Profile of Professor Frances Camilleri-Cassar
Frances Camilleri-Cassar is an Associate Professor of Policy and Gender in the Faculty of Social Wellbeing University of Malta, Malta; and Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Sociology and Social Policy University of Nottingham, UK.
Throughout her twenty-two years in academia, Prof. Camilleri-Cassar has researched and published widely, and routinely presents papers to scholars and more general audiences, both in Malta and abroad. Her PhD thesis, completed without corrections, was later peer reviewed and published as a book. Areas of expertise connect with colleagues working within a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields, and her research interests have now moved on to critical policy analysis that addresses economic and social inequalities. Current European collaboration includes research papers and analytical report writing for the European Commission as expert on gender equality.
Besides her research output, Prof. Camilleri-Cassar has a sustained record of teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels at both the University of Malta and the University of Nottingham. In 1995, she set up the Gender and Development course (previously known as Women’s Studies) for the University of Malta, where she delivered lectures, organized seminars, and coordinated the course until 2006.
Recent events of significance are subsequent nominations by the US Embassy in Malta for The Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s International Council on Women’s Business Leadership in 2011; and for the Women in Leadership Programme under the International Visitor Leadership Programme in 2010.
Between 2000 and 2004, Prof. Camilleri-Cassar was appointed adviser on gender issues to the Minister for Social Policy and Deputy Prime Minister, and as Minister’s delegate on the Commission for the Advancement of Women. During this time, she was instrumental in compiling the first, second and third periodic reports for Malta under the UN Convention for the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women. She also served as Chairperson for the Co-ordinated Response Team Violence against Women under the Ministry for Social Policy (2002 - 2005); and as Chairperson for the Committee on Gender Issues for the University of Malta (1996 – 1999).
