Godfrey Baldacchino
Godfrey Baldacchino is a Maltese and Canadian social scientist. He is Pro Rector and Professor of Sociology at the University of Malta. Between 2016 and 2020, he was the UNESCO Co-Chair in Island Studies and Sustainability at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. He is former Director of the Centre for Labour Studies at the University of Malta and is the current chairman of its board. With Alexander Gatt, Baldacchino founded the Students Astronomical Circle in 1978. In 1984, he was elected as the first President of The Malta Astronomical Society which resulted from the merger of the SAC and the Astronomical Association of Malta. He was inscribed as Honorary Life Member of the Malta Astronomical Society in 2015.
Career
He served as Canada Research Chair at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada, for the full double term of 10 years.Baldacchino is founding Vice-President of the University of Malta Academic Staff Association and was elected as member of the Council of the University of Malta for the period 2001–2003. As Chair of the Malta Board of Cooperatives, Baldacchino presided over a doubling of registered cooperative societies.
He has provided consultancy to the Malta Prime Minister and various other Ministers on: the self-management system at Malta Drydocks, the Student Stipend Scheme, the workings of the Malta Employment and Training Corporation, a code of practice for worker-directors, and the Planning Council's plans for the South of Malta. He has also offered his consultancy services to the General Workers' Union, the Malta Employers' Association, the Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association and the Unjon Haddiema Maghqudin. Baldacchino was elected President of the International Small Islands Studies Association in 2014 and Chair of the Scientific Board of RETI, the Network of Island Universities, in 2015. He set up Island Studies Journal, which he edited from 2006 to 2017; he also set up Small States & Territories, an on-line open access journal, in 2018.
Baldacchino has served as visiting professor to tertiary education institutions in Australia, Barbados, Fiji, Iceland, Mauritius, Seychelles and Sweden. He has also been invited to deliver papers, guest lectures and/or keynotes in Åland, Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Philippines, South Korea, St Lucia, Taiwan, Trinidad & Tobago, the UK and USA. His academic work has appeared in French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Swedish. With Elaine Stratford and Elizabeth McMahon, he is Editor of the Rethinking the Island book series with Rowman and Littlefield International.
Publications
Books written
- Solution Protocols to Festering Island Disputes: 'Win-Win' Solutions for the Diaoyu / Senkaku Islands, London: Routledge , 230pp
- Introducing Social Studies: A Maltese Reader 3rd edition. Malta: Miller Distributors, 2011.., 399pp
- Ninvestigaw is-Socjeta,. 3rd edition. Malta: Miller Distributors, 2011..
- Island Enclaves: Offshoring Strategies, Creative Governance and Subnational Island Jurisdictions. Montreal QC: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010. ; 978-0-7735-3743-9, 301pp.
- Global Tourism & Informal Labour Relations: The Small Scale Syndrome at Work. London: Mansell, 1997..
Books edited
- . Place Peripheral: Place-Based Development in Rural, Island and Remote Regions. St John's NL: ISER Press, 2015. 340pp..
- Archipelago Tourism: Policies and Practices. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015.. 248pp.
- The Political Economy of Divided Islands: Unified Geographies, Multiple Polities. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013,, 256pp
- Independence Movements in Subnational Island Jurisdictions.London: Routledge, 2013..
- A Taste of Islands: 60 Recipes and Stories from our World of Islands. Charlottetown PE: Island Studies Press, 2012., 264pp.
- Island Songs: A Global Repertoire. Lanham MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011,, 297pp.
- Extreme Heritage Management: Policies and Practices from Densely Populated Islands. New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2012., 274pp.
- Island Futures: Conservation and Development across the Asia-Pacific Region. Tokyo, Japan: Springer, 2011., 182pp.
- Remote Control: Governance Lessons for and from Small, Insular and Remote Regions. St John's NL: ISER Press, 2009,, 309pp.
- The Case for Non-Sovereignty: Lessons from Sub-National Island Jurisdictions. London: Routledge. 2008,, 176pp.
- Pulling Strings: Policy Insights for Prince Edward Island from other Sub-National Island Jurisdictions. Charlottetown, PEI, Island Studies Press, 2008,, 198pp. Book Launch video here:
- Bridging Islands: The Impact of Fixed Links. Charlottetown, Canada: Acorn Press, 2007,, 284pp.
- A World of Islands: An Island Studies Reader. Canada and Malta: Institute of Island Studies & Agenda Academic. 2007., 640pp.
- Extreme Tourism: Lessons from the World's Cold Water Islands. Oxford: Elsevier Science, 2006., 291pp.
- Managing People in Malta: Case Studies in Local Human Resource Management Practice. Malta: Agenda Publishers and Foundation for Human Resources Development, 2003.
- Educational Management and Planning in Small States: Concepts and Experiences. London: Commonwealth Secretariat, 2002., 305pp.
- : Lessons from the Political Economy of Small Islands: The Resourcefulness of Jurisdiction. Basingstoke and New York: Macmillan and St Martin's Press, 2000., 267pp.
- Competing Strategies of Socio-Economic Development for Small Islands. Charlottetown, Canada: Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, 1998.
- Beyond Schooling: Adult Education in Malta. Msida, Malta: Mireva, 1997.
- Cyprus and Malta on the Threshold of the European Union: Challenges to Workers and Trade Unions. Nicosia, Cyprus: Government Press, 1996.
- Co-operative Ways of Working. Msida, Malta: Workers` Participation Development Centre & Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 1994.
- Maltese Society: A Sociological Inquiry. Msida, Malta: Mireva, 1994..