Lecturer in IR ,Aberdeen University, 1967-70
Succession of posts in the Politics Dept at Warwick University culminating in Chairman of the Dept ,1970-90
Salvesen Professor and Director of the Europa Institute ,Edinburgh University ,1990 -94
Director Institute for German Studies and Professor of German and European Politics ,Birmingham ,1994 -2008 with break in 2005-6
Hon Vice President of the International Association for the Study of German Politics ,2000
Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Association for the Study of German Politics,2004
Lifetime Award in European Studies by the University Association for Contemporary European Studies ,2007
Special Recognition Award of the Political Studies Association for’ground breaking work on German Politics ,British German relations and European Integration ‘, 2011
Co founder and co editor of ‘German Politics ,1991 -2001
Co editor of Journal of Common Market Studies ,2003 -2008
Co edits The European Union Series ,Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics and New Perspectives in German Political Studies for Palgrave
Bulmer,S and Paterson,W.E (2010), Germany and the European Union :From Tamed Power to Normalized Power.,International Affairs ,86 ,1051-1073
Paterson ,W.E (2010) Does Germany Still have a European Vocation?., German Politics ,19,41-52
Paterson ,W.E (2010) Strategy and Politics in the Blair Era in Raschke,J. and Tils ,R. Strategie in der Politikwissenschaft :Konturen eines neuen Forschungsfelds ,Wiesbaden ,VS Verlag ,pp 301 322
Paterson,W.E (2010) Foreign Policy in the Grand Coalition ,German Politics ,19 ,497 -514
Paterson,W.E(2011) The Reluctant Hegemon? Germany Moves Centre Stage in the European Union,Journal of Common Market Studies ,Annual Review ,49,59 -77
Paterson,W.E (2012)The Political Afterlifes of Geman Chancellors in Theakston,K and De Vries ,J (eds) Former Leaders in Modern Democracies: Political Sunsets ,Basingstoke,Palgrave ,pp 101 -118