Event

The Department of Management Studies hosts a Public Lecture themed, The Sport Success of Iceland: How a Small Nation Achieved International Success with featured speaker, Prof. Vidar Halldorsson, University of Iceland and Sport Consultant.

Find out more about how Iceland’s national football team attracted international attention at the 2016 European Championships and the 2018 World Cup, despite having a population of only 340,000.

The lecture takes place on January 18 at 2pm at the Teaching and Learning Complex, Lecture Theatre A. 

To secure your space please email, Calisia.Gregoire@sta.uwi.edu or call 662-2002 ext 83724.

About Professor Vidar Halldorsson

Prof. Halldorsson has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Iceland and a Masters in Sociology of Sport at Leicester University, England. Currently he holds the position of Full-Time Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Iceland. He has been a sociology professor since 2003.

One of Vidar’s specialty is Sport Research. His research has mainly focused on: a positive development through youth sports and sport achievement, where he authored the book: “Sport in Iceland: How small nations achieve international success” (Routledge, 2017). He is currently working on another book from a sociological perspective on achievement titled “Sport Team Dynamics and Performance: A sociological approach” (Routledge, expected 2020).

Further, since 2003, he has been a prominent sport consultant in Iceland where he worked with all the main sport governing bodies on sports policy, sport clubs and sport teams, as well as some of their national teams in football, handball and basketball in recent years, on sport achievement.

See further information here: www.uni.hi.is/vidarh.