Heading research at the Danish Institute for Sports Studies. Specializing in international elite sport, the business and economics of sport, and various other interesting sport topics.

My work at the Danish Institute for Sports Studies were centred on three main topics: 1) research in the field of sport management and the economics of sport2) research in the field of sports sociology3) communication of research results to the publicI have published (edited and co-edited) five books: One on Danish professional soccer (2005), one on Danish sport in the experience economy (2008), one on Danish Team Handball (2008), one on systems theory and sport (2010), and one on sport management (2017). I completed a research based evaluation on the Danish elite sport organization, and equivalent of UK Sport, Team Danmark in 2008. Furthermore I participated in the international study; SPLISS (www.spliss.net).

Managing research projects within the fields of sports sociology and economics.

Teaching and research position as Adjunct Associate Professor, NTNU Business School.

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Teaching courses in sports economics and sport management.

My work as PhD scholar at University of Southern Denmark contained a variety of tasks, such as teaching, research and communication. A brief summery of my thesis is provided below. Title: Professional Team Sports Clubs: Emotional Attachments or a profitable business? (Danish title: Kommercielle sportsklubber - følelser eller forretning?)The peculiar logics of professional team sports have puzzled economists for years. In their classic papers on the specificity of sports business, Rottenberg (1956), Neale (1964), Davenport (1969) and Sloane (1971; 1980) took the first steps towards what has become a distinct, established discipline of sports economics. Since then, academic knowledge of the sport business sector has been continuously refined. However, contemporary scholars examining professional team sports have failed to develop a satisfying understanding of the emotional aspects of the sector and their effects on club ‘profitability’.To address some of these aspects, this thesis deals with the commercialization of Danish football, Danish team handball and European soccer, focusing in particular on Danish professional team sports clubs (PTSCs). Drawing on an argument from systems theory (Luhmann) which suggests that sport serves as a mirror system in (late-) modern society, several improvements are suggested in order to develop a consistent theoretical perspective capable of explaining the paradox that seems to be a fundamental and distinctive trait of the sector: Why do European professional team sports clubs chronically operate on the brink of insolvency without going out of business? Why is the survival rate of PTSCs so high when they perpetually generate losses? The answers – laid out in a model of PTSC characteristics – are given by pointing to the fundamental emotional side of the mirror function that finds its material representation in organizational systems such as a professional team sports club.

Arbejdet som Kulturkonsulent i Roskilde Kommune omfattede primært udviklingsopgaver på kultur- og idrætsområdet samt udvalgsbetjening (byråd og kulturudvalg) og analyser af konkrete emner. Blandt andet arbejdede jeg med byens politiske strategier inden for musik ('Musikbyen Roskilde'), kultur generelt samt visionerne om at knytte Roskilde Universitetscenter tættere til byen ('Universitetsby Roskilde'). Desuden var jeg sekretær og tovholder i det stort anlagte tværkommunale projekt: 'Det Kulturhistoriske Landskab', der søgte at gøre Lejre, Hvalsø og Roskilde til omdrejningspunkt for et regionalt Nationalpark-projekt (se www.kulturnatur.dk). Endelig arbejdede jeg med en del udviklingsprojekter i forhold til byens idrætsliv, herunder medvirkede jeg til oprettelsen af Elite Sport Roskilde, hvor jeg fungerede som sekretær for bestyrelsen og som sekretariatsleder.

Design, tilrettelæggelse, gennemførsel og ledelse af "Elitekarriere på spil. En analyse af pigers elitetilværelse mellem samfundsmæssige og idrætslige normer." Rekvirent: Team Danmark.Maja Plum, Stinne Lyager Bech og Ulrik Almlund deltog som medarbejdere på projektet.

Konsulentopgaver for offentlige og halvoffentlige organisationer samt private aktører. Jeg startede som studentermedarbejder, men blev fastansat som konsulent efter afslutningen af mit speciale, der blev afleveret i september 2001.

Mit arbejde som forskningsassistent bestod i gennemførsel, analyse og afrapportering af en stor survey omhandlende danske subeliteidrætsudøveres forhold (sammen med Anders G. Nielsen). Forskningsprojektet blev gennemført under ledelse af Professor Klaus Nielsen, Roskilde Universitetscenter. Team Danmark stod for finansieringen.