Robson holds a Doctor of Philosophy in applied social and economic research from the University of Essex in England, during which she worked on a United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund funded project which examined the correlates of young parenthood the European Union.
Robson is noted for her work on statistics, youth policy in a European context and the role of information technology and television on various social groups. Robson has worked as a Research Officer at the Institute of Social and Economic Research. She has worked with United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund and the United Kingdom Department of Health, examining the correlates of young parenthood the European Union and the differences in the socioeconomic disadvantages of early mothers by ethnic groups in Britain.
Robson joined the Department of Sociology at York University in 2004 and has held short post-doctoral positions at the Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning at the Institute of between 2006 and 2007, and The Geary Institute at University College Dublin between 2007 and 2008.
