Community Action and Development University of Malta

Overview

Community Development is an interdisciplinary academic paradigm with a long tradition. The MA in Community Action and Development at the University of Malta also targets problematisation and deconstruction of prejudiced and stereotypical cultural notions and attitudes and social problems. It advocates a rethinking of citizenship: By drawing on emancipatory schools of thought, the programme of study challenges assumptions that citizenship 'just happens'. It also fosters critical engagement with social change and its academic study.

Career opportunities

Potential career and employment prospectives include community workers/developers, health workers, educators, cultural operators and mediators, opinion makers, researchers, policy-makers, officers working on local regeneration and gentrification projects and other executive and high administrative posts within:

• The European Union (EU) and EU agencies,

• State entities such as ministries, regional and local councils and other state entities, such as the National Commission for the Promotion of Equality, the European Union Programmes Agency (EUPA), the Malta European Union Steering Action Committee (MEUSAC), SAPPORT, APPOGG.

• Civil society entities that include NGO remunerated staff and volunteers, social partners (trade unions, employers' associations), social cooperatives, fair trade proponents, members and agents of political parties;

• The private sector, e.g. corporate social responsibility, technology with social purpose.