Career
She is Emeritus Professor of Economic and Developmental Demography at the University of London. She was Director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies from 2003 to 2010. From 1993 to 1998, she was Professor of Social Statistics at City University London.
In 1994, she was appointed Deputy Director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies.
From 2000 to 2011, she was director of the United Kingdom"s Millennium Cohort Study. In 2003, she was promoted to Director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, and served in that role until 2010.