there were no nominees this year, the faculty expressed confidence that this award would be given in a future edition of the Dean’s Award ceremony.