She is a former chair of the British Institute for the Study of Iraq and a Quondam fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
[4] In 1995, she received a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree from the University of Oxford for a thesis titled "Old Babylonian coefficient lists and the wider context of mathematics in ancient Mesopotamia 2100-1600 BC".
[1] From 2004 to 2013 Robson was based at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.
[6] Robson is the author or co-author of several books on Mesopotamian culture and the history of mathematics.
In 2003, she won the Lester R. Ford Award of the Mathematical Association of America for her work on Plimpton 322, a clay tablet of Babylonian mathematics; contrary to previous theories according to which this tablet was of number theoretic character or was trigonometric table, Robson showed that it could have been a collection of school exercises in solving right-triangle problems.