2018 Senior research fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
2008-09 Visiting professor, Dept. of Child and Youth Studies, University of Stockholm
2004-10 Visiting professor (professor II), Dept. of Educational Research, University of Oslo
2004 Visiting professor at the International Science Centre, Örebro University, Sweden
Since 2000 Professor and chair of media studies, University of Southern Denmark
1999 Bonnier chair, Dept. of Journalism, Media and Communication, Stockholm University
1990-2000 Associate professor, Institute of Film and Media Studies, University of Copenhagen.
1977-1990 Junior and senior research fellow at the University of Aarhus, the Danish Council for Research Policy and Planning, the Danish Research Council for the Humanities
Research stays
2002, 2005, 2017 San Cataldo, Italy
2004 Dept. of Comparative Media Studies, MIT
1997 Research visits at The Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania; Dept of History, Rutgers University; Groupe de recherche sur les jeunes et les médias, Université de Montréal; School of Communication, SFU Vancouver; Graduate Program in Communications, McGill University, Montreal
1977-81 Research visits at The Bodleian Library i Oxford, The British Museum, London; University of British Columbia, Vancouver; Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Birmingham University; Dept of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
Fields of Scholarship
Literature, culture and media studies
Cultural heritage studies
History
Philosophy and education
Information and communication technology
Honours and Awards
2014 Applied Research Award, International Communication Association
2014 Elected fellow, International Communication Association
2012 Knighthood, the Order of Dannebrog
2009 Prize for best Danish academic textbook: Mediehistorier [Media histories]], Samfundslitteratur
2005 Elected fellow, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
1990 Children's Literature Association prize for best scholarly work