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The alcoholic (Labour Party) Head of Department at the University of Malta

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Mark Camilleri
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UPDATED: I was told that this is the common office of the Department of Physics and is a well-known drinking-club. Although this is not the office of Emmanuel Sinagra, I was also reliably informed that he also has an alcohol cabinet in his office. Note, that staff at the University of Malta are not allowed to drink or carry alcohol during working hours on the premises of the University.

One of the most insane government departments in Malta is the University of Malta where meritocracy doesn’t exist and academia is ruled by nepotism and political and personal preferences.

This is the office of the Head of the Department of Chemistry, Emmanuel Sinagra with a fully-fledged alcohol cabinet.  Emmanuel Sinagra is a well-known Labourite and he can’t help but proving to us what a total joke this institution actually is.

Note that there have been cases where staff at the University of Malta were literally fired for having an alcoholic drink at work. However, Emmanuel Sinagra can do whatever he wants because he is a favorite of the Labour Party’s top brass.

His profile at the University lists 30 publications all of which were co-authored with someone else.

Comments

  1. Nuxellina avatar
    Nuxellina

    taghna lkoll, taghna lkoll.
    ? Gahan, repeat after me
    taghna lkoll, taghna lkoll

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  2. Edward Grima avatar
    Edward Grima

    All University lecturers are untouchable, regardless of the political party they support. There have been cases of physical violence and sexual harassment (which the University managed to keep under wraps) and little to no action was taken.

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  3. Banquo avatar
    Banquo

    Just to clarify, there is nothing wrong with co-authoring. In fact, some evidence indicates that co-authoring leads to higher quality research and more cited work. In the hard sciences, co-authoring is extremely common nowadays, because the ‘low hanging fruit’ of science have been picked and research and innovation is now ever more complex, requiring more brains.

    Sinagra’s real problems are threefold. First, he almost never is the lead author, which makes you wonder how he made it to head of department. Several of those works in the list may very well be him freeriding on other researchers’ work (basically, tagging his name to papers just because he is head of department).

    Second is the low volume of work. This is not always indicative of being a bad researcher, because quality trumps quantity, but, still, one would expect a long pedigree for any researcher to rise so high, and Sinagra seems to lack it.

    Third, the man looks like a clown. He is posting social media rubbish you would expect from a security guard at the university who gets bored sitting around doing nothing all day. Shamelessly presenting such a clownish personality is just embarrassing. His role is supposed to carry gravitas and inspire students to rise above wasting time on social media, not to mention he is supposed to be too busy to have time for such inanities

    Being a head of department is supposed to be very intensive. On top of regular lecturing and supervision of students writing their theses, one has lots of administrative and coordination work to do, and somehow, one has to try and squeeze in time for personal research.

    Just like in politics, though, several people at the university are only good for posturing, brandishing their fancy title about and drawing a good salary. Meanwhile, they contribute very little to the good of the community they are supposed to be dedicating their life to. They were chosen for the wrong reasons and are in it for the wrong reasons.

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  4. Dawn Tacmi avatar
    Dawn Tacmi

    It’s sad that a person of his position plays these facebook questionnaire games. 100% boomer.

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