As of 2024[update] he is Scientia Professor at the Centre for Marine Science & Innovation at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.

[citation needed] After completing his PhD England took up a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, in Toulouse, France, from 1992-1994.

He then returned to Australia to take up a research scientist position at CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, before moving to the University of New South Wales.

[3] England established the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales with Andrew Pitman in 2007.

[citation needed] England's work relates to the global ocean circulation and its influence on the atmosphere, ice, and climate, with a particular focus on ocean-atmosphere processes in the tropics, the circulation in both the ocean and atmosphere in the Southern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, and coupled ocean-ice-atmosphere feed-backs around Antarctica.