Professional Career
Tansley taught at University College London from 1893 until 1907. In 1907 he took a Lecturer position at the University of Cambridge. During the First World War, with very little teaching going on at the university, Tansley took a position as a clerk with the Ministry of Munitions. In 1923 he resigned his position at Cambridge and spent a year in Vienna studying psychology under Sigmund Freud. After four years away from a formal academic position in botany, Tansley was appointed Sherardian Professor of Botany at the University of Oxford, where he remained until his retirement in 1937.
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