Godfrey Baldacchino PhD (Warwick), BA (Gen.) PGCE (Malta), MA (The Hague) is Canada Research Chair in Island Studies and Full Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI), Canada. He is also Visiting Professor to the Department of Sociology at the University of Malta, Malta and Chairman of the Board of its Centre for Labour Studies. He was Member and Chair of the Malta Board of Cooperatives (1994-2003) and a core member of the Malta-European Union Steering and Action Committee (MEUSAC). He is currently Vice-President of the Prince Edward Island Association for Newcomers to Canada.

As Canada Research Chair in Island Studies at UPEI, Professor Baldacchino is advancing a critical, comparative and interdisciplinary agenda which includes the following research themes:

He is also supporting UPEI's Master of Arts Degree in Island Studies.

Other areas of interest include: brain rotation, immigration, labour relations, human resource management, adult education, worker empowerment and the development of cooperatives.

As of 2009, Prof. Baldacchino has (co-)authored 19 books, reports and monographs; (co-) edited or guest edited another 17 and has, since 1993, over 80 peer-reviewed journal articles or book chapters to his credit.

         
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