Timothy Allen was born in 1942 in
South Croydon,
Surrey, U.K, and since the 1970s was a permanent U.S. resident. He received his B.Sc. in 1964 and his Ph.D. in 1968, both at the University College North Wales of the
University of Wales, Bangor, in
North Wales. Starting in 1964, Allen worked for four years as a demonstrator at the School of Plant Biology of the University College North Wales. This was followed by two years as a lecturer in the Department of Biological Science at the
University of Ife in
Nigeria. In 1970 he went to the United States and became an assistant professor at the Department of Botany of
University of Wisconsin–Madison, being named professor in 1981. In 1980 he joined the faculty of the Department of Integrated Liberal Studies, and as member of the faculty of the Institute for Environmental Studies, Conservation and Land Management Programs. In 1988–89 he was a visiting professor at the Department of Anthropology and Cybernetic Systems at the
San Jose State University. He is also a member of the scientific advisory board of the Integral Science Institute. Timothy Allen's research interests haven been in the fields: theory of
complex systems and
ecology, in particular
hierarchy theory and problems of scale; epistemology for
biological systems; resource use and
biosocial dynamics; narrative in science. == Works ==