[2] In her early years at Bristol, she developed the UK's first tomography laboratory within a forensic or physical anthropology department.

[4] During the 2011–12 academic term Robson Brown worked alongside geologist Nicholas Minter and biologist Nigel Franks to examine how nest architecture is influenced by factors both social and environmental.

[6] The 2015–16 academic year resulted in Robson Brown collaborating with the Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit at the University of Oxford to examine six mortuary chests within Winchester Cathedral.

[1] With her appointment, Robson Brown earned one of four APEX awards from the Royal Society to research how bones respond to stress.

[10] In 2019, Robson Brown and Heidi Dawson-Hobbis found that remains left behind in Winchester Cathedral belonged to 23 Anglo-Saxon kings and queens, rather than 11 people that was originally thought.