After the normal procedure of applicants the panel in Iceland was unanimous that Freydis Vigfúsdóttir PhD student at University of East Anglia and Bjarni Már Magnússon PhD student at the University of Edinburgh should be granted since they fully met the Chevening criteria.

Ambassador Ian Whitting held them a reception on this occasion where their family and friends from the academia attended. He said that in the ever changing world the bridges that students build during their studies were one of the most important aspects in public diplomacy. And of course that he was delighted that they had chosen the UK for their studies.

Freydís Vigfúsdóttir is undertaking her PhD studies in Animal Ecology studying populations’ limitations in arctic seabirds where the Arctic tern is the study. Freydis grew up in the Westman Islands and since she was a little girl she has been fascinated by the animal and marine ecology and her main interest are seabirds and the marine environment.  Not strange since the seashore was her “play ground” growing up close to the shore.

Bjarni Már Magnússon will start his PhD at University of Edinburgh; a 3 year course in the Law of the Sea and his studies is on The work of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf from a legal perspective with special emphasis on its implications for coastal states claims to the continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean.

 
The following areas of studies were in priority for the academic year 2009/2010:
Applied sciences, Climate change, International Affairs and Sustainable Energy.

 

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