Career
Isham"s research interests in include point processes, spatial processes, spatio-temporal processes and population processes. She went to Imperial College London (Bachelor of Science, Doctor of Philosophy) where she was a student of a prominent statistician David Cox. She has been a professor of probability and statistics at University College London since 1992.
She was the president of the Royal Statistical Society for 2011–2012.
She was awarded its in Bronze in 1990.