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Name: Peter Plant
Specialisation: Careers Guidance and Counselling, Career Development, Training of Teachers and Counsellors, Labour Market Policies, Education and Training Policies
Birthdate: 20 July 1948
Nationality: Danish
Position: Professor
Address: 98 Torupvejen, DK-3390 Hundested, Denmark.
Tel.: +45 26306657 (home & office)
Languages: Danish Mother tongue
German Fair
English Excellent
Key Qualifications
Prof. Dr. Peter Plant has worked in the field of careers education and counselling since 1974 in schools, higher education institutions and the employment service in Denmark. He has acted as a researcher and consultant for the Commission of the European Communities (Bruxelles), for the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP, Berlin), for the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, (Dublin), for OECD, Paris, for the Danish Employers' Organisation (DA, Copenhagen), and for private publishers specialised in educational and vocational guidance. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Danish University of Education (DPU, Copenhagen), the Guidance Research Unit. He is engaged in research in educational and vocational guidance and training, both nationally and at a European level. Thus, he has worked as a researcher in Europe, and as a trainer of guidance staff in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Latvia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Canada, Australia, and the USA, in a number of cases in the capacity of a Visiting Professor.
Education
1994 Ph.D., Royal Danish School of Educational Studies, Denmark
1988‑89 SYO/C‑kurs, Guidance Research Diploma, Stockholm, Sweden
1984‑89 M.Ed., Royal Danish School of Educational Studies
1978‑79 Vocational Guidance Officer, Directorate of Labour, Denmark
1974‑76 Careers Guidance Teacher Diploma, Royal Danish School of Educational Studies
1969‑73 Teacher, Jonstrup Statsseminarium, Denmark
Professional Experience
2014-date Professor: University of South-East Norway
2014-date External Examiner, University of West Scotland
2004-2009 Editor of two Danish professional periodicals on guidance: www.vejledningsviden.dk and www.vejlederforum.dk
2001-2004 Visiting Professor, Syddansk University, Odense
1997-date International Fellow, National Institute for Careers Education and Counselling, Cambridge, UK
1996 Visiting Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada, and Griffith University, Australia
1996-1997 Reader, The Open University, Milton Keynes, England
1994-96 Visiting Professor, Danish School of Public Administration, Denmark
1990‑2015 Associate Professor, Danish University of Education, Denmark
1979‑90 Lecturer at the Royal Danish School of Educational Studies, Denmark, part‑time
1977‑90 Vocational Guidance Officer, AF‑Hillerød, Denmark (Employment & Careers Service), part-time
1973‑79 Teacher, Holmegårdsskolen, Karlebo Kommune, Denmark
Selected Assignments
2015-2017 Expert member of TRIAS project on Workplace Guidance, Erasmus+ project, Austria
2015-2016 Expert Member of Governmental Committees on Lifelong Career Guidance, Norway
2010-11 Reviewer for Clearinghouse Denmark on Review on Effects of Guidance
2010-2011 Expert partner, NVL project Users’ Voice, Nordic Council of Ministers
2010 Expert for European Training Foundation, ETF, on career education in Kyrgyzstan
2008-2015 Expert for the European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network on Quality Assurance and Evidence in Career Guidance
2007-2008 Expert partner, NVL Guidance Research on impact studies, a Nordic Council of Ministers project
2007-2008 Expert partner, Insyn, on workplace guidance and learning, a Nordic Council of Ministers project
2005-2008 Expert partner for ‘Cross’, developing national guidance policies, Bulgaria, an ESF project
2005-2006 Consultant for developing guidance competencies, Slovenia, an ESF project
2005-2006 Consultant for developing guidance competencies, Latvia, an ESF project
2005-2007 National Expert for ‘Third Age Guidance', a Leonardo project
2004-2007 National Expert for ‘European Guidance and Counselling Research Register’, a Leonardo project
2004-2007 National Expert for ‘Gender, Etnicity & Guidance', an Equal project
2003-2006 National Expert for 'Workplace Guidance 2', a Leonardo project with Glasgow University
2001-2003 National Expert for 'School, Gender & Career', an Equal project
2001-2002 Expert for OECD, 'Career Guidance Policy Review', a comparative study across 14 countries
2001-2002 National Expert for 'Workplace Guidance', a Leonardo project with Glasgow University
2001-2002 National Expert for 'ICT in Adult Guidance' (EGA), a Grundtvig project
2000-2001 Curriculum Designer for 'Opening Doors' - a web-based training module on Access to Vocational Guidance for Adults in Risk of Social Exclusion, a Leonardo project with Glasgow University
1997-98 National Expert for FEDORA/LEONARDO study on 'New Skills for Vocational Guidance in Higher Education'
1997 Visiting Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada & Griffith University, Australia
1992‑96 National Consultant for Eurocounsel, research programme on Counselling and Long‑Term Unemployment, European Foundation, Dublin
1992‑93 Central Team Member, EC‑Commission, study on Educational and Vocational Guidance in the European Communities, Bruxelles
1991 Central Team Member of CEDEFOP's study on Professional Profiles in Guidance, Berlin
1990 Project leader, CEDEFOP, study on Transnational Guidance in the EC, Berlin
1990 Visiting Fellow, NICEC (National Institute for Careers Education and Counselling), Cambridge
1985‑87 Central Team Member, EC‑Commission, study on Educational and Vocational Guidance Services in the EC, Bruxelles
1979-1990 Co-ordinator of the Regional Career Guidance Network, Frederiksborg Amt, Denmark
Professional Memberships
2008-2009 Member of the Danish National Council on Adult Guidance
2005-2009 Member of the European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network
2004-date Member of the Danish National Forum for Educational and Vocational Guidance
2004-date Lifetime Honorary Member of the Swedish guidance counsellors’ association
2001-2005 Member of the Expert Group on Lifelong Guidance, EU-Commission, Bruxelles
1997-date International Fellow, NICEC (National Institute for Careers Education and Counselling), Cambridge
1994-1996 Member of the Governmental Committee on the Curriculum for Guidance in Schools, Denmark
1994‑1995 Chairman of the Danish Joint Council of Associations for Ed. & Vocational Guidance, FUE
1994‑1995 Member of the Danish National Council for Educational and Vocational Guidance, RUE
1992‑2008 Vice-president of the International Association of Educational and Vocational Guidance, IAEVG, Berlin
1990-91 Member of the board of the European Association of Careers Guidance in Higher Education, FEDORA, Belgium
1982‑84 Chairman of the Danish Vocational Guidance Officers Organisation, DEF, Denmark