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| My original field of study was medieval history with a focus on the vikings in Ireland. I published on the extensive taking of slaves in Ireland as a social and cultural phenomenon and on the national historiographies of the viking age in Ireland and Scandinavia.
From 1983 to 1985, I had a research fellowship from the Danish Research Council for the Humanities in Scandinavian maritime history in the early modern period.
In 1986 I became senior curator at the Fisheries and Maritime Museum in Esbjerg and was in charge of establishing the new permanent displays and an outdoor exhibition featuring a shipyard for wooden vessels.
In 1989, I was granted research leave from the Museum to complete my Dr.Phil. thesis "Kystfolk", which examined coastal communities, trade, fisheries and early tourism in North Denmark, South Norway and West Sweden as influenced by the emergence of nation states, 1550-1914.
From 1994 to 1999 I was affiliated with the University of Aarhus as a research professor in maritime and regional history. At the same time I headed a group of researchers and PhD students at the Centre of Maritime and Regional History at the Fisheries and Maritime Museum. My main research interest was now in the cultural history of coastal communities. The focus was on the decline of the fishing and shipping sectors, and how communities use environments of the past as cultural capital for the future development of fringe areas.
In 2000, I was appointed professor at the University of Southern Denmark. The research group followed me and was re-named the Centre of Maritime and Regional Studies as anthropology and archaeology researchers also became affiliated. Between 2002 and 2006, I also headed the PhD research school MAST, Research School for Studies in Marine and Coastal Environment, Heritage and Sustainable Tourism.
In 1999, together with Tim Smith, I took the initiative for the History of Marine Animal Populations project. HMAP is a 10-year project under the auspices of the Census of Marine Life and has some 100 participants from all continents and a total of 15 sub-projects. I chair the project which runs until the end of 2010. We aim to understand ocean life and environmental change in order to write the history of the underwater realm.
From 1999 to 2005, I was a member and for the last four years chairman of the Danish Research Council for the Humanities (Forskningsrådet for Kultur og Kommunikation). I was the first chairman of the European Network of Research Councils for the Humanities (later re-named the HERA network). Lately I have chaired the EU METRIS working group (Monitoring Emerging Research Trends in social sciences and the humanities).
In 2006 I was appointed Rector (and Professor of Environmental History) at Roskilde University. At Roskilde I encouraged the internationalisation and research of the university and introduced a new large-scale undergraduate program in design studies, integrating engineering and the arts.
In October 2008 I took up the position as Academic Director of The Trinity Long Room Hub. It is a unique opportunity to build a world-class centre for the arts and humanities at Trinity College Dublin. |
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| Member, Trinity College Research Committee |
2009- |
| Member of Steering Committee, Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), Landscape and Environment Programme
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2008- |
| Member, Census of Marine Life, Scientific Steering Committee (global)
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2000- |
| Chairman, METRIS, EU DG Research committee, Monitoring European Trends in Research in the Social sciences and the humanities |
2008-2009 |
| Member of Steering Committee, ESF-COST Interdisciplinary Initiative, A European Network of Networks: New Perspectives on Landscapes |
2007-2009 |
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| Marine Animal Populations: A New Look Back Iin Time in, editor(s)Alasdair D. McIntyre , Life in the World's Oceans: Diversity, Distribution, and Abundance , Oxford, Blackwell, 2010, pp3 - 23, [Poul Holm, Anne Husum Marboe, Bo Poulsen, Brian R. MacKenzie] |
Poul Holm (Chair), Nicolas Guilhot (Rapporteur), Dalina Dumitrescu, Gabriele Griffin, Arne Jarrick, Istvan Rév, Gulnara Roll, Daniel Smilov, Piotr Sztompka, Françoise Thys-Clement, Panos Tsakloglou, Luk Van Langenhove, Gerhard Wolf, METRIS, Emerging Trends in Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, European Commission, 2009, 1, 139
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Starkey, D. J., Holm, P., & Barnard, M. , Oceans Past: Management insights from the history of marine animal populations, London, Earthscan Research Editions, 2007, 223pp
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| van Voss, L. H., & Holm, P., Close encounters with the Dutch, Ricchezza del Mare secc. XIII-XVIII : Istituto Internazionale di storia economica "E Datini" Prato, Serie II - Atti delle "Settimane di Studi" e altri Convegni, 37, 2006, p147 - 178 |
Holm, P., Human impacts on fisheries resources and abundance in the Danish Wadden Sea, c1520 to the present, Helgoland Marine Research, 59, (1), 2005, p39 - 44
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