| 1970-1973 | BA (Hons.), Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, England |
| 1973-1975 | Graduate Teaching Fellowship and Research Fellowship, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Victoria, Canada |
| 1975 | MA (by thesis: Sex, Marital Status and Suicide) |
| 1975-1977 | Research Officer, Higher Education Research Unit, University of Sheffield, England |
| 1977 | Sessional Lectureship, Department of Social Anthropology and Sociology, New University of Ulster at Coleraine |
| 1977-1979 | Fixed-term Lectureship, Department of Social Anthropology and Sociology, New University of Ulster at Coleraine |
| 1979-1983 | Lectureship at the University of Maryland European Division, Heidelberg |
| 1983-1984 | Project director at the University of London Institute of Education |
| 1984-1991 | Tenured University Lectureship in the Departments of Sociology of Education and Curriculum Studies, Institute of Education, University of London |
| 1990 | Ph.D. (Beyond Occupational Choice. A Study of Gendered Transitions), Faculty of Economics, University of London |
| 1991-1992 | Senior Research Fellow at the Graduate College Lifecourse and Social Policy , University of Bremen, Germany |
| 1992-1994 | Fixed-term Professorship at the Institute of Education, University of Marburg |
| 1995 | Project Director, Vocational Counselling for Women Returners study commissioned by the European Commission |
| 1996-2000 | Principal Administrator at the DG Education and Culture, European Commission |
| 1999 | Habilitation (recognition of competence for full professorship in Germany and Austria), Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Wuppertal, Germany |
| 2001-2003 | Research Professorship (part-time) at the Department of Education, University of Newcastle |
| 2003-2004 | Professor (part-time) at the Department of Educational Sociology, Danish University of Education in Copenhagen |
| since 2004 | Appointment to tenured Full Professorship for Education and Generation at the Institute of Educational Sciences, University of Innsbruck |
| since 2005 | Director of the Institute of Educational Sciences at the University of Innsbruck |
| since 2006 | Coordinator of the newly-founded University Research Centre Education - Generation - Life-course, University of Innsbruck |
| since 2009 | Appointed to the Austrian Council of Universities of Applied Sciences (FHR) |
