Yosanne Vella is an associate professor in history pedagogy in the Faculty of Education at the University of Malta. She is a history teacher trainee and she lectures on various topics on history teaching. She was recently on sabbatical leave in Australia where she gave papers to undergraduate and masters’ students as well as to fellow academics on 'teaching change and continuity in history to secondary school children' and on 'using history teaching to combat Islamophobia'. The presentations were given at Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, at Victoria University’s Centre for Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing and at the Faculty of Education of Newcastle University in New South Wales.

She was the Vice-Chair of the Education and Culture Committee of NGOs at the Council of Europe up to 2014, she is one of the editors of the online textbook Historiana published by Euroclio, the European History Educators’ Network, and she is one of Euroclio’s ambassadors. She is also on the editorial board of a number of journals including Heirnet’s International History Teaching Journal. She has published various books, textbooks, papers and teaching resources on history education, as well as a number of history papers on women in Malta in the eighteenth century. She is the Vice-President of both the Malta History Society and the Maltese History Teachers’ Association.

Author email: yosanne.vella@um.edu.mt